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July Kids: In the company of Santa and Uncle Shrimp

Sarah B Haider
July 5th, 2017


This article is more than 7 years old.

(photo: Torsten Dettlaff)

Stimulate your scientific imagination and knowledge with this new film from the National Geographic Channel.

The film shows how science and technology make the invisible visible and how it affects our lives in ways we find hard to imagine.

Learn about different phenomena that take place too slowly or too fast for the human eye to see, and discover what lies hidden in invisible light rays.

Everything in this film is recorded with special recording techniques that have never been seen on the big screen before.

To listen to the English narration of the film, headphones are available at the ticket booth for 20kr.

Marionette Theatre
ongoing, ends Aug 20, 14:00-15:00, every day except Mon; free adm; marionetteatret.dk

The poetic puppet show When The City Sleeps will tell you what happens in the city when everyone is asleep. The show is for kids 2 years and up and can be understood by everyone, regardless of the language they speak. (SBH)

Uncle Shrimp
July 19, 13:00; Bakken, Dyrehavevej 62, Klampenborg; free adm

Bakken invites you to a children’s entertainment show featuring some of the biggest stars from Ramasjang. Enjoy the humour of Uncle Shrimp along with musical performances that your entire family can sing along to. (SBH)

Jazz for Kids
July 10-14; most shows 11:00 or 13:00; Lindevangsparken, Frederiksberg; free adm

Jazz singer and songwriter Kira Martini and her big band are among the performers of special jazz concerts for kids, featuring brand new children’s songs based on Kira’s own childhood stories.

World Santa Claus congress
July 24-27, 10:00-16:30; Bakken, Dyrehavevej 62, Klampenborg; free adm; bakken.dk

Meet more than 100 Father Christmases from different countries as Bakken celebrates the 60th anniversary of the World Santa Claus Congress. Meet Santas from Japan, Germany, the US, Denmark and more.

Family Run
Aug 27; Charlottegårdsvej 4, Hedehusene; free adm to children’s race; hedelandsdysten.dk

Come and join Denmark’s most family-friendly race in which you can compete against your friends, parents and siblings in a 5 km race. For serious adults, there are 10 and 21 km races.


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A survey carried out by Megafon for TV2 has found that 71 percent of parents have handed over children to daycare in spite of them being sick.

Moreover, 21 percent of those surveyed admitted to medicating their kids with paracetamol, such as Panodil, before sending them to school.

The FOLA parents’ organisation is shocked by the findings.

“I think it is absolutely crazy. It simply cannot be that a child goes to school sick and plays with lots of other children. Then we are faced with the fact that they will infect the whole institution,” said FOLA chair Signe Nielsen.

Pill pushers
At the Børnehuset daycare institution in Silkeborg a meeting was called where parents were implored not to bring their sick children to school.

At Børnehuset there are fears that parents prefer to pack their kids off with a pill without informing teachers.

“We occasionally have children who that they have had a pill for breakfast,” said headteacher Susanne Bødker. “You might think that it is a Panodil more than a vitamin pill, if it is a child who has just been sick, for example.”

Parents sick and tired
Parents, when confronted, often cite pressure at work as a reason for not being able to stay at home with their children.

Many declare that they simply cannot take another day off, as they are afraid of being fired.

Allan Randrup Thomsen, a professor of virology at KU, has heavily criticised the parents’ actions, describing the current situation as a “vicious circle”.

“It promotes the spread of viruses, and it adds momentum to a cycle where parents are pressured by high levels of sick-leave. If they then choose to send the children to daycare while they are still recovering, they keep the epidemic going in daycares, and this in turn puts a greater burden on the parents.”