I took my own advice and I have updated the Tips, Tricks and Toddlers handout to the Tips, Tricks and Tweenager’s handout. I do not claim to know how to solve all SCA parenting problems, but perhaps I can make a few of your events more pleasant. There is no reason all of your events need to end this way. They could end happily like the second picture, where my son taught a bunch of adults how to make kumihimo.