One of the great challenges of parenting is finding genuine all-family entertainment. Over-prioritising your own desires just means days at National Trust houses where the kids spend the whole time threatening to crayon priceless paintings and whining constantly about being bored, before finally losing it in the gift shop.
Over-prioritise theirs and you’ll find yourself at yet another soft-play centre from which you will invariably emerge broken, holes in the knees of your trousers and a chunk of your self-respect forever lost somewhere in the ball pit.
