[Paxton]

When I was a kid, I used to break all the wooden spoons that mum had in the kitchen. The wooden spoons were replaced, used on my ****, and then broken again.

I don't have any kids, but you can be sure that when I do, a) they won't be dumped into childcare (like so many I see and know these days), and b) will actually be disciplined like I was. I was at a BBQ yesterday where they had a Chiminea going in the backyard. These two kids, also in attendance were happily attempting to burn the house down by putting dead palm fronds into the fire, and then pulling them out, flaming. Their mother told them to stop, and they didn't. Their father told them to stop, they stopped, he turned his back, and they were into the fire again. If this was me, the wooden spoon would have been a treat, my Dad's Left hand hurt a damn sight more. These two kids were brought up courtesy of Eddy Groves, and it shows.

People have got to get their heads out of their backsides, and realise that their children aren't little angels (actually far from it), and treat them as such. If you can get a handle on the little darlings in their early years, then you have their ways set in for life.