Letters & opinion
How to get out the door in 32 easy steps (teen/tween edition)

1) Wake up as soon as alarm goes off at 7am. Feel amazing level of organisation and achievement until 15-year-old pokes head into your room and tells you they need to be at school by 8am, and also that your bed-hair looks particularly bad this morning. “Do you think Dad starts work at 5am so he doesn’t have to see you this early?” she asks.

2) Sit on the edge of the bed and wonder if this is true.

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