We were cruising along the east coast many years ago with our youngest and met a couple with a young child in a coastal caravan park. Parents of solo children often grab any opportunity to extract the obvious fleeting benefits of giving give little Johnny a short-term buddy to run amok with for a while. They were in a small caravan and we’re truly lovely people …. but its hard to hide behind a pretense in this environment for very long. I can’t recall the specifics, but from a distance I for whatever reason Mum just seemed a little like she didn’t belong, and was out of place. We were…