Did anyone watch World's Strictest Parents yesterday

[GreenStinkingStumpSleeves]

I would just like to say how APPALLED I was by that horrible little girl from Romford - I am rarely shocked, but I have honestly never seem anyone so shallow, spoiled, selfish and ignorant

I sat there like this

Me too! She was horrific.

Her behaviour in the care home was disgusting. I missed the end as DS woke up but I wonder what her parents thought when they saw the programme, and I wonder if she has changed...

She was complaining that people should get jobs and not "ponce" off others, but then she has never managed to "hold down" a job herself!

I've seen shocking bad behaviour and selfishness before, but her....

well I didn't know there WERE people as bad as that (apart from my mother)

and she looked dreadful, she had messed around with her looks so much

what a mess!

She was vile and so ignorant, but I hope she saw sense in the end.

I wish all teenagers could see that the world does not revolve around them

I had the impression that someone had pointed out how her vile behaviour and comments were going to come across to others.

Didn't seem a genuine conversion to me I have to say.

It was wholly unconvincing

I reckon either one of the producers had a word and told her she was going to get minced in the press if she didn't turn it around

I am still in shock at how HARD she was

"get away from me, ugh, you tramps"

"they're like animals"

"I can' believe I've just stood next to someone in a nuthouse"

I didnt see yesterdays, but I did see the last series. TBH, they ARENT the worlds strictest parents, at all. It is just the contrast for the child, iyswim?

Also, the children are similar to those off "Young, Dumb and Living off Mum".

Sadly, I do think there are more and more of these selfish teens around these days. Some things are written off now as 'well, they are 14, and ALL 14 years old do it'. But really, WHY are all the 14yr olds doing it???? When did it become 'normal'? And haw sad a reflection on society is that?

Sorry Will stop ranting now!

Will have to catch up n this series! Good Viewing!

I'm looking forward to next week's episode already.

I love this series and last weeks was quite moving with the mixed race girl who wanted to be lighter skinned

-me and DH were sitting there saying 'ahh poor teenagers -life is hard'!

Agree, invisible, last night's parents didn't sem that strict at all.

I like how the strict parents are generally from the middle classes of the country so the whole programme isn't about the contrast of the stark poverty vs western indulgence.

yes! OMG! My jaw has bruises from hitting the floor so hard.

But wasn't the Buddhist priest great? When he let the angry one keep her shoes on at the temple?

and also the mum letting them have 2 cigarettes a day - I wasn't expecting that.

YY re the poverty vs indulgence thought. That is a whole thread in itself and goes back to what I was saying earlier in my rant..

Oh that girl was vile! Utterly vile!

Oddly I was watching with my 20yo dd (who was no perfect teen herself) and she didn't seem to think the girl's behaviour was so bad.

I think they were strict in their own way. They were saying 'its our house.Our rules.This is what we expect' but were prepared to compromise' they were actively parenting rather than just giving up

See Nanny, Thats what I mean. I dont think actively parenting is strict. I think it is just parenting, iygwim?

Hmm, I think the "strictest parents" thing is always going to be a bit dodgy, because most of the parents featured probably use disciplinary measures with their own children that they can't use with British teens and a film crew

sadly I think you are right about the lack of a convincing conversion Greensleeves.
I am contrasting the Lebanon one where the boy went and helped mend bikes in an orphanage and he just couldn't stop talking about it and it had clearly been a key moment for him; he had entered imaginatively into the kids' lives and was talking about what it must be like for them not having families, and he was also praising the people who devoted their lives to working for them.

Whereas you can imagine the beautician back home with her mates saying 'And I had to do nails for, like, all these retards and they were really smelly and minging.'

yes actively parenting seems strict when compared to some Western 'parenting' which is 'I can't do anything so why bother'

Myself, DH and our three teen DD's watched this last night in a state of incredulity I cant believe that she was so utterly thick that she didnt even bother to hide her narrow mindedness, shallow, and quite frankly horrific behaviour even for the cameras.

We started off being amazed at how much older and hard she looked (in her 30's) but her attitude towards everything said it all. Her mother must have been so ashamed at her words and actions outside that home. I really think she is the exception rather thant the rule though - i know some badly behaved teens (not my dd's btw ) but nothing like that nasty peice of work last night - i cant think of one nice thing to say about her!

so many of the vile teens they have on say that 'this is me and it's who I am and if anyone doesn't like it they can lump it because it's who I am' thing, where they actually sound proud about their vile behaviour - they have somehow come to confuse healthy self-acceptance with being appalling.

I think that characterises a rather unattractive part of the zeitgeist sethstark - people seem to think they should be able to get away with the most hideous selfishness by wailing "but that's who I AM"

not just teens either

agree Greeny - what gets to me most is when they're not even wailing, they're boasting, as if being unashamedly vile makes them somehow cooler/more passionate/more true to themselves than all the inauthentic mugs who go around being decent to each other. they actually think it makes them better, they really do.

Completely agree-reminds me of the torture of my schooldays when loudmouths constantly disrupted lessons for the nerds like me with inanities and revelled in being loud and thick as pig shit.

She's a real charmer isn't she?!

I thought they were both pretty vile.

I really love some of the families the teens get sent to. The gay couple in the U.S were pretty fab. Oh to have parents like that.