One of the best things about toddlers is the way they constantly remind us that life isn’t as difficult as us adults tend to make it out to be.

For example yesterday I turned on the hot water tap to run a bath for the baby and the toddler only to discover that cold water was coming out. The hot water service wasn’t functioning in the manner in which one would expect it too - namely making the water hot.

So not one to panic I dashed outside to the fuse box to make sure that it wasn’t something simple that even I could fix. Sadly I discovered that no matter how simple it was, I was even simpler when it came to mechanical things. There is a very good reason I have a desk job, I am mechanically incompetent it turns out, as I couldn’t even work out exactly what I was looking at in the fuse box.

But panic not, time for plan ‘B’ thought I. Plan B when you are someone like me consists of logging on the the internet, grabbing the mobile phone and dialing a professional. Outsourcing is the way to go when it comes to these tasks, and how do I know this, because Little Miss has lead by example.

Every time something proves too difficult, or even slightly difficult, the toddler, as all all toddlers do, demands that someone else do it for her. And the quicker the better.

Sure I didn’t have a sobbing tantrum rolling around on the floor demanding that everything be done for me. But I did realise that it would be so much easier if someone else did it for me.

So that is today’s lesson - whem at all possible outsource it and demand that others do it for you.

Well that and that anything can be fixed with ‘magical special stick tape’ - apparently.