Yes, Parents or Would-be Parents! Do you fear that your child may never become rich and famous?
Is, deep down, what you most want is for your child to, one day, be in a position to perhaps buy you a nice house when you're old and grey? That's the dream most of us have, isn't it, almost as soon as we hear that first "patter of tiny feet" (!).
Yes, if we're honest, we all want a child who later becomes rich, don't we, and have you noticed that there's precious little advice around, other than to try and conceive your child around April time, or by May at the latest - at least according to the Journal of Social Sciences. So if you haven't "done it" yet, parents, now's the time to "get busy"!
Just saying!
Yes, the only real advice that I've seen that's backed up by really solid studies, is that kids born in January and February are the kids most likely to become famous, at least according to top Albanian news website telegrafi.com, reporting on a study in the Journal of Social Sciences.
Fascinating stuff, isn't it! And based on solid science, which is what my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I like most when we're trying to find useful little 'life-lessons'.
And we'd like to add our own little "rider" to the above finding, which is, to choose the right school for your little "bundle of joy" (!). It's a factor that's been overlooked, we think, unjustly, and so today it's Colin's "super-tip" for becoming the parents of famous offspring.
Just look at Eton College as an example, and I think you'll see what I mean: think Prince William, Prince Harry, David Cameron... need I say more? It isn't really rocket science is it!!!
Princes Harry and William, and two other people who look famous,
or who look as if they might become famous later
If however, you can't afford the estimated £63,000 needed to send your child to Eton, "Don't despair!" is mine and Lois's message to you today.
Because, if there's one thing that Lois and I have discovered after moving, in January, to rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, is that there are plenty of other private schools around, many of them offering a top-class education at less than Eton prices.
We stumble across two of such local schools, just on our morning walk today, where, when we emerge from the damp woodland, a suspicious looking cricket scoreboard "hoves" [sic] into view, giving away the presence of some prestigious seat of learning. And who knows whether there'll be maybe a future prime minister to be seen at times playing cricket there, when it isn't raining (!).
Lois and me on our morning walk today, stumbling over not one but two
local private schools, and a cricket field, where maybe a future prime
minister sometimes plays cricket, when it isn't raining (!)
And here's another Colin-supertip for would-be parents of future prime ministers. When choosing the school to send your child to, check the institution out on wikipedia before signing him or her up.
Lois and I are well past the age of child-bearing, last time I checked (!), but when we see a school on one of our walks we like to look it up online anyway, just out of interest, because it's fun to imagine, say, a little Bob Marley or a little John Travolta (see Telegrafi story above!) all dressed up in their little white flannels, "hitting a loose ball for six" or whatever it is that cricketers do (!).
Awwwww!!!!!
school cricket match at Highfield and Brookham School, one of the two
private schools that Lois and I stumble over on our walk today
- could one of these lads be a future UK prime minister? I wonder.....!!!!
One other thing we've noticed is that most private schools can boast two, and two only, famous alumni, and the schools that Lois and I stumble over today are cases in point.
Highfield and Brookham School, pictured above, boasts (1) top designer Sir Terence Conran, admirer and promoter of "Scandi" furniture, and founder of the Habitat chain of stylish furniture stores; also (2) Jonathan Powell, who was Tony Blair's Downing Street Chief of Staff, and is now Sir Keir Starmer's National Security Adviser.
The other school Lois and I pass by today is Churchers, which also boasts exactly two famous alumni: (1) businessman "Tiny" Rowland, who tried to buy posh London department store Harrods, but was "pipped at the post" by Mohammed Al-fayed, and (2) Arthur Brough, who played the head of menswear, Mr Grainger in the fictional London department store of Grace Brothers, in the long-running sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
So a definite "department-store" link there, which perhaps reflects some sort of bias in the school's careers department, maybe? Let me know what you think - postcards only!
There's also a clear message to parents, here, though isn't there. If the school you're thinking of sending your child to already has two famous alumni, then your child is unlikely to make the grade, so maybe you should 'look elsewhere' perhaps?
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!
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