I'm a failure as a parent and a human being. In that order?
My daughter keeps on asking me difficult moral questions like "why don't we let that man over there live in our house" about the Big Issue seller.
She's trying to figure it all out.
But I can't answer her questions the way she wants me to. No one could.
What do you say?
We sit down and watch The Simpsons together. Seems sensible to me.
Now that she's growing, she's developing a concept of self, her place in the world and where others fit in. Her school is probably helping her to discover different ways of thinking about things. Since 1988, schools have been required to promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
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