Interesting responses with lots of different rules and concerns, which is to be expected. There is no right answer is there. I have less problems with the big stuff in many ways, I've made mistakes I'm sure, I can see them but I recognise they are down to my shortcomings and I decided some time ago that I should not be afraid to point out my errors to them and what that means for them. In many ways it works, in other ways it leaves difficult situations more difficult, my reasoning is exposed, my rationale undermined at least in the short term but it's a long game is it not. I am wont to remind them of that famous Philip Larkin poem and then add that Larkin was a bit of a miserable twat so not to take it literally.
Funnily enough it's the small stuff I have more trouble with, the rule setting but then I've never been one for some rules. This thread was brought about by a simple, what time to be back from the social club where my oldest plays snooker and I think it was a rule borne from my own needs, that I simply didn't want to stay up late waiting for him to come in. The same logic raises me from my bed when my youngest does his wknd paper round.
Funnily enough it's the small stuff I have more trouble with, the rule setting but then I've never been one for some rules. This thread was brought about by a simple, what time to be back from the social club where my oldest plays snooker and I think it was a rule borne from my own needs, that I simply didn't want to stay up late waiting for him to come in. The same logic raises me from my bed when my youngest does his wknd paper round.
