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Emotional Sue Radford faces biggest parenting challenge yet - 'you can't hold them back'


With one of her brood looking to move to Australia, mum of 22 Sue Radford reveals her parenting rule for coping when the kids fly the nest and why it's an 'emotional' time

Sue, who has 'hectic' Mother's Day plans, admits that when a couple of her grown-up children started to leave home to follow their own ambitions it was an emotional time for her as a parent. The couple then went on to have Sophie, 29, Chloe, 28, Jack, 26, Daniel, 24, Luke, 22, Millie, 22, Katie, 20, James, 19, Ellie, 18, Aimee, 17, Josh, 16, Max, 14, Tillie, 13, Oscar, 11, Casper, 10, Hallie, eight, Phoebe, seven, Archie, six, Bonnie, four, and Heidie, three. As for the couple’s own dreams, Noel has plans to get his own pilot’s licence while Sue is keen to do more travelling once the children are a bit older..

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