What children need

""Children need the things they always have. But apart from food and clothes, everything else they really need is free.

Love, discipline, play and talking; these things all cost nothing.

The recession might be a handy reminder of what makes good parents." And a happy child."

Words from Sue Palmer (author of toxic childhood) and Rossie Millard (Daily telegraph columnist).

Love, discipline, play and talking all require that fixed resource ... Time... we chid ourselves when we face our own mortality; when we are I'll; or relationships have moved on; or our children have grown up, because we didn't "spend" more time with the people we care for - because we didn't have time!