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September 17, 2004

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Age shall not weary them

Mrs M and I attended a "literacy night" at JC's new school. After cracking the usual one-liners ("I'm a bit old to learn to read" always gets teachers) it was down to business. An hour later and I was amazed: where I had thought reading a book with the kids was simple, it turns out to be a complicated minefield. What the teachers couldn't say but meant was to use common sense: set aside time to do it, no distractions, let the kids use the pictures to work out the story themselves and don't use p0rn magazines as a reader.

What really struck me was the other parents. There were 50 people in the room and with the exception of BL I was the youngest male there. I am in my early 30s; some of these men looked like they could have been my father rather than father of a 4 year old. It scares me to think I'm closer in age to the kids than I was to some of the men in the room last night.

 posted by Simon on 09.17.04 at 11:33 AM in the




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speaking as a new father who is now the wrong side of "early 30s", i'd just like to say, on behalf of all of us, fuck off young whippersnapper. you're just jealous because you spent your late 20s and early 30s changing nappies, making up milk bottles and desperately trying to catch up on sleep, while we spent our late 20s and early 30s, man's peak partying years, eating too much, drinking too much, staying out too late and then staying in bed till midday with our better-halves (be they better-halves just for the day or on a longer-term basis) practising our baby-making technique, so that when we could afford to not have to get up in the middle of the night or with the lark because of our screaming offspring, we could then have children.

nahnahnahnahnah

posted by: giles on 09.17.04 at 12:28 PM [permalink]

Simon - are you concerned about whether you will be able to match the vigour of these older chaps when you reach their age?

 posted by: fumier on 09.17.04 at 12:53 PM [permalink]




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