In Confessions of a Bad Mother, Stephanie Calman described how she brought up her children 'wrong'. Now she reveals her peculiar inability - but one that secretly, we all share - to grow up.
At forty, she finds she has done a lot of Grown-Up things - buried her father, got married, had children - without actually becoming an Adult.
Despite physically feeling her age, she is still emotionally bottom of the class and scared of many totally normal things, including fancy-dress parties, spiders, happy endings, vicars, groups of any kind, and the dark. Maybe life should be like Kumon Maths: you're not allowed to go onto the next stage until you've mastered the previous one.
Brave, candid and hysterically funny, Stephanie Calman gives hope to bad parents and failed grown-ups everywhere. Read it and know that you are not alone.
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