MY youngest daughter managed to get through her childhood without suffering too many scrapes and bruises.

In my day, these were seen as the everyday lumps and bumps of growing up and a grazed knee and a cartoon lump on the head were as typical as a clip round the ear from the local bobby.

But these are very different days and marks and bruises on your youngsters can elicit some very critical looks from fellow parents and sometimes far worse.

Imagine then what Chris Churchill and Steph Green have to put up with on a daily basis as they wheel their beloved toddler Harry around.

Harry’s dreadful skin condition goes way beyond the normal problems babies suffer in their early months and which generally clear up with time and/or treatment.

Tragically, Harry’s condition won’t go away and the pain that brings Chris and Steph can only be worsened by the lack of understanding of those of us who meet him.

That Harry is loved there is absolutely no doubt and never has the phrase “there but for the grace of God go we” been more appropriate to every parent who reads the story in the Daily Echo (Monday, May 31).

But it is a story that wants to provoke nothing but understanding, both of little Harry’s plight and how this terrible disease can taint not only its sufferers.