Oh dear Lord
The children I encounter are almost exclusively sullen teenagers who've been thieving, or are in other miscellaneous troubles.


Appropriately, I'm now on a train next to a disaster-zone of a mother is saying to her two kids (different fathers, natch), over and over again : "that was your last chance, if you do it again, NO FOOD FOR DINNER!"



Bloody hell, if her cooking's half as lousy as her parenting skills, they're dodging a bullet. Why can't she see how ineffective this is as discipline? Why, oh why, isn't there some sort of test for being a parent that extends beyond getting it in the right hole?


EDIT: she's just bought them crisps from the snack trolley. BAH!
(Exiled Youth [witty comment], Fri 18 Apr 2008, 17:08, 1 reply)

I was 'daaahntaaaahn' once, a overheard a conversation between a mother and her child:
"Look, if you be'ave yourself aahl getchoo a macdonalds la'er alrigh'?
(donkeysoup Was last seen on, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 18:21, closed)