The question
What would you like to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The wisdom to become who they are in the truth of their spirit.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗
Purge toxic relationships and spend time with the people who inspire you to be better.
So it seems to be my responsibility, particularly to my children, also to my wife and friends, is not to be Pollyanna and pretend everything's okay no one would take me seriously if I said that but it's to be as present in their lives now as I can be so that in years to come, they don't feel either guilty or bad at my having been left out of their lives, that they feel still a very strong not a memory of particular actions but a memory of a complete family rather than a broken one. That seems to be something I can do or try to do.
A house in west London.
Happy memories.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.
Worrying at things.
Alchemy. Love. Resilience.
Not being there for my daughter.
A Dalí painting.
Mark Bonnar, Stephen K Amos, Justin Hawkins, Bobbi Brown, Katie Melua, Jon Sopel
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