These last few weeks before the summer holidays however are a complete and utter spectacle of my ineptitude in the parenting stakes

IT HAS begun. No, not the final battle to determine who will once and for all ascend to The Iron Throne. Moreover, I am speaking of the commencement of The Decay.

You see, after your children return to school post mid-term, it is just one steady decline into the territory of “really?” As in, “do you really need a new pencil? Will the splinter inducing, half-inch stub not see you out until the holidays? Really?”