There is no end to the woes mothers face come summer vacation. All the children are at home; if they’re not in front of the TV, then they’re either up the guava tree in the front yard or on top of the compound wall, and what if one of them falls and breaks a hand? Or leg? But it’s not just that, no: it’s all the crying, the laughter, the meting-out of punishments based on some arcane system of justice from another world.
