Role reversal?

It's been some time since I have posted. Alas I have been working extremely hard. The pickneys have become very independant whilst the people I work with have become very dependant without an individual thought between them.

Since starting my new job in November, I have discovered things about certain colleagues that I had no need to notice before. Up untill this time although we worked in the same Unit we were in different teams and they largely inherited work that I had been involved with. However, in my current post, I currently scrutinise the work of the team and have on occassion found it lacking. This has led to tantrums, testing out and this week to a manager placing a social worker in potential danger and then lying to me about something which we had agreed he would do and which he told me he had done two weeks previously.

Can't shoot em, sack em or work with them. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

Onto a much more pleasant note. The pickney's are growing in their quest for independance. Even Demanding pickney has become less demanding. I have been struck by the realisation that by June/July this year it could be just myself and Demanding pickney at home. Bashment will be off to University and Mellow, if successful, playing football in Germany.

Maybe I have moved into a parallel universe where children are independant and able and work colleagues are reliant and need constant nurturing.