How to deal with the terrible tweens

Obama’s daughters famously rolled their eyes at their father’s attempts to crack a joke on stage. Dave Robbins knows how Barack feels — his daughter is 10 and already he’s been dubbed an ‘embarrassing dad’. 

MY DAUGHTER is 10. Going on 17. Sometimes the eye-rolls and sighs seem to be coming from someone much older.

And the next moment she is wrapping up her Build-A-Bear in blankets and telling me: “He doesn’t like this time of year.”