Too true maxred, too true. Parents just don't seem to be willing to deal with the products of their loins nowadays. My own two - now 24 and 29 - were never inflicted on people. If one or both kicked off in a shop, restaurant, whatever I/we'd whip 'em straight out. Nowadays it's just let them shriek. "He's expressing himself" says dopey burd next door as her twenty month old lets rip with another screech that feels like it would shatter glass. The funniest was yesterday when a yummy mummy was trying to reason with her two year old who got itself so wound up it was being sick on Sainsbury's shop floor. Very difficult to explain to someone that you can't reason with something that's unreasonable.
There's not enough slapping, that's what I say!
