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Should we be sporty sideline parents?

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Lord Coe has said that parents should be given time off work to watch their children play sport as a way of encouraging Britons to become more active.

Lucy Cavendish, journalist, novelist and mother of four, and Tim Dowling, Guardian journalist and father, discuss if children actually want their parents shouting on the sidelines in the first place.


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