Child psychology
About ten years ago I worked on English language summer camps in Spain; basically so the parents who had the money could offload their offspring onto someone else for a couple of weeks during the summer holidays. We took kids as young as 8 or 9, up to about 17. Anyway...

There was a 9 year old called Bruno who was he most obnoxious, foul-mouthed little brats any of us had ever come across. He spent his first morning insulting all the other kids, so by the end of day one, even the most mild mannered, understanding ones would have nothing to do with him.

He also enjoyed putting his hand up the girls' skirts and grabbing their tits if they were old enough to have any, then running to the nearest monitor in tears expecting sympathy when he got hit.

When we finally got to meet his parents and tell them the trouble he'd had (and we didn't tell them the half of it) they just said "Well we think it's important for him to express himself."

They were both child psychologists.
(lolwhites, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:22, 9 replies)

they had tits
up their skirts?

I've been made wrong :(
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:24, closed)

Obviously
He had long arms for his age
(lolwhites, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:25, closed)

Maybe they were doing handstands

(Bazongaloid, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:26, closed)

"putting his hand up the girls' skirts and grabbing their tits"
Long arms.

EDIT: I got mine in first!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:24, closed)

I have a theory
that Child Psychologists, in the main, exist only to provide themselves with a decent customer base for when they branch out into being adult psychologists.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:32, closed)

Plausible
But fucking up your own offspring to provide work to a future adult psychologist is pushing it just a tad imo.
(lolwhites, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:35, closed)

on a related note...
every child whose parents are teachers that I have known has been a total wanker - either spoilt rotten in that "let them express themselves without boundaries" way, or neurotic as hell because they were brought up like automatons and had to be perfect.

Personally, when a kid acts like that around me, I cuff it round the head or yell at it until it stops acting out - then if the parents moan, I say "I am just expressing myself". You usually get a round of applause from the onlookers.
(Chad, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:38, closed)

I'm stealing that
Now to lie in wait for an ill-behaved child.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 9:17, closed)

I would have smacked that kid
And then both the parents. Consider this message clicked.
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:50, closed)