Learner Dad: What is the perfect age, that time when we don’t want to get any older? 

Age is a lot more than just a number, particularly when you’re growing up

My daughter is watching YouTube Kids, where American teenagers show you how to bake a cake. Picture: iStock 

My son listed off the shoe sizes of the other kids in his class this morning. It brought me back.

I remember being like that at age eight, comparing myself with other guys in my class. There’d be consternation when another boy got a bicep or an early-onset moustache. Comparing yourself to other people is part of the human condition – there is no point in fighting it.