I was not expecting this week’s Share Your World questions to be all about children. Tricky one for me to answer but I have done my best.

 Children aside, do you celebrate your birthday/anniversary or is it just a normal day for you?

Yes, I do celebrate my birthday. Who said birthday fun was only for kids? That doesn’t mean I require a big party or anything like that. Usually Naomi and I go out for lunch on our birthdays, sometimes we can’t do it on the right day but as close as we can.

This year Naomi is away on holidays on my birthday but she left me a present which I won’t open until the day. I’ll make myself something nice for dinner and treat myself to some chocolate.

 Do/did you always give your child a birthday party when they were young?

I never had children but if I had I’d have given them a party if they wanted it or some kind of special treat if they didn’t. I was never much of a party person myself so I’d never insist on a child having one if they didn’t want it.

 If your child was born on Christmas Day (or a few days either side of the 25th), did they have a ‘half birthday’ in June, two presents/celebrations, or something else?

Again I can’t answer that for myself but I’ll tell you about my mum. Her birthday was on Christmas Day. She also had two older sisters, twins, who were born on 13 December. For the first few years of her life mum shared their birthday so that they wouldn’t think that she was getting more presents than them at Christmas. I know that some family members sometimes gave mum a combined Christmas/Birthday gift. Naomi and I always thought that was mean and we always bought mum a special birthday present and made her a birthday cake. We’d try to make some special time for her on Christmas Day when it was just about her.

Would you prefer to give your child a party, or take them and a few friends on a special outing?

Oh, these are such hard questions for a childless person to answer. I can only say what I think I would do which is whatever the child preferred. I don’t care for going to parties but I would have been happy to bake a cake, decorate and organise a kids party. The only thing I would not have wanted to do was to get caught up in birthday party one upmanship which is more about the parents than the children I think.