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How to cope with bored children

There have probably never been so many organised activities on offer to entertain children during the summer holidays, but would children be better off left to their own devices? Justin Webb finds out what the best methods are for entertaining a bored child, as he talks to Dr David Whitebread, Cambridge developmental psychologist and Zoe Chesher, from the Active Training and Education Trust which runs children’s summer camps.

First broadcast on Today, 11 August 2016

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