Kalle_M
Old Salt
Ho, ho, ho. What a little ++it [insert "w" or "sh" at the beginning of the word according to preference] you are. I notice you included the word "encourage" in your post. I never encouraged anything, it just happened. You don't seem to ask the obvious question as to why the kids felt easier confiding in me than in their own parents. Could it have been because their parents never let them be who they wanted to be, but tried to mould them into being who the parents wanted them to be? Or perhaps it's just your envy that your own kids don't seem to want to confide in you. Of course, with that I mean the kids of yours who haven't been taken into care yet.So you got your kids to encourage their friends to come around yours for "help". Did you also have a big bag of werthers and tell them anything that went on was your little secret?
MsG