Posts Tagged Parenting

Let’s get something straight right from the get go. I don’t have any kids.

I was at my Mum’s the other night and ended up watching “World’s Strictest Parents” on BBC. It’s still available on BBC iplayer now.

The basic premise is that difficult kids will be taken out of their “normal” environment and cast headlong into an entirely stricter parental paradigm . The BBC will film it and then entertain us by putting it on the gogglebox. Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is your TV licence fee hard at work.

So I’m watching this episode and the troublesome UK teens, 17-year-old Naomi Fisher and 16-year-old Ross Torry, were sent to live with the Garnetts. A very religious southern Baptist family from Birmingham Alabama. Now the Garnetts are pretty well off and so the teenagers turn up at this massive house with some excitement.

The excitement diminishes somewhat once inside because they suddenly discover the moral code they must adhere to while living there. They have to get rid of “contraband” that contravenes the rules immediately and voluntarily including cigarettes in her case. More of which later. Then bags are searched and rules are laid down. Somehow her fashion type magazines were contraband too. Read the rest of this entry »