O/T The Official Squareball Parenting Thread

[Ponte]

A couple of minor victories today. Firstly, last night when picking t'bairn up from nursery they asked if he could please wear something red today for 'sports relief' activities and photos. I was proud to reply that he didn't own so much as one single red sock. Picking him up tonight I noticed that some wazzock (how did a great word like that ever fall out of favour?) had sent his kid in full baby forest kit. Took small satisfaction in surreptitiously punting a stickle brick or something the lad seemed to be tottering towards into another room.

I hope you muttered "little cunt" or similar as you did it.

[Phil LUFC]

A couple of minor victories today. Firstly, last night when picking t'bairn up from nursery they asked if he could please wear something red today for 'sports relief' activities and photos. I was proud to reply that he didn't own so much as one single red sock. Picking him up tonight I noticed that some wazzock (how did a great word like that ever fall out of favour?) had sent his kid in full baby forest kit. Took small satisfaction in surreptitiously punting a stickle brick or something the lad seemed to be tottering towards into another room.

Respect

My only contributions to this thread have been to highlight the negatives so.... it seems the boy is doing extremely well for his age within his pre-school group. The missus was pulled aside during the week to be told that they're having to bring him work down from the foundation year to keep him stimulated. That may be a sign of the general intelligence of his class mates, but still, its proud moments like that which make it all worthwhile.

[ARDS]

A couple of minor victories today. Firstly, last night when picking t'bairn up from nursery they asked if he could please wear something red today for 'sports relief' activities and photos. I was proud to reply that he didn't own so much as one single red sock. Picking him up tonight I noticed that some wazzock (how did a great word like that ever fall out of favour?) had sent his kid in full baby forest kit. Took small satisfaction in surreptitiously punting a stickle brick or something the lad seemed to be tottering towards into another room.

Respect

My only contributions to this thread have been to highlight the negatives so.... it seems the boy is doing extremely well for his age within his pre-school group. The missus was pulled aside during the week to be told that they're having to bring him work down from the foundation year to keep him stimulated. That may be a sign of the general intelligence of his class mates, but still, its proud moments like that which make it all worthwhile.

Takes after "Mother" then !

[Phil LUFC]

A couple of minor victories today. Firstly, last night when picking t'bairn up from nursery they asked if he could please wear something red today for 'sports relief' activities and photos. I was proud to reply that he didn't own so much as one single red sock. Picking him up tonight I noticed that some wazzock (how did a great word like that ever fall out of favour?) had sent his kid in full baby forest kit. Took small satisfaction in surreptitiously punting a stickle brick or something the lad seemed to be tottering towards into another room.

Respect

My only contributions to this thread have been to highlight the negatives so.... it seems the boy is doing extremely well for his age within his pre-school group. The missus was pulled aside during the week to be told that they're having to bring him work down from the foundation year to keep him stimulated. That may be a sign of the general intelligence of his class mates, but still, its proud moments like that which make it all worthwhile.

Takes after "Mother" then !

Cheeky fucker!! He's very much mini-me.






......which is why I'm being cautious, he might be above average now but it can't last

[MightyWhite]

Cheeky fucker!! He's very much mini-me.






......which is why I'm being cautious, he might be above average now but it can't last

Apparently I was labelled something of a child prodigy in my very early school days. Didn't end well

[FER]

For some reason, daughter has decided that "For fucks' sake!" is an acceptable phrase. Can't imagine where she got it from

[MightyWhite]

My poor little lad has a cold Don't think it's anything to get worked up about, as his temperature is normal and he's still guzzling his milk down. Turned him into a miserable sod though, unsurprisingly. This, combined with my mrs generally feeling shitty all the time (due to an iron deficiency caused my blood loss in labour, apparently) makes me hanker for the days when the dad would clear off to work/football/pub and have no involvement in bringing up the family other than a swift slice of discipline when required

[AndyPaul]

For some reason, daughter has decided that "For fucks' sake!" is an acceptable phrase. Can't imagine where she got it from

Never mind that you cunt, where's the F1 updates? Its been shit for years and you kept rambling on about it despite the lack of interest. Now there seems to be a new lease of life this season as the first two races have been quite entertaining, yet what do we get from you? - Silence

[FER]

Never mind that you cunt, where's the F1 updates? Its been shit for years and you kept rambling on about it despite the lack of interest. Now there seems to be a new lease of life this season as the first two races have been quite entertaining, yet what do we get from you? - Silence

It's really quite simple; I can't be arsed.

[AndyPaul]

Never mind that you cunt, where's the F1 updates? Its been shit for years and you kept rambling on about it despite the lack of interest. Now there seems to be a new lease of life this season as the first two races have been quite entertaining, yet what do we get from you? - Silence

It's really quite simple; I can't be arsed.

Ah, I thought you were merely copying race reviews off another site and passing them off as yours! But I could imagine it would be quite time consuming to write reviews yourself, especially this season where there appears to be something to write about.

I say this, but I haven't even watched the first two races

[Phil LUFC]

For some reason, daughter has decided that "For fucks' sake!" is an acceptable phrase. Can't imagine where she got it from

Its when they hear a word once, and only once, store it and then apply it in context within a complete sentence at every opportunity that you need to worry, they're really quite intelligent with that sort of thing.

[thechubbyone]

For some reason, daughter has decided that "For fucks' sake!" is an acceptable phrase. Can't imagine where she got it from

Its when they hear a word once, and only once, store it and then apply it in context within a complete sentence at every opportunity that you need to worry, they're really quite intelligent with that sort of thing.

My cousin's kid came out with "where's my fucking hot-wheels?" once.

[Phil LUFC]

For some reason, daughter has decided that "For fucks' sake!" is an acceptable phrase. Can't imagine where she got it from

Its when they hear a word once, and only once, store it and then apply it in context within a complete sentence at every opportunity that you need to worry, they're really quite intelligent with that sort of thing.

My cousin's kid came out with "where's my fucking hot-wheels?" once.

A few years back, my daughter heard her auntie describe something as minging, and then later the same day said "uncle Daz, you're a minger". She was about 3 at the time and to the best of our knowledge she had not heard anyone use the word minger.

[gazurtoids]

There was a chap profiled on The Life Scientific a few months back, a neurologist possibly, who'd shown at some point that children don't learn language purely through imitation. He observed that young children conjugated unfamiliar irregular verbs incorrectly -- i.e., as if they were regular: "I runned" instead of "I ran" or whatever. The point was that it was impossible for the kids to have heard the incorrect version and be copying it so they must have actually understood grammatical rules by inference and be applying them to new words. Pretty impressive, really.

[Mustafaster]

There was a chap profiled on The Life Scientific a few months back, a neurologist possibly, who'd shown at some point that children don't learn language purely through imitation. He observed that young children conjugated unfamiliar irregular verbs incorrectly -- i.e., as if they were regular: "I runned" instead of "I ran" or whatever. The point was that it was impossible for the kids to have heard the incorrect version and be copying it so they must have actually understood grammatical rules by inference and be applying them to new words. Pretty impressive, really.

It is.
Kids do astonishing things with language from very poor stimulus in all known languages.
The invention of new words that kids can never have heard is the basis for Chomskyan theories of Universal Grammar. If they have never heard a word how can they invent it and use it "correctly"?
We goed to the shops and we buyed sweets.

[FER]

Ah, I thought you were merely copying race reviews off another site and passing them off as yours! But I could imagine it would be quite time consuming to write reviews yourself, especially this season where there appears to be something to write about.

I say this, but I haven't even watched the first two races

It is quite time consuming, especially as I did them all at work! I did check the BBC F1 site sometimes last year, but only for references to overtakes on certain laps etc. Other than that, all views expressed were my own, including the contunual reference to the DGB

[And that was really moving]

Congratulate me boys, I made us a new star striker!(or if he ends up with my physique a lumbering centre back, past his glory days, and best described as a rugged old pro.) Well my wife did, but I helped Born this morning, looking like a white Mike Tyson, with fists boiled hams and feet like toppled skyscrapers.

God bless you all ye merry gentlemen, and ladies if BNL is present.

[AndyPaul]

Congratulate me boys, I made us a new star striker!(or if he ends up with my physique a lumbering centre back, past his glory days, and best described as a rugged old pro.) Well my wife did, but I helped Born this morning, looking like a white Mike Tyson, with fists boiled hams and feet like toppled skyscrapers.

God bless you all ye merry gentlemen, and ladies if BNL is present.

Congrats

This really is a fertile message board ain't it? Christ you guys are really lashing out the kids

[And that was really moving]

Congratulate me boys, I made us a new star striker!(or if he ends up with my physique a lumbering centre back, past his glory days, and best described as a rugged old pro.) Well my wife did, but I helped Born this morning, looking like a white Mike Tyson, with fists boiled hams and feet like toppled skyscrapers.

God bless you all ye merry gentlemen, and ladies if BNL is present.

Congrats

This really is a fertile message board ain't it? Christ you guys are really lashing out the kids

Thanks very much and yep, your girl next if I can just see my way through this bloody smog.

[AndyPaul]

Congratulate me boys, I made us a new star striker!(or if he ends up with my physique a lumbering centre back, past his glory days, and best described as a rugged old pro.) Well my wife did, but I helped Born this morning, looking like a white Mike Tyson, with fists boiled hams and feet like toppled skyscrapers.

God bless you all ye merry gentlemen, and ladies if BNL is present.

Congrats

This really is a fertile message board ain't it? Christ you guys are really lashing out the kids

Thanks very much and yep, your girl next if I can just see my way through this bloody smog.