Parents Under Pressure - BBC2

[citizenED]

Anyone see this: Parents Under Pressure. Loved the working parents of those twins. Sheesh.

[Saila]

Parents?! I like how they used that word

... It's 'MUMs under pressure'

And this sort of program fuels the pressure

I have to admit I turned this off through boredom but I didn't see a Dad being interviewed once... So predictable

[CFM]

This programme made me angry. Full of cliches and a massive guilt trip to boot.

[Saila]

Completely agree: 'get back to the kitchen sink' stuff

What riles me is that men weren't mentioned ! It's all *our* fault. Rising self harm and depression must be linked to woman having a life...

In the same way that erm... Scooter sales have gone up? Does that mean scooters cause children to self harm?

That program probably caused a load of mums to self harm after watching it

Hmmm... I think it may have made me angry too :)

They had mums on there with serious issues and problems in the home

And then made out that their issues somehow represented modern mums today

Anyway, perhaps the ending was better...

[citizenED]

Yeah, I thought it a very lazy, cheap trick type programme with all the cliches. I didn't watch it with full attention - I had it on the iplayer whilst I happily carried on with my kitchen chores.

Shame because this whole area of bringing up children is so rich and multi-faceted with such a depth of research and inciteful opinion, but all the BBC could find was the extreme cases, the typical journalistic deception.