BLOODY KIDS

Who would have em. Two kids with high profile parents , Craig Norgate and Paul Holmes are under the spotlight. We feel very sorry for them, parents that is - not kids. Now we had a bit of a problem with the son and heir to BB's mortgages. He left school barely 16 did the drug experimentation at an early age. drank, got caught drink driving, peeing in a public place and crash a car. So he has been far from the model kid. A decade later he is a Helicopter pilot and instructor. But it has been a tough journey for him and me, moments of abject frustration and disappointment and fear and joy. The rollercoaster of parenting.

So the only thing we can say to parents of wayward kids is play it tough, be firm - don't mother them too much. Always be there for the little buggers.

Form alliances with other parents - the more eyes the less you miss.

Instill in them respect for the police no matter how you feel about them. Children must know that our society needs policemen and we must honour their position.

And after they get to about 25 - they are in charge of their own lives and you have to stand on the sideline.

Its time that the media stopped doing stories on rich kids in trouble. Would they be writing the story if it was about a tagger from Mangere? Or a P addict from Porirua? We know they wouldn't. All the media is doing to these kids is making it so much harder for them to get their shit together..

And thats just bloody tough on the kids...

WE HAVE BEEN TAGGED

BB has been home crook with the flu for three days. Hence the blogging.

Now we have been tagged by M and M this means I have to tell you 7 things you wouldn't know about me.

1 - I have a deformed ear.
2 - I had a trick pony called Lancer who used to rear and kneel down on command
3 - I have killed approx 40,000 muttonbirds by crushing their brains with my teeth severing the brain from the brain stem causing instantaneous death. Consequently one of my back bicuspids is buggered.
4 - I co-negotiated a $11.2m Maori land settlement package on land that wasn't our family's - and got paid $210 for it.
5 - I once wrote a press release about extracting semen from bees
6 - I do cross stitch because it is relaxing
7 - blue cod livers are my favourite seafood - but they do have the propensity to make you fart.

so the rules are

• Link to the person who tagged you
• Post the rules
• Share seven random or weird facts about yourself
• Tag 7 random people at the end of the post with their links

SO NOW i TAG
MWT
macdoctor
Inquiring mind
dear john
big news
poneke
jafapete