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What to buy the child who has it all

A subscription to the Telegraph's new educational site, GridClub, is the perfect way to satisfy your child's need to have fun while learn something useful along the way!

Bah! Humbug! It’s Christmas time again, the season of goodwill and of excessive spending on children who seem to have it all, and what’s more, take it all for granted. In my day, you hear yourself say, wishing you could eradicate these awful clichés, we were grateful for a few modest gifts and a tangerine at the end of the stocking.

So what do you buy the little darling who already has the IPhone, the XBox, the Nintendo Wii, a laptop, a desktop, several email accounts and an unlimited capacity to make you feel out of touch with the brave new world? What indeed! It’s no use buying records or CDs as they download music now to the IPod you bought last year. And do they need you to buy books if they are reading e-books online? Maybe clothes are a safe bet, but be sure to choose the right designer label.

Let’s face it, whatever you do think to buy, you know they will ask you what it cost and then announce that, if only you had asked them, they would have found it much cheaper on eBay. Sometimes you must wonder about turning back the clock and buying one of those old-fashioned but timeless gifts. You know, the mammoth jigsaw puzzle, the board game, the climbing frame, the mechano set, the artist pack, a recorder ….. time was when a Roy Rogers ten gallon hat for the boy and a pretend make-up set for the girl would have jolly well sufficed. And no confusion about who was getting what in those days – boys and make up? Never.

Well, the times are changing and it is surely a necessity for the year ahead that you parents (and grandparents, aunts and uncles) box clever, play to the children’s strengths and give them a real challenge. This Christmas, buy your beloved ‘digital native’ (a phrase used by techies to describe today’s child growing up fully at ease with the new technologies) a membership to the Telegraph’s new learning website, GridClub. It’s fun, engaging, challenging and designed to appeal to every child, and to the child in every adult!

It has won a BAFTA, among other awards, and is really aimed at the seven to twelve year old although there is much to attract the five and six year old. The content covers all areas of the National Curriculum and more, including healthy lifestyle, art, design, music, French and Spanish, as well as English, maths, science, history and geography. There are hundreds of activities. You can have a free trial, but take it on the record that hundreds of thousands of children enjoy GridClub already and learn at the same time.

Not only does GridClub give children a rich and rewarding diet, it also offers parents a tangible benefit for that monthly broadband connection charge. In the jargon we do all understand, membership of GridClub is a win-win. And if that weren’t enough, GridClub has some short, animated movie introductions to classic literature, including the seasonal A Christmas Carol, just to get you all into the festive spirit. Bah! Humbug!

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