Number 1 friend seems quite surprised that I don’t know the name of my daughter’s head teacher. Oh I don’t even know the name of her form teacher I said adding, is that bad? She’s visibly shocked so I turn back to the permission slip I’m completing and continue in silence. I’m racking my brains for her form group. I knew it once I chide myself. I’m feeling the pressure. Eventually I give in and turn to friend one, she’s 7 erm….oh my god she exclaims. Another failure to me, except the very nature of our friendship and her number one status is that we don’t judge. We go back too far and know too much. Well, I continue defensively, the whole year 7 induction process burnt me out. Plus I have too many children to worry about details: too many parent portals, too many systems, too many codes. At my kids’ school there are several heads, my no 1 friend continues, seemingly recovered from her disappointment in me. Too many heads…. Life is just so complicated now.