Parents have a remarkable knack of fooling themselves about entitlement, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
I lie to my kids all the time, without thinking, in large ways and in small. Yes, I tell them, I will organise a play date with Sammy . No, your sister didn’t mean that . Yes, everyone dies, but children don’t die before mummies, and mummies only die when they’re really, really old, so there’s no point in worrying about it now. And yes – of course, a million times yes – that picture of a beetle is the best beetle drawn since a cave-child first drew a beetle.
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