competitive parenting

In which I get thoroughly upset about the fact that the people running our country appear to think it is more important that young children can recognise a fronted adverbial than it is for them to have food when they're hungry; Beth terrorises the Ocado man; I talk a lot about why you shouldn't let glitter covered pinecones make you feel like shit; and we have a general reminder that parenting is not a competition, and that even if Competitive Dave has made a life sized effigy out of organic vegetables: you are still doing an amazing job.