The job of a parent is to bring up well-adjusted children, not be ‘down with the kids’My mum had superhuman powers when I was a kid. When I was about eight, a friend and I would play spies on our council estate. We’d use the poorly designed walkways as our lookout posts, and the labyrinth of corridors were the motorways for our high-speed chases.The fun we were having was obviously lost on the angry older lady who lived on the corridor we raced down.