Fair dos, the parents featured on this show were indeed some of the most cringe-makingly embarrassing people ever to have given birth. And good for them I say! It’s time we adults rebelled against the conventional, and the parental rebellion is well under way all across Britain it would seem.

Kids will always want to blend in with the crowd; whether that’s wearing the same trainers as everyone else does or having the same kind of upbringing everyone else does, but the fact is, we parents would like it known we have personalities and interests of our own, and we’re not going to sit in a corner knitting just to please you kids and to fit into your stereotypes.

Like Karim who featured last night, if we want to play air guitar and go to rock gigs, we dang well will. If we, like Jo Sperring, want to be a muscle bound pin up, well, we so will. And as Jo said last night as she strutted her stuff before her kids and one of their friends, “If I know it’s embarrassing them, I’m gonna do it just that litttttle bit more”. You go girlfriend. We forty somethings must stand together and shame our children at every turn and wherever possible. Why? Because it’s funny and because we can… Read more & comment »