Absolutely Frazzled

[norrahe]

Children are lovely.






From a safe distance.

WCS



Also lovelier in a sound proofed room.

[MarillionFan]

OMFG!

I turn my back for two minutes and one of the little darlings has just taken a pen to the missus's IMAC and hinged off all of the keys!

******* little tulip!

[EternalOptimist]

110 volts to the frontal lobe doesnt seem too barbaric now ?

[shaunbhoy]

Tried karate classes. SY03 cried, he didn't like the shouting.
Tried football classes. SY03 cried, he didn't like all the other kids running at him.
Tried tennis classes. SY03 cried, lost interest as to why.

Sounds like you need to toughen up your regime or you will be in a world of hurt in a few years time.
Get yourself a 2-man ridge tent and walk the little fooker the length of the Pennine Way making him carry the rucksack. If he starts blubbing then threaten to leave him on his own. By the end of the week you will have a mini "Ray Mears" on your hands that will never need you to wipe his arse ever again. Mind you, you might find that your cat ends up on the Bar-B-Q at some stage, but they are easily replaced.

HTH

[d000hg]

In the winter however, suprisingly they prefer to stay in the warm, and we prefer it too as they then don't trudge mud into the house every 5 minutes while bringing their demands.

There's your problem, letting them come back in every 5min. Wrap them up warm, kick them out and tell them they can't come back until lunchtime. After lunch, kick them out until it's getting dark.

Solved! And before people start complaining about child brutality - this is exactly how most in my father's generation were raised, and his father's generation too.

[FiveTimes]

MF - 4-5yr is a good age for them to start martial arts.
We have taken 3 year olds before but they don't have the concentration.

My little girl, just turned 8 had her first sparing session at kickboxing on friday with a lad who is 10.
It only lasted 10 secs, the lad dropped his guard and daughter just landed a jab right on the nose and there was blood everywhere. She started crying saying she never ment it

I said sure you ment to hit him there, but not that hard. BTW it was a cracking shot though

[MarillionFan]

MF - 4-5yr is a good age for them to start martial arts.
We have taken 3 year olds before but they don't have the concentration.

My little girl, just turned 8 had her first sparing session at kickboxing on friday with a lad who is 10.
It only lasted 10 secs, the lad dropped his guard and daughter just landed a jab right on the nose and there was blood everywhere. She started crying saying she never ment it

I said sure you ment to hit him there, but not that hard. BTW it was a cracking shot though

I think it's good for discipline, concentration as well as fitness. I did mine really late and I think earlier would have been better. Not sure if Karate or Judo yet.

[d000hg]

Judo they're less likely to try fancy kicks on their mates. It's also arguably more useful IRL if that's of any relevance at all

[FiveTimes]

Judo they're less likely to try fancy kicks on their mates. It's also arguably more useful IRL if that's of any relevance at all

I would disagree that its more useful IRL - but great for discipline and structure.

[shaunbhoy]

SY02 and I are frazzled. The reason?

SY03, 04, 05

By day they are little midget terrorists that run amok, making shrill noises while playing their games, demanding drinks, food, "Can you fix my toy Daddy", "Daddy, he hit me", "It wasn't me Daddy I didn't hit him" etc etc etc

By night they are masters of torture methods such as sleep deprivation, and Chinese "whining" torture. "I can't sleep Mummy, I had a bad dream", "I can't sleep, SY04 woke me up" etc etc etc

Maybe you could get them into close-harmony singing SY??