IT IS CALLED BEING IN CHARGE

mitch album, in his weekly Detroit Free Press article, advises parents that he sympathizes with the dilemmas they face.

mitch has no kids, but he apparently feels he is as much an expert in dealing with difficult children as he is in understanding and explaining the intricacies of our American political scene.

It is our sense that he fails on both scores, again and again and again.

This universal, renaissance young man knows all and is quite ready and willing to set us all straight.

Only the task is beyond him.

Items: mitch suggests that parents cannot spank their kids these days; that they cannot deny kids their toys, cell phones, ipods, etc.; cannot even keep them home from school.
How could they face their peers w/o 'toys'? Spanking parents would be reported. Kids kept home from school would be in violation of the law.

Of course, as any effective parent knows, one can spank, moderately, at least at home, until the kids are too big and it is too late.

I was once told by an animal control person that I could not kill squirrels he had failed to catch and which were inhabitating our attic area.
I asked him, why not?
Why, he said, what would your neighbors say?

I said, I don’t care, for heaven’s sake, what my neighbors would say. I would not tell them.

And parents can deny the toys. It is called being in charge.

And parents can ‘ground’ little devils. He doesn’t even mention this option.

And the idea of keeping kids out of school is ridiculous, unless the miscreants are suspended. They probably want to be kept home anyway.

Write your books, mitch.

Prattle on about sports.

Be glad you have a city and a radio station and a listening public dumb enough to enjoy your mindless chatter.