Avoid reminding your son how foolish it was to stay up late the night before.
It was a truly calamitous decision, making him and his hapless son, James, look decidedly foolish and weak-willed.
On her expiration date, her eldest son — a sad and foolish man with a half-baked interest in Islam — will become the head of the Church of England.
Instead, he sends his foolish, barely grown son Travis (Haley Joel Osment) to see it and report back — but Travis, once in Hollywood (and out from under his father's watchful gaze), catches the Hollywood spirit and turns into an arrogant and depraved little tyrant, whose unslaked sexual appetites and raging jealousy threaten to sink Vince's film.
There is amusing work, too, from Harry Melling as the other son, Sean, a streetwise – or foolish – drug pusher, and Kate Lamb as Cora, who attempts to go straight as a trainee caterer and ponders questions such as: "What is the role of finger food at a social function?" It is all good, filthy fun.
As I snapped to and realized that my son might be doing something foolish, the sounds of my daughter wailing for her brother to not run pierced my soul.
"His political views were far removed from those of his sons, and pretending otherwise is foolish," writes Ali.
The more radical voices in his son's circle said Yakhya had been foolish to look to the courts for vindication in the first place.
The foolish first earl and his impetuous son Hotspur played a decisive part in bringing down Richard II in 1399 and came close to destroying Henry IV in 1403.
Mr. Osment said that his son, now 19 and attending New York University, "did a foolish thing" by partying "a little bit too much" before going to college.
