Stop spoiling our children and teach them the right values

I should be wary about writing this column for two reasons, at least.

Firstly, and most regrettably, I have no children of my own. And, as a wise grandmother in Cashel warned me many years ago, it is strange how childless people always know the most — and shout the loudest — about parenting.

(You are quite right, she would not have used that word — it would have been ‘bringing up children’).