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I hope you enjoy your mat leave, Ella. It's a special, if very demanding, time when children are tiny. As everyone keeps telling you, I'm sure.

Children need dark stories to warn them of the dangers that lurk around every corner. Or they did, when they ŵent out by themselves, 'free-ranging' children as they're now called. So unusual they have to have a name, whereas once (in my 1950s & 60s childhood) it was normal. They needed to know about dangers posed by strangers, not wandering too far into the forest etc.

Now all they need to know is the danger of the Internet. Tragic.

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