Why should parents fear school holidays?

We really live in the age of contradictions. While modern parents do not want a two-month holiday, students love it.

Why else do they burn their dorms? When we were young, we hated holidays; it was time to work and for parents to get free labour. We milked cows, planted crops, harvested them and delivered them to the market, often under adverse weather conditions like rain. Grazing was a treasured occupation, less straining than farming. Cutting down trees for firewood was fun.