Children

[Mr.Bill]

[Darkhorse]

[Mr.Bill]

[Professor]

I just hit the button that activates their shock collars. Works every time.

[Spider]

Hypnosis, maybe. Every time they do something you don't like, you say a trigger word and they develop a splitting headache.

[Stratego]

[The Comrade]

i think looking at children like a challenge and having complete confidence in taming them is setting yourself up for massive amounts of failure. children are lovecraftian gods of chaos. all your planning is going to get a big ole diarrhea dump on it (sometimes literally).

[Aaron]

[lil bit]

There are far too many helicopter parents around these days. Some of my daughter's friends can barely wipe their own arses without directions from mum and dad.

They don't just hope their parents will help them out over every damned thing, they expect it.

I'm not at all surprised millennials have problems getting a job. So many have no idea how to think for themselves and seem surprised they should be expected to do it.

My daughter has recently been seconded to Abu Dhabi. On paper she shouldn't have got the job, but I knew she would be a shoo in.

She's not particularly academic, but she's bright enough - and, more importantly, has initiative and the ability to get herself out of trouble. The things she doesn't find easy to learn, she works at.

The best thing you can do for your children ( apart from keeping them away from electrical sockets , the traffic and so on) is help them to help themselves and not be doing everything for them - and start young.

When your kids are little, be on hand to save them from falling off the climbing frame at the park, but when their foot slips ( and it will), encourage them to right themselves before rushing in and hauling them off.

There's nothing as sad as seeing some three year old tentatively walking across a four inch wide bar that's a mere two foot off the ground, while clinging tightly to his anxious mum's hand, unless it's a child of six bawling and carrying on in his mother's arms because he tripped and skinned his knee in the playground.

Losers in the making.

OK, lecture over.

Talk amongst yourselves now.

[Winchester]