To show that you truly care, you listen.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.