When newly married , I had hoped for four children.
It's probably best for them that this couldn't happen; I didn't do a very good job on the one I did raise. Having trained a number of dogs, I am a lot wiser now.
Going into teaching after a career as first a chemical engineer at Glaxo and Shell in California, followed by self employed at The Falls, converting and running self-catering holiday cottages and then converting and running what is now the Oxfam building in town, was perhaps something that fulfilled this desire I had for understanding how children tick.
I am now back in touch with quite a number of very young children, at times being given sole charge of their activities. They are fascinating to relate to.
Now, working in Mill dam park, I get to observe a wide range of parent - child behaviour.
One comes to understand that patterns of behaviour are established at a very early age in fact from the hour a baby is born.
More later :
Why do parents give food as a way of controlling their children - isn't this going to lead to problems in years to come?
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