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As the whole of the travel business looks set to review

child care on holiday, I keep wanting to shout out "Bring on the Grannies". Grannies are a ferocious deterrent against any shenanigans,

from the kids themselves or any unwelcome interlopers. My own Mum sat outside the hotel room on a hard-backed chair while I snuck off for a swim in the midday sun. She

wasn't going to change nappies or make up bottles, but as a static benign

presence with a watchful eye, she more than earned her keep. Forget the

gum-chewing, bored teenagers that make up the "nannies" or "kids

club entertainers" in resorts, they are more interested in

the earrings you are wearing

than most of the children in their care. My three have always refused to be palmed off in these brightly painted prisons, catching the whiff

of unwanted kids and crying to be let out immediately.

Foreign nannies in resorts think we British are bonkers anyway for dumping our kids in clubs, Southern Europeans would never dream of

such a thing.

Bring on the Grannies

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