Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?