linnfomaniac83
I bet you can’t wheelie a unicycle!
I try to avoid it and my sister sent her packing a couple of weeks ago… Dad (my brother) is very much on the scene, but he does have to travel for work, so he can be away days at a time, and no kind of boundaries are enforced whilst he’s away. The little one will literally fight you if you try and stop him though. When I took the remote from him the other day, he really held tight onto it with the one hand whilst hitting out with the other, kind of comical really, but it won’t be if that behaviour continues as he grows up.Yeah, I think we've all met kids like him. Dad is not around and mother is a fechin idiot! They're going to pay for it in the long run. I've seen it. Once they get to their teens you've in big trouble and it's too late to fix.
Personally, I wouldn't have the kid in the house. I'm not joking. I would say to the mother that it's up to her how she brings up her kids but I've worked hard for the things I have and I'm not going to stand back and watch a spoiled, ill-disciplined child destroy them. I remember we befriended a Nigerian family who had three young boys, the youngest was a baby but the two older boys were a bomb scare. They were in our house once, that was it. Never again.
I've been extremely blunt with people often. It''s better that way. You're not trying to pretend you're ok with things you're not ok with, they know exactly where you stand. It's just better to be honest even if it does cause discord at the time. Which it does. Honesty is just better in the long run and might help the situation.
When they come round, I don’t let anyone in the front room at all, that’s were my main system is along with my LP12 and my music collection, oled tv etc. It’s pretty much a certainty that some damage would be done.
You’ve mentioned that family before in a similar thread. It’s tougher when it’s family, although I will always voice my concerns. If people think I’m mean when I take a remote, my car keys, phone etc off their child, then so be it… they’d be even less happy when I handed them the bill for a new remote key fob because their child has drowned it in their saliva and killed it, or smashed a phone screen.
One mishap that happened a couple of years ago here, I’d got my niece and two nephews whilst my sister was at work during the summer holidays, we were in the garden and the kids were playing in the hot tub, the youngest needed the toilet so his sister took him whilst into the house whilst I supervised the middle one in the tub… she then went to the toilet and left him in the hallway… in the time she’d left him, he’d made his way into the front room (don’t ask how, I’d left the door shut and the handle was out of his reach), he’d managed to take the cantilever off my Rega Apheta. Only found out later when I walked in the room and found the arm resting on the platter.
A good few years before that, my friend’s children crushed both ceramic tweeter domes on my Linn Keilidhs, again, it could’ve only happened whilst I was out of the room. They kept going for them and I kept moving them (they were like a team, one going for a speaker each), I made a drink and told my friend to keep the kids away from the speakers/hifi… I only realised later when I came to play some music that they’d completely destroyed both tweeters.