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Didn't realise this thread had been dormant for so long. Anyway.......

Just my children in general. I honestly can't believe I worried so much when I was younger that my own parents were really angry at me. I spend about 90% of my time trying to suppress laughter when I am telling them off as they are just hillarious. Particularly my daughter, even when she does something wrong there is literally no malice in her and I can't keep up any pretence of being angry at her for more than a few minutes.

It surely can't just be me. Is parenting really just about doing the right thing and telling a child off whilst secretly finding their actions funny?

I vividly remember finding my son, who was about two years old at the time, in his bedroom with the talcum powder bottle he'd nicked from the bathroom. He'd discovered that banging it on the floor caused big puffs of powder to spurt out the top of the bottle.

You can imagine my face when I walked into his bedroom, finding this two year old with the biggest smile on his face and the whole room covered in talcum powder. I had to go downstairs to hide my laughter and told his mum to go up and give him a telling off, because I was incapable of doing so.

FWIW, she couldn't manage it either.