MM is quite correct, although I have no personal experience of mutton-head stew!
As a primary school teacher (about to retire, thank God) I agree that many children are not used to doing what their parents tell them to do. When I apply the school rules strictly, some of them are initially quite shocked.
Unfortunately, some of them twist their parents around their little fingers and insist that they come in and assure me what little darlings they are.
That's the real problem: the current generation of parents.
As a primary school teacher (about to retire, thank God) I agree that many children are not used to doing what their parents tell them to do. When I apply the school rules strictly, some of them are initially quite shocked.
Unfortunately, some of them twist their parents around their little fingers and insist that they come in and assure me what little darlings they are.
That's the real problem: the current generation of parents.