Parenting masterclass!

Newspapers (Daily Mail) keep telling us how Britain is failing, society is broken and parents are failing kids. Well I take all of that with a pinch of salt (maybe its because I live in quite a rural village and one robbery would constitute a crime wave). But sometimes you see parents failing kids in action! I've probably seen this loads of times but one incident opened my eyes to the damage some parents are doing to their children. This incident I speak of is one that still strikes terror into my heart! It all began on an autumn afternoon when I was waiting for a train at Salford Cresent train station, also on the platform was a young mum, her boyfriend and what seamed to be the grandmother. Both ladies were wearing beautiful valour tracksuits, one in a baby pink if I remember correctly (these should be banned!) anyway the kid was kicking up a bit of a fuss (probably saw that it didn't have a chance, was trying to escape and throw itself on the tracks!). So to calm the child down the Gran leaned over the pram and began to sing what at first I thought was a sweet lullaby, but oh no, she proceeded to sing to the child No Limit by 2Unlimited!! I was shocked and to this day think that it must be a figment of my imagination, but then who could make up something like that up! That was quite a few years back, but the other day another parenting masterclass came along. Again at a train station (maybe a trend here!) 3 kids, a gran and their Dad (I think Dad anyway, he was pretty young though!). All 3 kids had picachu backpacks on one looked up to dad and said something like "I gonna put picachu down here" or something along those line to which the Dad replied along the lines of "how about I kick picachu in the head!" You have to laugh! Another great parenting theme is drinking while pregnant, I have never seen it in real life but it must be rife if Carling has to put signs like the one below on cans, maybe these people cant read and need a visual representation!