Not forgetting little Maddy

[Nick]

True, I was attacked here about 18 months back, same thing. But an abduction is summat else. Or should we start a pointless CCTV thread now. I heard tell on the news yesterday that there will now be aeroplane surveillance (unmanned) of, er, everything.

WHo watches the watchers?

[Misunderstood]

It is very effective against speeding cars apparently.  Or at least was, until false plates got to be so popular.

Maybe they should put CCTV in the confessional.      Maybe the already do... 

[Misunderstood]

"Maddie cried 18 hours a day"

So what?

My daughter did that.  She drove us all to distraction, more that once I fantasised about chucking her out of the window,  Most of our near neighbours fancied throttling her too.

I used to go into work at three or four in the morning, just to get some peace and quiet.   As a family we were emotional wrecks, zombies for eighteen months.

Looking back, I can't imagine how we kept going - all of us within hearing range.

But Hey!  She's forty now.


I don't buy it. 

[Snoopy]

Been there .....got five tee shirts. 

[Misunderstood]

Umm!  Last one was quite quiet, a determined pyromaniac though. 

[Snoopy]

Umm!  Last one was quite quiet, a determined pyromaniac though. 

Yes we had one of those ~ until gambling got him in his teens. Haven't spoken to him for years. He's 40 next year.

[Misunderstood]

   And they wonder why we're grumpy....

[Bar Wench]

Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things.  

[Nick]

YOu have doubtless made up for it since.

[Misunderstood]

Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things. 

Yes. I had two of them.  Unremarkable.

[Nick]

Ours is stabilising, but remains a handfull!

Roll on 2015!!

[Snoopy]

Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things. 

Betcha you were not. These are normal kids we are talking about.
The problems with children are
(i) There is no training for the job ~ you pick it up as you go along.
(ii) Every child is different so it doesn't matter what you did with the previous one ... the same things will not work with the current one.
(iii) They are us, only younger and without experience.
(iv) They believe they are the first who ever did anything, thought any thought or encountered any situation.
(v) They do not realise that you were once a kid yourself.
(vi) They do not come with an operators manual nor a help desk number (unless you count your own parents whose reaction is usually to roll about laughing)

[Nick]

Too true, Snoops. Too true

[Bar Wench]

Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things. 

Betcha you were not. These are normal kids we are talking about.
The problems with children are
(i) There is no training for the job ~ you pick it up as you go along.
(ii) Every child is different so it doesn't matter what you did with the previous one ... the same things will not work with the current one.
(iii) They are us, only younger and without experience.
(iv) They believe they are the first who ever did anything, thought any thought or encountered any situation.
(v) They do not realise that you were once a kid yourself.
(vi) They do not come with an operators manual nor a help desk number (unless you count your own parents whose reaction is usually to roll about laughing)

Honestly until the age of 19 when I dropped out of college the most worry I gave my parents was behaviour wise was being caught smoking. I didn't sneak out, set things on fire, get into trouble at school, have inappropriate boyfriends, cut myself, drink too much, have an eating disorder.  

[Nick]

Does anyone here have normal well behaved kids? I was positively angelic and boring by the sounds of things. 

Betcha you were not. These are normal kids we are talking about.
The problems with children are
(i) There is no training for the job ~ you pick it up as you go along.
(ii) Every child is different so it doesn't matter what you did with the previous one ... the same things will not work with the current one.
(iii) They are us, only younger and without experience.
(iv) They believe they are the first who ever did anything, thought any thought or encountered any situation.
(v) They do not realise that you were once a kid yourself.
(vi) They do not come with an operators manual nor a help desk number (unless you count your own parents whose reaction is usually to roll about laughing)

Honestly until the age of 19 when I dropped out of college the most worry I gave my parents was behaviour wise was being caught smoking. I didn't sneak out, set things on fire, get into trouble at school, have inappropriate boyfriends, cut myself, drink too much, have an eating disorder.  

I guess you have caught up on all that now then!