Julie Jay: It’s easy to think you know better from the sidelines of parenting

I once imagined a lot of baking in my parental future, but I'm not baking again with the children until one of them is old enough to go to the shop to buy the ingredients and to drive there

There is little that is more stressful than attempts at baking when parenting young children. Picture: iStock

MY LIFE is essentially divided into phases: BC (before children) and AD (after delivery).

Before having children, I had a completely different idea of how I would raise my children should I ever be lucky enough to have them.