My Child's Big Fat Birthday Party BBC1 10.30pm

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Anyone planning to watch this? I am, complete with my judgey pants in place .

I'm glad my children aren't up watching this. I can't be having the 'why don't I have parties like that'

that's it hire a hall give them ballons and let them whack eachother with, much more fun and cheap too

Maybe they'll show this in class instead of the end of term DVD

Well that was fun. Night all

Now what we going to do?

Start making our lists for the next party?

im going to bed, I am reading Twilight
its a bit Mills and Boon ish

Well I'm greatly relieved that I don't have the odd £15k sitting around to throw a party for ds. After watching this programme what's not to like .

I do wonder if the Jewish guy knwew he was sharing a programme with all those other parties, can't imagine he'll be that pleased...

Start planning OnEdge.

Party bags are sooooooooooo last year.

Our Dcs will end up in therapy about deprived childhoods if we dont.

Good night all

I hear that music and I always want to go to a Jewish wedding!!

I did ask DS whether he would like a party for his 16 in the Autumn. The response I got was "yeah, I'd rather camp out in the garden with my mates".

Excellent idea and very cheap

Is it traditional for the Bar Mitzva boy to get stripper type girls to bring him in to the party. (He was a bit of a nightmare too that kid, and as the singer said, it is about the parents!)

Im off to watch something intelligent now, Britains Next top Model!!

Right, I said most of what you said last night!

Poor Anton, he looked like he had brain surgery!

That cowboy outfit????? Badly made polyester bleugh!

Anton's party didn't start until bloody 1930! They are mostly 9 ffs, after about an hour you're going to have a load of over tired whiney boys on your hands! What was the point of the inflatable quad thing when it was dark and there was no lighting to speak of? Surely, if you're going to lay out that kind of money you'd do it at the weekend on an afternoon? And a feathery basque? You're 9 year old's having a pole dance is he?????

How unprofessional was that Jimbo's bloke? Can't see many parents/guardians using that place now. Tosser. The animal people were much better imnsho.

Bar Mitzvah are a part of a right of passage and more for the parents than anyone else. The guests were mostly adult and this will be a way for the parents to:

a) Show off how well they are doing
b) Network and make contacts
c) Bring their child into 'society' in the manner of cotillion/débutante's ball

The Cub will be sadly deprived in the party area.

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wow judgey judgey thread! i bet lots of it was badly edited and the comment above about did the jewish bloke know he was sharing the programme?? wtf!

i think the parents explained quite well why they over indulged their children and to be honest lots of them are the norm now (here anyway)

i also think the bloke who was organising anton's party should watch what he bitches about on national tv considering it's his job. very unprofessional - he was a poor man's bradly walsh imo.

Blimey! I just watched this on iplayer.

Do you know, a lot of the kids didn't actually look that excited/enthralled a lot of the time?!

Poor Anton though only having 14 friends. What on earth is that about? Crazy.

roisin I agree - I actually felt sorry for some of these kids, especially the little boy whose Mum organised the Wild West party. It was so obviously done for her own benefit. I think the little lad was a bit overwhelmed by it and maybe wondering whether he could show the appropriate amount of enjoyment after the trouble his Mum had gone to.

And I am sure there was more going on then they said with Anton and his family. I mean - all that money for only 14 kids. WTF! With that venue and all those entertainers they could have accomodated 100 children easily. In the cirumstances having just 14 looked a bit sad, like he was a "Billy No Mates" or something. Why didn't they invite the whole class at least?

Actually I thought is Mum seemed a bit unbalanced, who on earth defers to a 7 yo boy's judgement on what she should wear?

I think the Bar Mitsvah was a slightly diferent case since, as others have said, this is not just a birthday but a rite of passage and probably a big family and community event.

oooh I was wondering about this. going to watch on iplayer while DD naps and will then come back and read the thread!

Oh I hate you all. I had loads to do today and then I saw this thread and just had to watch it.. how horrendous! The woman who asks her son what she should wear.. wft??

He's surely going to grow up thinking he has a say over what women wear and can tell them freely if he thinks they dont look good enough. Yuk.

And the welsh mum, she was a proper mental case.

I hope they werent MNers but I somehow think not.

And what about 'my son is the stars in the sky he's the reason i breath..'

disturbing.

I turned it off after 10 minutes for fear of shouting at the telly. I don't know why I thought I'd enjoy it, I hate spoiled kids. ugh.

I'm convinced the Welsh mum is the sister of that estate agent off Homes Under the Hammer.