‘Parents should give themselves a break’: the guilt-free children’s TV guide Rebecca Seal
There can be few parents who haven’t, in the last 11 months, snapped the television on in desperation, so that it can do a bit of childcare, or bring a temporary halt to the endless requests for food. In the first lockdown, with no formal home-learning to do, my children watched hours of telly, sometimes on iPads, while their father and I attempted to work. And when we weren’t worrying about the pandemic, or money, or everything, we worried about whether it was melting their brains.
Parents should give themselves a break : the guilt-free children s TV guide
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Burlington County loses longtime farming agent Ray Samulis
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A memorial service for Ray Samulis of Roebling, a professor and agricultural agent for Burlington County for more than four decades, will be Friday.
Samulis, also a Jersey sweet corn expert who helped develop and improve varieties enjoyed by consumers and well-known in the farming community, died last month after complications from heart surgery. He was 69.
Samulis was a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor and the Rutgers Agricultural Extension Service agent for Burlington County for 41 years before retiring in 2017.
He had gained statewide recognition for expertise with sweet corn and was responsible for establishing the Rutgers extension service’s comprehensive sweet corn program for field research, training seminars and marketing research. He also was a home vintner who earned awards for his homemade wines.