Can I drive?” my six-year-old, vibrating with possibility, asks as he tugs on his seatbelt and reaches for the steering wheel. “No! That’s silly. You’re only six.” “Can I have a cookie?”

The clatter of the dice rolling across the Monopoly board fills me with exhilaration. I loved playing Monopoly – rolling the dice for opportunity, collecting groups of two or three coloured cards,

My head snaps like a flag in the wind as indecisions storm in my mind. “Should I do this? Or not?” “Is this the right thing to say or is that?” “What