This is going to sound like a mean question, but when it comes to encouraging self reliance in your children, how should you go about it? How easy to do too much for them and make them reliant on you?
A few months ago I wrote this blog post about school dinners v packed lunches. It was, essentially, my personal manifesto as to why I believed that packed lunches were the way forward. If I were a politician, I’d have to concede that I’ve made a policy u-turn. I take it all back, I’m a