Why Pokémon Go really is a national health service | Gaby Hinsliff

What looks like a silly mobile phone game is in fact a parenting holy grail: a reason to get out in the fresh air and move

If parenting is one long process of discovering that it doesn't really happen like they say in the books, then school holidays are proof positive that Swallows and Amazons was fiction. Every July starts, at least in this house, with starry-eyed delusions about a summer spent messing about on rivers, climbing trees and having wholesome adventures. Or failing that, perhaps a summer of cheery educational play as per the more optimistic newspaper supplements, where the kids thrill to your kitchen science experiments and treasure hunts round National Trust properties.

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