To ask what type of parent would you be matched with on wife swap

[Millsbills]

Rewatching some classic wife swap earlier, first time watching when actually a wife/mother myself.

it got me wondering what type of person I’d be matched with to swap.

For those that don’t watch it, families are usually matched based on being polar opposites. Think tiger mum swapped with a mum who hasn’t managed to get her kids into school all year, a woman who has organised their wedding down to the height of the grass and a woman who is planning to get married in a weeks time with no prep.

So I’m wondering, what type of parent/partner do you think you’d be ‘matched’ with. Who would be the ying to your yang?

A very strict one, I suppose.

I thought I’d have no issue being firm. Turns out I am terrible at it and my toddler runs rings around me.

Someone that is organised and tidy (I’m working on it).

I’d be matched with a stepford wife
i couldn’t be less of one if I tried!

Probably someone off mumsnet 🤣
I don’t fit in here with mist of the parents on here.

Probably exactly the kind of parent I wish I was, rather than the kind I actually am 😕

Someone with very strict routines that must be stuck to and has a husband she has to treat like one of the children or she has to do it all.
Helicopter parent where school and hobbies are concerned.

I think in order to qualify for WS you had to be extreme in your parenting, either very relaxed or very strict. I don't think average, reasonable people make for good TV! I did love that show, where are you watching it OP?

Someone very tidy and bossy! They'd cook all the meals do all the cleaning and tell everyone what to do.

Wasn't there a celebrity one where two couples were lesbians and one couple that was put together drove each other mad cause they were both bossy and demanding but the other couple were both lovely and had a great time together?

I remember there were Celebrity ones. Some poor soul got that awful racing pundit who called his wife ‘booby’ and he was vile.

Someone who is very laid-back with no routine and untidy.

Edwina Currie!

And John Mccririck

That’s him! He was horrible. He’s no longer with us.

Someone who hoovers every day and always puts the washing away straight away. Someone who leaves their child to cry at night.

Someone with a 'everything grey' house

I would be swapped with my sil....no thank you 😊

From what I remember, Booby was also pretty horrible too!

Someone who thi ks neurodivergence is all down to shoddy parenting and that if you're strict enough it'll just go away like magic.

It would end up in fisticuffs over the hotel conference room table after I point out that their DC is buckling under the pressure of masking and they tell me that my DC needs a good hiding not a label.

I'd be dragged out by security while screaming "this is why no one likes you, Brenda!"

Yes it was quite a while ago but I didn’t like either of them much!

A liberal MNetter who thinks it's fine for 13yos to play 18 rated films, that it's OK for 14yos to have sex and drink as they're nearly 16 anyway, who thinks all 11yos should just be able to organise themselves and do homework / revision without help.

Probably a hippy type. I'm imagining a vegan, anti-vax, yoga practising homeschooler with no TV.

This is a great question, I'd be matched with someone who lets the children eat loads of junk food and doesn't bother cleaning or tidying up, someone extremely laid back. I'm uptight about eating healthy food, like to live in a clean house, and worry about DC getting hurt or abducted when we are out so always have one eye on them. Probably the person I was matched with would be unemployed as I work FT in a big ass job which is tiring and it would open my eyes to how wonderful life could be if you chill out and don't work!

Probably with somebody who is BFF with their kids, disorganised and without a routine.

The money I’d pay to see that!!

I can imagine ‘this is why no one likes you, Brenda’ Merchandise flying off the shelves!!