Dad's World: Who really is doing the cajoling?

Jonathan deBurca Butler on the joys - and travails - of fatherhood.

BUT I don’t want to go to school. School is silly — Fionn is up and he’s not in a happy place. Upstairs his mother tries her best to cajole him out of bed.

Eventually she succeeds but still the tears come streaming down his face as he descends the stairs like a jaded orang-utan.