The ultimate answer to subduing the wee monsters?

[ScummyMummy]

Look here!

Is she mad?!

[WideWebWitch]

This can't be real surely?!! Mind you there are days when this would come in handy

[lou33]

Rofl, I think I'll add that to my Christmas wish list

[bossykate]

this must be a spoof story, surely! it's like something out of the onion!

[emsiewill]

This reads like something out of Viz.

[Marina]

Or the Private Eye Christmas mart.
Two things spring to mind:

• Remember who posted this link
  
• And does this Andrea Brown have anything to do with the nursery in Cumbria that won't let parents anywhere near the children?

[anais]

This is sick

[janh]

No, anais, it's a spoof. Didn't you go to the link off the link?
(It's American too - read the "dialogue".)

[janh]

I mean this (English people don't talk like this - even in Cumbria!):

< Strap Down Your Bratty Kids With: Toddler Straitjackets

"Liam was into everything and he just wouldn't mind me," Andrea recalls. "One night, after a particularly bad day, I told my husband I'd had it. I said, 'The only way that kid's going to keep his hands to himself is with a straitjacket.' Then I thought, 'Why not?' "

"We got a lot of stares at first when I'd take Liam in his straitjacket to the park,">

[SoupDragon]

I don't think the phrase "he just wouldn't mind me" is an English one at all. Definitely US in my opinion.

[SofiaAmes]

I don't think us americans use the word "mind" in that context...but i've been here too long and had 2 pregnancies so who knows what's real. I wonder if they do a large version for husbands.

[robinw]

message withdrawn

[anais]

No I didn't JanH.

[janh]

never mind, love!

[Chinchilla]

RobinW - who did you have in mind? Sounds a bit like you don't like being here

[SueDonim]

Hehehe! I did have a friend who used to zip her son into his coat with his arms inside instead of through the sleeves, to stop him from being a PITA in shops.

[minimee]

Its nice to see you displaying such Christian attitudes RobinW.

[Sps]

Oh my goodness i cant believe anyone would entertain that idea. That must be so distressing to a child.

Susan

[Tinker]

Until I read this thread, I thought it was about kids who p* everywhere

[prufrock]

This story made it into the Independant On Sunday. They didn't seem to realise it was a spoof either!