Julie Jay: My toddler believes the word ‘no’ is an invitation to start negotiating

With missiles flying around my kitchen left right and centre, I feel like Packie Bonner in Italia 90

It’s hard to discipline a two-and-a-half-year-old because they find any chastisement hilarious. File picture: iStock 

MY TODDLER is completely out of control: I say this with the deepest, truest love.

He is a tiny but terrifying nemesis and he is two and a half. While Denmark attempts to stave off an American invasion by increasing its military presence in Greenland, I, too, will be relying increasingly on Nato to protect me from the missiles being fired at me from all directions.