Hugh Grant
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The exhausting nature of parenthood under these circumstances, year after year, month after month, day after day, fighting the children, no, no, no, no, no, no, give that back, or no, we agreed you could have 20 minutes on Saturday.
And so...
It was extremely surprising and extremely depressing.
When you get emails from the school about, or the new school you've sent your kid to, saying proudly, and we give all our children their own Chromebook or their own iPad, and you just think, what?
How?
How could that be a good idea?
If school is for anything, surely they deserve just six hours off from their addiction, from this crazy addiction.
Because to people like us, honestly, big tech with its extraordinary powers seems like a drug cartel pushing its wares at children.
No. I don't know. I was probably a bit hungover and grumpy. There you go. No, no. Did I have a child with me? I've got millions. And that always makes me unpleasant.
No. I don't know. I was probably a bit hungover and grumpy. There you go. No, no. Did I have a child with me? I've got millions. And that always makes me unpleasant.
No. I don't know. I was probably a bit hungover and grumpy. There you go. No, no. Did I have a child with me? I've got millions. And that always makes me unpleasant.
Well, we think it's five. But I had them much too old in life. You know, I started when I was 52. And now, you know, I... Your first kid, you were 52.
Well, we think it's five. But I had them much too old in life. You know, I started when I was 52. And now, you know, I... Your first kid, you were 52.
Well, we think it's five. But I had them much too old in life. You know, I started when I was 52. And now, you know, I... Your first kid, you were 52.
Yeah, no, I'm 64, you know, and the youngest is six. And I need a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey. I often look at the abbey that Maria lives in in The Sound of Music and wish I lived there.
Yeah, no, I'm 64, you know, and the youngest is six. And I need a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey. I often look at the abbey that Maria lives in in The Sound of Music and wish I lived there.
Yeah, no, I'm 64, you know, and the youngest is six. And I need a long stint in a sanatorium or an abbey. I often look at the abbey that Maria lives in in The Sound of Music and wish I lived there.