Ruin your child in 8 easy steps

1. Be their friend. Forget being a parent entrusted with a blank canvas that needs to be taught values, structures and principles. You don’t need to aggravate them or get them to do anything. Friends don’t irritate friends. Be that friend that takes the child to the pub because they are your friend, or whom you gossip and watch weird shows with. A friend’s duty is to support whatever their friend does.  And when they get into trouble with the world later on as adults, just hold their hands and smile at them. It is what friends do.