Since the Buffista parents are having problems with the sprog at various ages, perhaps the job of raising them could be split up - someone who's really good with infants takes over any Buffista infant and then, at the next stage, passes them on to the toddler specialist. Whoever takes the teens gets a bonus, like combat pay.

It takes an island. Buffista Island. I'll go get a lottery ticket, maybe that'll help us get it started.

Since the Buffista parents are having problems with the sprog at various ages, perhaps the job of raising them could be split up - someone who's really good with infants takes over any Buffista infant and then, at the next stage, passes them on to the toddler specialist.

That's basically the old kibbutz system.

So who's the teen specialist?

Ming the Merciless?

I'll take them when they turn 30. Not so much a specialist with any earlier age group.

I have no children expertise, but I'm good at sitting around talking about how my niece is the cleverest and most awesomest little girl in the history of the world.

So we learnt today that our lawyers had done almost no work at all on our house sale, while lying to us that we would be able to complete the sale by early July. Bastards. Fortunately, our new lawyer is a Buffy fandom friend who's doing great work to get things sorted out. (And it's so much fun getting legal-speak letters from someone I knew when we were both nineteen and could drink a bottle of vodka between us on a fairly average night.)

Thank heavens for a good physical therapist.

Totally! I can't afford to see my decent one very often (and the NHS physiotherapists are very "Do these exercises, then go away and stop bothering us"), but she's just great.

So who's the teen specialist?

I'll take a stab at it. I work better with things I can somewhat rationalize with. I am also fluent in bullshit.

Laura is an amazing mom and I'm sure that whatever elder son is doing is 100% due the blood in his brain being cut off what with his HEAD IN HIS ASS.

Old Spice Man on Ellen. He seems like kind of a goober, which is cute.

I'll take a stab at it. I work better with things I can somewhat rationalize with. I am also fluent in bullshit.

Several of the clients I work with at the group homes are stuck in the teen mentality. I might be able to be your assistant.

Laura is an amazing mom and I'm sure that whatever elder son is doing is 100% due the blood in his brain being cut off what with his HEAD IN HIS ASS.

So true. One of my brothers had his head stuck in his ass for a couple years from about 18-20. Miraculously, he survived, and now has a son whose young-adult head is direly in need of rectal-cranial inversion therapy.

One of my brothers had his head stuck in his ass for a couple years from about 18-20

This was me for a while - mostly 21-23, I think. I was just totally self-absorbed and thought my parents were just stupid. Thankfully, I can through it okay.