Dr Spock's for losers.

Last Saturday we spent with a bag-full of kids: Morwenna (4) and Tristan (some months, only a couple though) Jessica (3) and Molly (about a year).

Our mission: to entertain and wear them out before they wear us out.

It was a close thing.

It was only after the best part of a day that we discovered the best road to happiness and contentment is not letting yourself be chased on the beach (tiring), and is not going on this and that playground ride (also tiring), but is - in fact - a paper flower.

Parents, that's all you need to know.

Forget your seventh edition of "Dr Spock".

Forget those expensive unappreciated toys.

Paper flowers are the future of child-care.

Dan wins.

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