Richard Hogan: Why resilience matters when your child doesn't get everything they want

"Why do we feel the need to try and satiate every little whim our child has? And what would it mean for us to say, ‘no,’ a bit more to our children?"

Richard Hogan: The person who gets everything in childhood, struggles in adulthood to make and keep friends. Photograph: Moya Nolan

Words are like fashion, they come and go. Some hit and become popular while others don’t really stand a chance and fade away.

How many of us use ergo anymore? It has been consigned to a different time, perhaps a time of Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr Watson.