But do I need to be worried about the effects that, you know, threats and promises that I don't follow through on can have on them? Because I assume they know I'm just messing around and I'm not actually going to leave them at nursery for the weekend.

Yeah, and I think, you know, there's so much pressure on parents now to get it right, to say the right thing.

And I think there is no such thing as the perfect parent or the perfect parenting script.

I actually think modelling our mistakes are actually really important.

It's how you then respond to them.

So, for example, when I threaten to leave my children and go on the school run without them, this is particularly going to impact more sensitive kids who actually are terrified of being left.

So my response to that situation was to calm myself down, have a chat with myself, come back and say my favourite phrase of all, let me try that again.

But should parents ever be worried? And when is the right time to seek help?