Do you remember the big hoo ha about Julie Myerson's book about her son?

[MmeLindt]

What has happened since

I found this veer sad:

The upshot was that in March of this year, he quit the course.

'They took it fairly well,' he says sadly, of his parents. 'They have become quite accepting of my ability to change my mind and screw things up.'

I'm with Ragged and WB - I don't blame her for writing the book. I read the book and these things do happen even when the greatest support and what everyone here would call "good family choices" have been made in a well-off family. I loved the Living With Teenagers column and it made me feel less alone. She shouldn't have had to give up her anonymity on that.

I'm glad they're back in touch with one another, but also that Jake is acknowledging his role in some of the problems and behaviour that occurred.

Valium, the LWT column was anonymous (and she lied repeatedly to her children and to the public about it). The book was never anonymous.

What gets to me about his mother is how she's always wailing about how she is the victim - all the way through LWT (I read the columns together when they were published as a book) she's constantly "Woe is me! How could they treat me like this when I do everything for them!" Ugh.

This woman is a narcissistic, emotional vampire. I am not surprised he has had problems

His only chnace is to get shot of his parents and quick.

I agree with roseability. She constantly put her needs above her childrens' and lied and lied again to them. She's a crap mother and a pretty awful person all round.

Did you see her trying to flirt with Jeremy Paxman on newsnight when the whole furore started but he wasn't having any of it? He asked all the questions that should have been asked and she had no comeback at all. I loved that.

Oh yes I remember it well!

He sounds very lucid and eloquent for a middle-class skunk-head - I particularly liked this:

"They both write, so there isn't even one going out to work to root everything back to normality. I think that breeds a certain form of insanity."

Sounds like he's listened to a LOT of apologetic angst. What happened to his trendy job at the NME - doing a part-time degree at Birkbeck and then dropping out doesn't augur well neither does the handsome pose for the Daily Mail.

Let's face it, he's realised (like his mum) that his "oeuvre" is The Daily Mail confessional.

Some parents find it hard to cope when children become teenagers and don't do as the parent wants them to do. They can't manage that transition. From what I read his didn't manage it too well.

He was shown the book in advance but too late to stop it and he wouldn't have easily had the funds to stop its publication and he was given some money from it but he certainly didn't give an informed consent to publication of the material.

I hope they can all sort it out.