Learner Dad: I’d take pigs’ knees if it meant I could keep up with my kids on a walk

There was a time when we would have talked about music or Manchester United. Yesterday, we talked about our knees

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Here’s my advice to anyone thinking of having kids. Make sure your knees are up to it. Not just now, but for at least the next 15 years.

I was 45 when our eldest child came along, which is old, but not that old these days. Those early parenting days involved a lot of kneeling down, to change nappies on the floor, to clear up some vomit, or just to kneel there and have a 10-minute nap because no one is looking. My knees were just about up to it then, although I can remember the sharp shock of pain I’d get in the right one if I stayed at ground level for too long.