Parents, determine to make your children obey you, though it may cost you a lot of trouble, and cost them many tears. Let there be no questioning, and reasoning, and disputing, and delaying. When you give them a command, let them clearly see that you expect them to do it.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They’re heavy to lift up when they’re throwing tantrums.

‘Motorcycle Diaries’ had the best costumes – that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It’s all for the kids.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she’d get one-syllable answers.