Lindsay Woods: We are navigating the battleground that is primary school

My first experience of competitive parenting occurred at an altogether innocuous dinner party, writes Lindsay Woods. 

As fairly new parents, we were pumped for a night of stimulating adult conversation which did not revolve around our children’s bowel movements or the adventures of an obnoxious cartoon pig.

After just one sip of syrupy goodness, it became abundantly clear that there was just one topic of merit up for discussion for the duration of the evening: our offspring. We made it through the starters relatively unscathed; some general enquiries as to our children’s gender (boyand girl), ages (two years and two months respectively) and a text message from my husband sat directly next to me asking, “Do you think any of them watch Game of Thrones?”