Jennifer Horgan: We all love our kids but sometimes they should be seen and not heard

Why bring small children to an adult hotel, a space created as a getaway, a haven of silence, far removed from the reality of life and adult responsibilities?

Writer Fay Weldon, who died earlier this year, said the greatest advantage to being childless must be that you get to go on believing you’re a nice person.

Children certainly change us — but do they change our behaviour so drastically that we must admit to being less than nice? Well, maybe.