As I was spending my Sunday morning recovering from a surgery and several glasses of wine the night before, I did what most mother’s in this state would do and persuaded my five year old to play Mario Kart. I am sure that Gina Ford and other experts on the art of parenting would be in total agreement with me here….

He switches on the TV, controller in hand and nothing happens. After some grumbling about losing Wii games and taking care of our things I insert a new disc into the Wii and try to persuade him that he really preferred to dance.

The disc won’t go in. Hmmmm….unplugging things usually fixes them right up.

As I pull at the device to uplug the cords I hear a lovely jingling inside.

Toddler man has decided to stick his spare change in the opening. Someone told him that throwing money at it fixes anything!