Welcome to week two of the school holidays where parents are expected to find something for the kids to do in a post-Royal Show world. It turns out that letting your kids get bored is actually really good for them. Proper experts have weighed in on this and they asserted that boredom helps kids to build a tolerance for less than optimal situations. Bored kids develop the resilience to sit through stultifying meetings or wait at the licensing centre for the term of their natural lives. As proof, I can survive the dullest of meetings — and I’ve sat through a few — because my school holidays were mostly interminable.