Thank you for your lovely responses everyone. Support in these forums can be truly overwhelming.

This parenting gig is quite hard. Half the time you don't even know if you're "doing it right" and the other half you hope you're doing it right.

I am trying not to use the word 'naughty' Miss B. I wince each time it slips out of my mouth. I shall add it to my list of words for the swear jar!