Last week Garnet turned three. He’s not a hundred per cent ok with that. The boy has a complicated relationship with the ageing process. He likes being three, but he wants to be a three-year-old baby. In all the games he and his friends play, he must play the baby. The baby pirate. The baby brother in Peter Pan. Baby Cottontail in Peter Rabbit. He’s dipping his toe into the world of superheroes with a character he has invented called – you guessed it – Superbaby. He gets stra

Here’s the first in a new occasional series in which I will ask myself questions and then reply. I’ll be my own agony aunt. Today’s question concerns parenting and road safety: Dear Jess, Is it safe to allow my not-quite-eighteen month old to ride a tricycle on a public road while she is fast asleep? Yours, uncertain of the rules of the road, Jess Dear Jess, Not really, no. It’s actually rather dangerous. She was probably swaying quite a lot, am I right? You probably had to k