‘I would rather stick spoons in my eyes than play with my kids’

When Louise Westra’s youngest son Tyler, four, asks Mummy to roll toy cars on the floor with him, she says: ‘No, thank you.’ Politely, she explains that she is busy reading a book and he should wait until Daddy gets home instead. While spurning a child’s pleas for company might wrack some mothers with nagging guilt, … Read more