Harsh but educational

[suityou01]

Sorry to be harsh SY, but this was a classic piece of bad parenting.
The first kid should learn plumbing, second should be vehicle maintenance, followed by bricklaying, the law, accountancy, animal husbandry then martial arts. To teach carpentry and furniture design, out of sequence is just sad. very sad.

Ah I wondered why you were an ace seamstress

[MarillionFan]

Obedient and well behaved children is my major desire.

If this was a question about IT Contracting we'd be be blaming the manager. Direction always comes from above.

[suityou01]

If this was a question about IT Contracting we'd be be blaming the manager. Direction always comes from above.

You read the OP and understood it, right?

[Paddy]

The lesson is don’t but furniture from Ikea

[suityou01]

The lesson is don’t but furniture from Ikea

Wilkinson

[Clippy]

I believe the appropriate place for this is here.

[MarillionFan]

Wilkinson

If you invest in Indian furniture it is perfect for kids. It is solid built, lasts for ever and if they scratch it you can wax it out and so it looks as good as new.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the nest of tables he has in his house. BTW. You've done a lovely job fixing them.

[RichardCranium]

Obedient and well behaved children is my major desire.

That's how Gary Glitter got into trouble.

[CheeseSlice]

SY04 relished in coming to tell us what SY03 had done, being the typical pesky little brother.

Back in the days, I recall my father punished my big sister for continually grassing me up every time I broke something. Usually she was daddy's girl, and I would end up being yelled at or receiving a red backside if it was really bad, but this time he just surprised us.

Looking back now, it was actually an important lesson for adult life and the 'real world'. Nobody likes a grass....

[RichardCranium]

... but SY03 will not stand on a table and break it without remembering to threaten his grassing little brother with death if he squeals again. Plus he understood the lengths we had to go to, for a moment of bad judgement and will get his revenge in due course. He also learned a lot about measuring, marking and drilling and how to take things apart and where Daddy hides his power tools.

FTFY

Your furniture's wrecked, SY04's doomed, anything held together with screws is fukced, anything that can be drilled is fukced.

When SY02 realises what you've done (embittered and empowered a sullen 6 year old), you're fukced. And not in a nice way.

No wonder SY02 wanted girls.