“OUR Child Is Absolutely Perfect!”

Some years, and quite a few Coffeetime Columns ago, we wrote an article called Hellion Alert. It was about Andy recounting a true incident of eating lunch in a restaurant where a small, undisciplined child was wreaking havoc while the mother ignored it all.

When the article was published in the newspapers, a few readers took exception to Andy’s opinion of the lax parenting that allowed this toddler…