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loobylou
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kenyancowgirl wrote:I watched the last few minutes... I hate it...the kids are not having a normal upbringing, the parents are, in the main, horrid....they treat them like lab rats not children, and I don't think it should be encouraged on national tv. It is like a visual representation of the worst helicopter parents.....I am sure it is edited to show the parents in the worst light, however, I do wonder why any parent would allow themselves to be shown on this as none of them come off well, in my humble opinion.
You're absolutely right although there's usually one "acceptable" family - this year that's presumably Oscar's. I agree though that it's scary to see those parents. (I had an interesting experience at the school fete this year, watching one of my children running a stall aimed at young children - just aiming at targets - and I was shocked how many parents were telling my child "you're not doing it fairly, he's younger so he should stand closer" and really pushing their children to try and "win". Ds was bemused and kept trying to explain it was just meant to be fun. I think maybe there are more pushy parents out there than I realised).
Guest55
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I cannot bear the programme and would ban it if I could. Most of the parents should be reported to the NSPCC imho.
Ricky74
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It's the stuff of Roald Dahl
Catseye
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I have a brilliant DD who was always destined for a grammar school but suddenly at the most critical moment has forgotten how to algebra ! :o

I don't know :roll: you leave them alone for a moment in charge of professional teachers and they go backwards !

What's going on ?
mike1880
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I watched some of the first series. Never again. It's just Jeremy Kyle for the middle classes: dysfunctional families as entertainment.
Catseye
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mike1880 wrote:I watched some of the first series. Never again. It's just Jeremy Kyle for the middle classes: dysfunctional families as entertainment.
Welcome , brother , to the most dysfunctional family in Cheshire - now can have 15 minutes of glory ??

The Catseye family have always been up the junction, they get it from me :lol:

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said "you are a lady"
"Perhaps" she said. "I may be"

We moved in to a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

I do apologise I think the stress of A levels result day is turning me batty.

Next distraction, please.
Aethel
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Oh dear. Showed my DChild the some of first episode of Child Genius and instead of being filled with joy and aspiration, he says he doesn't want to go on it himself because "it might be boring" and then he IGNORED THE PROGRAMME and went back to modelling 3d shapes out of Mobilo. He didn't even want to do his Latin-names-of-fruit flashcards...

Weeps. What have we done wrong?
kenyancowgirl
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Post by kenyancowgirl »

I've been wracking my brains since I caught the end of the first episode...and then it came to me...Fabio and Olivia's mum is Diane Abbot's doppelganger....
pushymother
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kenyancowgirl wrote:I've been wracking my brains since I caught the end of the first episode...and then it came to me...Fabio and Olivia's mum is Diane Abbot's doppelganger....
Exactly what I said to my DH :lol:
RedPanda
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On holiday this summer, my recently turned 3 y/o (and avid fan of the BBC's Numberblocks program) put himself in charge of pressing the lift buttons. One day we were joined by a fellow holidaymaker who asked for floor 8. Without thinking I asked DS to press number 8, which he did. After an audible gasp from the nice lady, she asked him how old he was. He replied, "I like bananas."

To be fair, he does like bananas.
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