I agree so much with Paula Cocozza’s perceptive comments about Kirstie Allsopp’s smashing her children’s iPads when her house rules were flouted (Shortcuts, G2, 12 September). I imagine it is not possible to smash an iPad gently, therefore violence must have been used, and I imagine in a fit of temper. Neither of these behaviours are good examples of parenting. Children are natural copiers of adults; so much of learning is by copying. And what a waste! I also wondered about children who would dearly love their own iPad, but for whom it is unaffordable. Maybe a better reaction might have been to simply and quietly confiscate these iPads and give them, or threaten to give them, to those less better off than the Allsopp family.
Catherine Roome
Staplehurst, Kent
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