On complaining about parenting after struggling to get there

Is that OK, or...?

I met a stranger in the park last week. It’s always a lovely shock when anyone recognises me from my column, but I’ve recently moved house so I also used this encounter to mine for information about how to be Optimum Parent in my new hood. We quickly established that our kids go to different branches of the same nursery, oh how lovely! So that we can he…