Sounds harsh and damaging. Go up and give them a gut cut. While they are slowly and painfully dying, tell them about how white shoes went out so long ago and that they really should stop buying at a department store and instead at a real shoe place like Payless. Or how they shouldn't be wearing their socks as high as they are because they look like a friggin' retard. Or how they really need to take a shower because their feet stink.
Most people do.
Snarl at children behind their minders' backs - it toughens them for the horror ahead. Teach your children and their friends about the trials of life as soon as possible. Print out Devil Shat every issue and read it to them as a bedtime story. Give them one of those things that people put up to their throat to talk with because they've smoked too much. Hang them upside down from the wall for a day to teach them the minimal effects of harmful drugs.