to ask to be shot if...

[mumdrivenmad]

my DC turned out like the brats on BBC3 now?

Oh to be so rich that this would be a problem!!!!

you can be stinking rich without the stinking attitudes though

Would LOVE to find out from the "other" side!! My kids know the value of money and friendship...sometimes being poor gives you a better grounding for real life. My 10yo has a better grasp of reality than these idiots!

I think EVERYONE needs to find out what money really means by having none. If some of our MP's had been at the bottom for a few months they may understand the reality. If Portillo can scrape an egg from the floor after a couple of days give him a year and see how bad it can get! He's posh..but he fe that egg to a child ...barf!!

I am glad to say that my ten year olds do too. They would get a rocket right up their arse if they told me I had to go to the cashpoint to get them more money.

I watched this first time round - and posted about it.

Horrible little individuals they are - shrieking, foul-mouthed, selfish brats.

Parents are clueless and quite pathetic really.

Oops - must be wearing my judgey pants.

I have two grown up DC (one of whom has their own child now) who never "sat at the back of the bus" BUT they have manners, jobs, values and although sometimes "gobby" are contributors to society and stick up for others.

I despair for the youngsters on this programme because some of them are not just kids but are in their '20s. Gawd help us if they are looking after any of us in our old age!!

crikey I thought this subjct would get more discussion than this

I love this show and wached it last year too.

I am 23 and have been living with my DP since I was 16, it baffles me that epople can be like that in their 20's

Although LMFAO at Fairy liquid in washing machine, even I never did that :o

On a serious note though it is worrying, if anything was to happen to these 'kids' parents how would they survive? In a way it backs up the theory that money does'nt mean happiness. I try to give my son an idea of money and things at the moment even though he's only 4, if we go to a car boot sale or shopping we give him a couple of £'s for his purse and he goes round and we pick out things and tell him how much it costs and how much he has. Although if it something he REALLY wants then we give him the extra but that does'nt happen very often.

I would be gutted if he turned out as feckless as that lot but I guess we don't have the means to spoil him materially so in that respect we're safe (will probably eat my own words now) :o

What was the prog called? Gonna see if I can watch it on iplayer.

It was "young, dumb and living off mum"

I am going to book myself some time in front of iplayer today. This programme sounds hillarious and sad @ the same time.

You don't have to worry though, these 'children' are the creations of their parents.
Many a time I have watched the end of day meetings and greetings in the KS2 playground, or met with parents to discuss their child and come away thinking
" You are going to be in so much trouble when the teenager you are creating turns up"
More often than not, I'm vindicated.

If you allow them to be totally selfish and egocentric, treat you and others without consideration and manners, wait on them hand and foot or helicopter to the point that they have never taken a risk or attempted anything independently then the outcome is fairly predictable.
But of course, no one on MN will ever do that.

"Mum can I have that money so I can go aaaaaaaaaaaat", and another particular angel throwing a toddleresque hissy fit in a supermarket because mummy won't buy him a packet of crisps, and later throwing his dinner on the floor all at the very young age of 23, absolutely priceless.

I listened to a programme on Radio 4 the other week about older children's failure to take responsibility for their finances. Daughter was in her late 40's and kept going back to Dad to bail her out of debt. Admitted that she was expecting to inherit quite a bit when he died and that would finally sort her finances out. She hinted that quite a few of her friends were in a similar position...