Daughter of the Devil
Recently Thebiglassie and I were looking after her brother's kids - a 3 year old boy and a seven year old devil-girl.

She averaged 4 MAJOR tantrums a day and was generally a nasty little piece of work. She calmed down as the weekend progressed, mainly down to two things:

1) We ignored her. Completely and utterly ignored the screams, taunts, yells and tears...until

2) When she screamed that she wanted an ice-cream I screamed back at teh top of my voice that I wanted a beer, but couldn't have one because I was stuck with her. I out tantrumed her.

That shut her up. It may not have been great babysitting skills, but was better than hitting her over the head with a shovel which was also very tempting.

When their parents arrived back the missus and I stood up and left our flat and went straight to the pub.

I'm not going to have kids. Can't risk the results of the missus' similar genes.
(Thebigfella, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 14:30, 3 replies)

fuck the genes
that kid's obviously been spoilt rotten
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:57, closed)

I use a similiar reply
When my daughter tries the "I want a..." routine I reply, I want an Aston Martin, and I'm not getting one either.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:24, closed)

You are the type of person who SHOULD have kids
You obviously know what it means to raise a decent kid. Go to it.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 11:02, closed)