OF all the jobs I’ve had in my career, parenting has been the most challenging, demanding and confusing.
For starters, it never seems to flamin’ end. Even when the blighters become adults you are still in that perpetual hamster wheel of guiding, advising and educating. Or handing out dosh.
But it’s those early years that are so tricky, when you’re setting out boundaries, all while trying to make life as easy for yourself as possible.
This week I read about a mum of three who appeared on GMB in 2020 and told how she decided to have no set bedtime for her children, who were under the age of ten.
They can tuck themselves in whenever they like between 9pm and 1am.