I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?