The madness of modern families

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This is on BBC2 tonight at 8.30pm... looks interesting I thought.....

The Madness Of Modern Parenting

All parents want the best for their children but more people than ever seem to be turning into panic-stricken obsessives in their over-zealous attempts to get it all absolutely right.

As this series shows, the madness can descend on many fronts ? from competing against other parents to plan the most elaborate birthday party for their precious offspring, to the quest for the perfect family holiday.

Then there are the lengths parents will go to to get the very best for their child, whether faking church attendance for the sake of a decent school entry or spending all weekend doing their child's complicated school project, alone.

A selection of bemused mums and dads reflect on their madder moments in this entertaining, witty and affectionate look at the absurd behaviour being displayed by parents all over Britain.

Slept in the Wendy house
Damn, that programme would have cheered me up no end!

with a newborn.

but she and the other parents camping out had a barbecue and beer was also consumed so they enjoyed the experience. Allegedly.

They are not all actors cod - I recognised Lucy Cavendish (columnist) and John O Farrell.

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Knickers! I missed it. It was soooo funny last week. Was Carrie in it again? Is it her fuschia bannister .

Having paid up big time rather than sleep in sheds in Sidcup pamina, I do have an aversion to that sort of carry-on
Marcus Berkmann also a "real" person apparently.
Gosh what a media tart John O'Farrell is.

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Yeah, sleeping in a wendy house with a newborn and having a barbeque with the other parents who were insane enough to do the same thing, and all having beers in the garden. Yeah. Right. And of course the nursery owners wouldn't have got wind of this and put a stop to it. What planet do these people think we're from?

That anorexia v obesity comment was particularly bizarre. I presume anorexia is teh eating disorder of the private schools and it's obesity at the state ones?

On the pedometer thing, what if you walk to school out of your back gate, would they still measure from the front gate? Would it be possible to Appeal on that sort of basis?

I don't know if everyone who was on last night's school programme is "real" but at least one of them is - I know her in RL.

bundle, I cried all the way through that programme. Still glad I watched it. How wonderful were the Scarlets?

Oh, the bannister, Cod, you can't have missed it. One woman is filmed sitting on the stairs, and the newel post or whatever it's called, at the bottom of the stairs is like BRIGHT fuschia/cerise pink. It doesn't even match the carpet (which is probably a good thing.) Just weird. Who would paint it that colour?

oooooh twoisenough, who do you know? And is she horrid?

that naff pink bannister looked like something out of a bjork video.

Fennel - I daresay that question has occupied enough of the time of the lay-person volunteers who sit on appeal panels that if you put them all end to end they would reach the other planet on which these pink-bannistered wendy-house dwellers live .

(but I think it is stipulated front boundary'.)

were these twonks paid to moan about their so-called problems?

farkin' hell, i'm in the wrong job.

T'was crap - just a load of old urban myths regurgitated by some ( to nick Wordsmith's phrase "London media types".)

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Have put my brtacket in wrong place.

carriemumsnet, were you the one wearing the, ahem, maroon crushed velvet preg top? blonde curly mid-length hair? can't remember what you said last night, i was just staring at your delicious bump.

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