Should there be a 'parenting' skill?

[Kaldrin]

Parenting seems to follow the course of:

First child - everything is a threat. You 'safety'-blitz everything and everyone. When the child gets a bruise you scream for blood because they slipped and fell while running in the house and we wind up with plastic coated, rounded corner worlds. This is also the stage at which you dutifully record every first, even cutting a lock of hair off the baby and putting it in a scrapbook or something.

Second child - still a bit of the first, but now that you realize you can make more the safety thing isn't such a big issue. Some things about early life are recorded, but not much.

Third and beyond - When you see your kids running along the fence top or jumping from the roof into a pile of leaves you can be heard to shout, "Put some shoes on!" Nothing is recorded.

That's parenting in a nutshell... or at least from my experience. TV did most of my upbringing.