About six years ago, I began a project which never really got off the ground. I intended to write a book on the topic of parenting called '50 Ways to raise a monster' - short chapters, each with accompanying cartoon.The point is that over nearly three and a half decades, I have been able to observe appalling behaviour from children and young people - and times-a-many, you could see precisely what the parents had done wrong in raising them.
Parenting skills today are simply lamentable and are no better amongst the middle classes who seem to have lost their moral compass at the same time as having no grasp of the basic practicalities.
Maybe one day I should follow the idea through to conclusion.
