Inventive punishments for The Boy

[Grumpmeister]

Something tells me I don't even need to read the other posts to know the answer to my next question. You left your card lying around didnt you?

Something you could try, which seemed to work for a mate, is to come up with the average amount you spend on them at christmas and put it on a board for them to see. Then each time they misbehave, deduct an amount in proportion to what they have done illustrating what that amount could have bought.

[Nick]

I quite like that idea, but I think he might get the better of me somehow 

[Snoopy]

Since your specialisation is English it is likely he is better than you at sums 

[Barman]

Since your specialisation is English it is likely he is better than you at sums 

[Nick]

He is 

[Grumpmeister]

I'd suggest putting a spreadsheet on the computer to calculate it but something tells me it would be hacked before long... 

[GROWLER]

Put him up for auction on ebay.

[Grumpmeister]

Prolly a little late for you old boy but research just released suggests that parents should try harder to find out what their children are doing on t'interweb... 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7948187.stm

[Uncle Mort]

Prolly a little late for you old boy but research just released suggests that parents should try harder to find out what their children are doing on t'interweb... 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7948187.stm

The last paragraph leaves me a tad puzzled:

The survey found that, in many cases, the net is helping to cement the social ties within a family. One-third of the UK children in the survey said they had befriended their parents on a social networking site.

[Bar Wench]

What about the statement is a puzzle?

[Snoopy]

Given that a great many children live with only one parent and they use the social network to keep in touch with the other parent then it makes some sense to me. Perhaps not an ideal scenario but what is these days?

[Uncle Mort]

Surely children and their parents are already friends 

[Snoopy]

I'm not sure, given a choice, I would even want to know my kids, certainly not socially ~ only joking!!!!


No ~ I seriously doubt that some parents are friends with their children and in the case of an absent parent perhaps the social network does provide a bridge. Particularly when there is animosity between the parents. One of my granddaughters keeps in touch with her father mainly by email. Mind she thinks he's a tosser anyway but that's another story.

[Bar Wench]

I'm a great believer in that the internet is great thing for families. Internet, social networking, blogging etc. All of it helps to keep in touch with people with much greater ease than normal. Brother Wench and I email most days where as if it were left to phonecalls we would speak once every couple of months if that. Mother Wench is fully up to speed with things and uses facebook/blogs etc to keep up with pictures etc of the extended family all of whom are on facebook.

Mr Wench actually recomends to parents that they friend their children on networking sites. Far easier to see what they and their friends are up to. Also children are more likely to unburden themselves via written communication rather than a face to face. He often has kids tell him things via his school email that they wouldn't dream of saying in a classroom enivornment. Same goes for kids and parents.

I think it's all a good thing.

[Nick]

As long as it doesn't involve credit cards