The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Difference between revisions

If you happen to be wondering why emotional attachment would stop the cobbler repairing his children's shoes, that's not the reason. He's just too busy doing paying work.

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Charles Schulz, who went on to create ''[[Peanuts]]'', was said to have very bad haircuts as a kid, in spite of the fact that his father was a barber. The reason for this is said to be that he could only get a cut when the barbershop was empty, and when a customer came in he had to get out of the chair and wait before his dad could finish working on him.

* Children's author [[Enid Blyton]] wrote books about children in warm, loving families while (allegedly) neglecting her own two daughters at best and abusing them at worst. Her own daughter said of her: "The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct."

** One of the theories behind this is that the child of a church man isn't exposed to small temptations as often, so they're more likely to go for the big one when it eventually does happen. An alternative is that it's just the natural way to rebel against a straight-laced father.

** Or the [[Logic Bomb|sadly funny]] reality that many parents who care a lot about other people's kids often neglect their own children.

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