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Jonathon Brown’s ‘bored' kids driving him crazy in isolation

“I’m bored” has become the catchcry of kids all over the world, with COVID-19 isolation reducing entertainment options to almost nothing but what’s in their own home. Footy great Jonathon Brown isn’t having it.

Jonathon Brown, wife Kylie and their children — the kids are “bored” in isolation.
Jonathon Brown, wife Kylie and their children — the kids are “bored” in isolation.

Footy hard man Jonathan Brown is applying some tough love with his parenting skills, threatening to take to his kids’ bikes with an angle grinder if they don’t get their act together.

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Jonathon Brown, wife Kylie and their children — the kids are “bored” in isolation.
Jonathon Brown, wife Kylie and their children — the kids are “bored” in isolation.

As home life, school life and work life blend into one during the time of corona, nerves and patience can naturally get tested when there are three bored children cooped up in the house.

“I said yesterday I have had enough of this bored talk,” Brown told his Nova FM co-hosts.

“My three children are 10, 7 and 5 and the two eldest are painful when it comes to being bored.

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“I said if I hear the word bored one more time I am not going to argue with you, I am just going to walk out into the shed, I’m going to get the angle grinder and I am going to cut your bikes in half.”

We are all dealing with isolation madness in different ways.

Jonathan and Kylie Brown — sans kids.
Jonathan and Kylie Brown — sans kids.

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