As solutions go, it was drastic. But the Spurdell family were desperate. While Neil, a deputy headteacher, spent long hours at work, his wife Kate was becoming ground down by the pressures of bringing up four small children.
She felt anxious, guilty and frustrated as she tried to juggle entertaining the couple’s three sons and daughter with keeping the household chaos at bay.
“I was barely functioning,” she says. “I just felt I was forever putting out the washing, with one child on my hip, and always feeling guilty that I wasn’t playing enough with them.
“Sometimes I would sit down with them watching CBeebies and I would think, ‘Oh dear, how many times have we watched this today?’.”
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