Parenting comes with plenty of expected milestones doesn't it. Those tentative first steps, that precious first day of school, their first trip to town with friends.
There are so many events that can leave you as a parent feeling proud of their independence, yet equally so powerless.
I wasn't quite expecting that at the ages of 14 and 12, I would be watching my kids whizz around a racing circuit driving a £240,000 Lamborghini.