Posts Tagged ‘ parenting ’

Essential Parenting Skills

Mar 30th, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Humour

At long last, we leave the dark days of winter.
We change the clocks: spring forward, fall back.
That’s one of those traditional stories people use to terrify children, isn’t it?  Spring forward, get impaled on an enemy’s spear and fall back screaming with blood pouring from a gaping wound as you gurgle your last [...]



Chicken or Egg?

Apr 9th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Crime

You might have heard of the recent Fitzgerald Report on regenerating a number of troubled areas in Limerick. Squid included some local reaction to it, including this gem from a Father Pat Hogan, who’s based in the Southill area.
Where you have acute income poverty, you have poor literacy, truancy, poor parenting skills and all [...]