On 08 Oct 2007 12:04:31 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Stuart Noble writes:

Parents do the best they can given that most of them have other burning
issues to deal with at that time in their lives, but they do seem to

...and they get little or no training in what is probably the
most important job of their lives -- being a patent.

Crazy, isn't it? I think parenting skills should be on the national
curriculum.

The only "training" that most parents get is remembering what their
parents did. In this respect they are likely to repeat the same
mistakes unless they work *very* hard to avoid them (and that's
if they are even aware of them).

make hard work of it all. Children only want your time, and don't much
care how you spend it together, but the parents get bored. They want "fun".

Fun - Ah, I remember that ;-)

M