I don't know how, but I managed to miss all the fuss surrounding Cerrie Burnell when she joined CBeebies. The problem? Cerrie is that she only has one hand, the other missing from the elbow down. This is how she was born, it's not through an accident (something which I had wondered).

The 'fuss' was from parents whose children were frightened when she appeared on their screens, and the parents, rather than calming them down and explaining that people are different, sadly chose instead to complain to the BBC.

Sorry, but I can't believe this level of ignorance. Well that's not strictly true, I'm more accurately saddened that they can be that ignorant, and suspect the children were responding to the parents reactions.

Obviously Adam is far too young to notice anything different about Cerrie, but if he had been I would have explained to him, and I dare say at some point he's going to ask, and I look forward to reassuring him if necessary, but hopefully he'll be smart enough to work this all out on his own, which children usually are.

You can see the piece on Disability Cerrie did for the One Show here.