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Anyone watching? Basically 3 different styles of parenting being shown from 3 familys

Where did I say I cook three separate meals Peppa ? ('m trying not to be aggressive, Marsalimay just assertive here, because like Italian I think that treating children without respect can lead to negative consequences).

I don't prepare just one ingredient of a meal; Most normal meals consist of 3 or 4 things e.g. peas, potatoes and fish finger or sausages or veggie sustitutes and or salad. I then cut them up if necessary and put in bowls which we all help themselves to.

Absolutely love the homeschooling parents. They seem sensible, and are giving informative and well thought out answers to the questions.

I love the home schooling parents. It's totally reliant on having a cool mum and inventor dad. Having a more didactic dad with too many many rules. I'd love to homeschool but my dp just doesn't get natural learning.

I'm glad the home schoolers won, but I couldn't parent like them. It seems exhausting! It only really works if you can have one parent at home and one who works from home most of the time like them. It would not work well for single parents (like me!) or where both are WOHPs. Although that's been true of most of the parents in the series. That they have had a lot more time and resources to give to parenting than must of the people I know IRL

Thank God the home educators won, I would have been quite cross if the regimented parents had won.

Absolutely loved the home educators other than their comment about them enjoying time with their children. So do most of us! My DC go to school but when they were small I was definitely like the home ed parents at the weekends

I thought all 3 families quite good this wk, nothing periculaly shocking or out there. (Not saying I agreed with all the things that were said, but nothing offensive or concearning.)

I think the regimented parents were concerning - horribly over prescriptive with no fun and frivolity, and their approach to creativity was toe curling

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I think the regimented parents were concerning - horribly over prescriptive with no fun and frivolity, and their approach to creativity was toe curling

Agreed. I also worry about how they will react if their children don't want to go into business. Everything seemed to be focused on working in that sort of environment.

The product management of making the dinner
The strict daily timetable
Micromanaging the children's time.
Wacky team building exercises
Constant use of business terminology.
Planning their art, and then presenting it as though they were pitching to investors.

It troubled me.

Yep. Poor kids

3little Home schooling works if you let the children 'get on with it'. Give them the tools to discover things and off they go. Admittedly one of the parents needs to be there.

We only did it temporarily though, DD1 was a school refuser at 4 yrs old. We let her stay at home. When she wanted to go back she did. DD2 was being bullied by her teacher. So we did the same and she wanted to return (to a different school) after a few months too. DS was a bit of a problem (G&T) we used a tutor for maths oh and a couple of private schools which weren't successful for him, he educated himself at home basically. The inspector said he could do his exams when he wanted to. Which he didn't , he went on some courses for music and is a happy musician\teacher of music, yoga teacher now. IMO and E some children can't cope with school.

I would have liked one of the audience to ask what the Homeschool Parents did for work. It's a relatively aspirational style of parenting which work would get in the way of.

He is an inventor.

She was a stay at home mum. He was an inventor but how much money does that bring in?

The thing that stood out to me was how the home Ed's child got upset when the younger girls were touching their team bridge. She didn't know how to share and I wonder if spending most of the time with your parents and siblings and getting what you want all the time is detrimental. I know they said they met with other home schoolers but I do think the day to day mixing at school teaches children vital social skills.

I couldn't choose the 'best' parents because again this week there wasn't enough information from each of the families to judge.

I probably liked the home school parents best but I'm loath to admit that because of the insinuation that parents who send their kids to school or heaven forbid get a babysitter, don't like spending time with their kids. Seem quite smug.

I thought the homeschooling parents were really smug too.
Fine if that’s your bag, but don’t slag off the majority of parents who do send their children to school and have a regular upbringing.

Yes they were smug
I couldn't quite believe the crying when she won I mean I just can't take the programme seriously I don't think it really means much if you win
I liked the 'chaos' most.

I thought it was funny that the homeschooling and regimented parents chose such similar activities (cooking and team building bridge tasks) but approached them in wildly different ways.

The homeschooling parents were great, I really liked the way they spoke to the kids. Could not cope with the organised chaos and everyone screaming and standing on chairs but I’m an introvert so xD

I found the homeschoolers smug and judgy. I liked the “chaotic” family best, though I didn’t think they were particularly chaotic. Loved their house too.

No I didn't think they were particularly chaotic either!
I mean it probably feels like that just because there's so many of them but nothing I saw made me think chaotic

PickwickThePlockingDodo that's interesting that you felt it was a negative thing (based on being home-schooled) that the older girl was uncomfortable with the task.

I felt it was completely normal that an older child (11, I think) who already lives with two younger siblings had to cope with an extra three younger kids and do a task with them, would get frustrated.

What I thought was great was that mum handled it really well and the girl came back and joined in the task. In a regular class of 30 kids with a teacher and maybe one TA the likely scenario might be that the child who was struggling would just disengage.

I could not cope with home schooling and I think in a way what the home schooling parents showed was the fun of home schooling, which maybe those of us who don't home school can manage to capture for the odd lunchtime of pizza making.

newphoneswhodis "..., don't like spending time with their kids. Seem quite smug." I know what you mean but if I am honest I could not cope with being with my kids all the time... Oh wait... at the moment I am with my kids 24/7 and it is a struggle.

I think it is bloody huge if you win, I can totally get her crying. 100 odd random people voting you the best parent out of three households. I'd love it!!

suffocating parenting, kids need to separate from their parents at times, they were so full on. And how does ‘inventor’ dad earn any money?

I also wondered about what it exactly meant by inventor as a day to day job and what that meant for money