Learner Dad: 'It can be heartbreaking watching your kids try make friends on holiday'

“Does anyone want to be my friend?” roared my five year old as he walked into the playground at our French campsite on holidays. So much for organising a play-date.

I was going to tell him to stop, that he was making a fool of himself and desperation is never a good look, just ask anyone who saw me in a night-club during my 20s. It turns out he knew what he was doing. Loads of kids in the playground already knew him by name and we’d only been there for three days.