It provides entertainment and makes a nice change with mother (6)
I believe the answer is:
cinema
'it provides entertainment and' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'a nice change with mother' is the wordplay.
'change' is an anagram indicator.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'mother' becomes 'ma' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'nice' is an anagram of 'cine'.
'cine'+'ma'='CINEMA'
'makes' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cinema that I've seen before include "Films, collectively" , "Movie theatre" , "Filmdom" , "(Building for) film" , "Picture-house 96)" .)