People with young children....

[JPaul]

Shut your dirty filthy trap you miserable pathetic spineless little worm.

Oooo. This feels good!

I knew that it wood.

[Skweeky]

I need black stilleto boots.

I'd lend you mine, but you don't look like a size 8

[Squeamous]

I don't know what kind of a father it would make you, but it must make you a terrible husband. I doubt your marriage will survive for long like that.

Ironically, we have the best marriage out of anyone that we know. The reason for that I think is that we dont see too much of each other. We have dinner together and see each other weekends. Been together 11 years and going strong.

I'm a great husband.

You probably have a great marriage because you never have the time to argue. When you retire however I give you 6 months and you'll be bludgeoning her with a bookend and spooning her brains into your cereal, trust me.

[Skweeky]

With a working day like that I'd be surprised if he makes in to retirement age :S

[Squeamous]

I totally agree with the OP. If a kid spazzes out in a public place you yank them outta there, drag them home and put them to bed. Even if it's 10am in the fucking morning. I don't have kids btw .

Would never have guessed

Kids can get hyper and I can only speak for mine but when hyper, SGG in particular, could moon walk sideways up walls (orange smarties were good for this). However there is a difference between a kid on duracel batteries and an obnoxious ill mannered little git (often a carbon copy of the parent to be honest). Sometimes tiring, the former are just being kids and there is nothing wrong with that at all - the latter we should be allowed to line up to take a free boot at (and give the kid a quick clip around the ear too). imho

See, this is where the problem lies. Those kids that are naturally hyperactive need exhausting. They need stuff to do, preferably physically until they're too tired to move. However, both parents work these days so they never have the time to spend with their kids. You can't let them play outside and roam with their friends for fear of them getting in trouble, but you can't just bang a kid like that in a classroom and then in front of the telly when they get home and wonder why they act up.

[Squeamous]

With a working day like that I'd be surprised if he makes in to retirement age :S

I reckon he's just going out and working a normal 9-5 and spending the rest of the time wanking .

[Skweeky]

Would never have guessed

Kids can get hyper and I can only speak for mine but when hyper, SGG in particular, could moon walk sideways up walls (orange smarties were good for this). However there is a difference between a kid on duracel batteries and an obnoxious ill mannered little git (often a carbon copy of the parent to be honest). Sometimes tiring, the former are just being kids and there is nothing wrong with that at all - the latter we should be allowed to line up to take a free boot at (and give the kid a quick clip around the ear too). imho

See, this is where the problem lies. Those kids that are naturally hyperactive need exhausting. They need stuff to do, preferably physically until they're too tired to move. However, both parents work these days so they never have the time to spend with their kids. You can't let them play outside and roam with their friends for fear of them getting in trouble, but you can't just bang a kid like that in a classroom and then in front of the telly when they get home and wonder why they act up.

I don't think that is necessarily true. My niece's mum was a stay-at-home mum because Inne has ADHD. She took her to several activities every day and she was allowed outside as often and as much as she liked but the child was inexhaustible. It wasn't a matter of trying to exhaust her, it was just the fact that she was so hyper all of the time and so interested (for a very short period of time) in everything new around her that she sometimes genuinly was very difficult to control.

It's not very nice to take a child like that out somewhere whilst constantly getting evil glares from other people.
Point is, kids will be kids and sometimes they will act up because they do not understand things like social boundaries yet. You can only deal with it within your ability.

[Squeamous]

I am totally not convinced about ADHD...I think it exists but I don't think it exists with anything like the frequency people say it does. It is possible to exhaust a child with lots of energy, it's just that the modern world is fucked up and that doesn't help.

[Skweeky]

It was rather fashionable to have ADHD at some point.

[JPaul]

Everything is ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia or something else nowadays. There's hardly any normal weans left.

Back in the day you had brats and thickos and they got a good boot up the arse. That soon solved their deep psychological problems.