Parenting is tough.

Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.

Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.

It's very special having a new little girl.

We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.