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Granny takes a good slug of coffee and settles back in her chair.

‘You asked what has gone wrong with the way children are raised today – well, I think lots of you are doing a very good job, actually.’

Oh, well, thank you very much. Time for a communal pat on the back methinks … Oh, hang on – hold the patting, there’s a ‘but’, …

‘But one of the main things that’s happened is that you have stopped treating children as they need to be treated.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Well, as so many of you seem to have forgotten somewhere along the very busy line, childhood is the time before adulthood. That may sound obvious, but it doesn’t seem to be the case any more.’

It doesn’t?