Television adverts for dishwasher tablets end with this advice, which appears to require parents to distance themselves from their offspring.
‘Keep away from children,’ say the adverts on the screen.
It seems a good idea – I mean, you don’t know where they’ve been…
We’ll try to do it, but they’re ours and we have to keep them clean:
Could we spray them with a hose and keep some distance in between?
But even then, as parents, we must feed them properly too –
Should we throw their daily meals to them, like animals in a zoo?
I don’t think they’d enjoy it, but what else can we do?
We’ll ignore those TV adverts, and their daft advice eschew!