Results tagged “teenagers” from Birmingham Mail - Bad Dad

I'VE just watched a fascinating programme entitled The World's Strictest Parents that should be compulsory viewing for all mums, dads...and children.

Take two stroppy teenagers, throw in a couple of all American boys who never done no bad and then add their amazing parents into the cocktail and you've got the recipe for gripping TV.

Dad is a good cop, bad cop combination of an SS officer and Ned Flanders from the Simpsons.

And here's the rub. His approach seems to work.

WE'VE just returned from a two week break - and to be honest I'm glad to back in the office.

Spending time with a hormonal 15-year-old boy in a hotel in the searing heat is, take my word for it, absolute hell.

For starters they are NEVER EVER happy or contented and are ALWAYS hungry.

I remember once watching the marvellous comedian Dave Allen mimicking his children scouring the fridge for food.

Like little Nearnderthals he told how they flung open the fridge door with the barely intelligible chant of "anythingdecentinere" usually following by the wail of "theresnevereanythingdecentinthebloodyfridge".

I laughed along with my favourie Irish comic, little knowing that his impression would come back to haunt me.

MY ELDEST lad wanted a new pair of jeans at the weekend so naturally I was treated to around two hours of charm, which included tea making and general compliments.

When we went to look at the items in question they were black and seemingly made of cardboard...in fact, like the kind of jeans that I used to wear as a kid that stood up on their own.

Just one difference - the price tag of £60.

We decided against the purchase, largely because I refused to spend that amount of money on jeans that always seem to end up halfway down his backside, with his (designer) boxers showing.

God I feel old!