Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote

I think one tends to get very cynical when you encounter the
problems over and over. I also think that for many when young
you always push the boundaries in some form or another

Yes., we evolved like that.

and hence the only issue is, as we all did it,

Not everyone does.

do we just say, well, I was a little wild when I was
their age, or do you do what was done to you
and get on their case. The jury is out,

Not really.

but I think a bit of a compromise
is what ended up happening.

We of course all think we know it all
and are king of the hill at those ages.

Yep, we evolved like that.

Two of us at that age were left unsupervised
after being shown what to do, camping out
for months by ourselves doing quite complicated
scientific research and did that fine.

"Mark" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:00:47 +0000, ARW
wrote:

I gave a scathing report to his tutor.


So the little ******* told his Dad that I had given him a bad report and
his Dad called me to find out why.

There was no shouting, swearing or making threats. In fact it was quite
a polite conversation until I said to his Dad "If your son spent as much
time taking an interest in electrics as he spent smoking he might learn
something".

His Dad went ballistic but not at me.

So. You enjoy being a bully. Get a life.
I think you are supposed to be helping him, Yes?

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