After a lifelong career in primary teaching and a Tawny Owl of a Brownie pack, also co-organiser of a youth club and head of a summertime creche for non-English speaking young children in Glasgow, I can surely say I have quite a large experience of children. I have taken groups abroad too, forty at a time, with adult helpers.
I like children immensely (obviously) but all that hasn't made me a better person or made me feel 'proud' in any way. One just did it.

I feel Ms Leadsom has enormously damaged her pitch here with this posturing; it's backfired rather badly!