Other Peopleâs Kids Are Annoying
How to enforce house rules when youâve got company.
Credit.Sarah Mazzetti
April 14, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET
Because I am a parenting columnist, fellow moms and dads will often whisper off-the-record complaints to me. A recurring issue in the pandemic era has been how much they really do not enjoy their childrenâs friends. I have heard elementary school kids called names that are unprintable in this fine family newspaper. Thatâs because parents are beyond frustrated with the second-graders in their home who would, for example, prefer to lie down on the floor, shouting, rather than sit attentively during distance learning.
The Lilycroft Hotel in Manningham, with Lister’s Mill chimney behind IN the latest of his look backs at old pubs in the city, Dr Paul Jennings, author of The Local: A History of the English Pub and Bradford Pubs, focuses on the Lilycroft Hotel: The same research at Bradford Council’s Housing Department many years ago which found the photograph of the Fitzgerald Arms in my recent piece also turned up this one of the Lilycroft Hotel in Manningham. Its location is instantly recognisable from Lister’s colossal mill chimney in the background. Samuel Lister sold a plot of land to Thomas Cowling, a manager at the works, in 1871. That was the year in which the old Manningham Mills burned down, following which the present vast premises were constructed.