With a total of four girls to deal with in our household (including a set of twins, one of which is me), it’s perhaps no surprise that our father was happy to delegate most of the domestic discipline duties to Mum.
As well as a talent for producing only girls, Mum and Dad must have also had a very fertile period, as there is barely 18 months between the twins and my elder sister, and only two years between us and the family’s baby girl.