Lindsay Woods: 'Kids sense when you need to use the loo, wash or mainline a packet of Jaffa cakes in the darkness of the utility room'

Watching a movie about being a parent, offers an entirely different perspective when you actually become one.

Mainly, it translates into an acknowledgment that the movies lied to us. For the most part, they package it as a veritable ‘rom-com’ of parenting.