Richard Hogan: A good enough parenting job is perfectly fine

Of course we will get things wrong, and of course our children will make mistakes. But we have all come to fear mistakes. Terrified we may be getting it wrong.

Richard Hogan: "Parents often sit in my clinic and say ‘I shouted at my child last night do you think I have damaged them for life?’ I always respond saying the same thing 'Well, if they haven’t heard a roar out of you from time to time before they are 18, you have damaged them, because real life isn’t going to be perfect and without the odd roar'."

What happened to fun?

At the very least, what happened to failing or making mistakes? The moments in childhood where things went absurdly wrong. Do you remember them? The fun you had when you didn’t do what you were supposed to do?