Lesson for life

I HAVE chuckled at the embarrassing things that young children write in their schoolwork about their parents and home life (Mail).

I went to a parents’ evening when my son was eight and all he had written in his diary for every day was: ‘Went home, had my tea, watched TV.’

I tackled him when we got home saying: ‘That isn’t what you do every night. Why didn’t you tell the truth?’

He replied: ‘I’m not telling them everything about my home life. They just want to know what goes on here!’

He was absolutely right. He’s now 40 and still keeps his cards close to his chest. DIANE WORlEY, Portland, Dorset. I FEEL for the mothers who enjoy a tipple and are embarrassed when their children write about their hangovers (Mail).

My husband worked as a wine and spirit sales rep for many years.

When asked by her teacher to write about what her father did for a job, our nine-year-old daughter wrote: ‘My daddy goes in this pub and then he goes in another and then he goes in another!’

We don’t know what the teacher thought. l. SHAW, Broad Oak, East Sussex.