Growing pains: are perfect families a recipe for stress?

Vanessa Thorpe speaks to three couples about the exhaustion of being modern parents - and expert Tony Crabbe offers his suggestions It was tough finding time to write this piece, what with the children, the emails, the laundry, the meetings, the phone calls. Want to know more about my struggle? No, I bet you don't. We have all listened to frenzied itineraries from parents who also hold down a job and who evidently hope to impress and inspire sympathy in equal measure. The truth is that many of B...