I know the part of the day that a lot of parents find most stressful is bedtime, but that’s not the case for me. For me the most stressful part of my day is the school run.

I don’t mind the morning school run, you see JR walks really, really well to school and when JR walks well so does TP. Walking back home after dropping him off TP usually walks well too, so again thats not a problem.

My problem comes when we collect JR from school you see he either runs off in front of the pushchair way too far for my liking or he dawdles behind and as our school run takes us either along a canal path or alongside a very busy main road this terrifies me greatly. He has to pick up every stick, pebble or leaf he sees, and has to touch every wall fence or other item he sees.

A walk that can take 25 minutes with TP and the pushchair suddenly takes 1 hour, and every night I dread it.

However this past 2 afternoons MR M&TTT has been on his days off from work and as the weather has been okay instead of jumping in the car we decided to walk to collect JR, and I have to admit its been fantastic with the 2 of us JR has walked lovely, and only ran off on a couple of occasions. Now if only i could get him to walk so well when i’m on my own i’d be able to breath a sigh of relief.