Hello, I'm Rob Beckett and I'm Josh Willickham.

Welcome to Parent in Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like

to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky.

So, to make ourselves, and hopefully you, feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week you'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping.

Or hopefully how they're not coping.

And we'll also be hearing from you, the listener, with your tips, advice and, of course, tales of parenting woe.

Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times where none of us know what we're doing.

Hello, you're listening to Now, that's what I call Parenting Hell, Volume 5.

So, have you had any big bust-ups then with your teenager?

Yeah, we've had loads of rails, yeah.

And anything in particular that's a bit of a sticking point that it's not getting resolved,

who keeps cropping up?

Me breathing, me waking her up in the morning.

So what's your schedule?

I get her up.

Now we're back at school.

In the Easter holidays, she was sleeping until gone 11, 12 most days. I've been getting her up now by nine, like with some attempt to have some structure. Yeah. And she'll get up and sort of get on with it. But yeah, she'll do the morning. Both of them do the morning. They do their work in the morning. And then to be honest, it's pretty much done by lunchtime. Whether they're doing it or not, I don't really know. This is the thing we're finding. There's a lot of parents who are homeschooling and are saying they're just knocking it out in the morning. Yeah. Do you think schools are a bit long? I think a lot of what goes on in school isn't the academic learning anyway. It's all the other stuff around it. and that's what I'm feeling sad that they're missing out on, really. The academics, I just think that's just data, isn't it? I mean, they'll retain that often. Otherwise, if teaching was just about, like, learning information, there wouldn't be schools. They'd all be doing open university, wouldn't they, from age four? Yeah. But, like, they need to go to school. They need to see their mates.

They need to sort of have their little feuds even.

It's all part of their development.

But she said to me the other day,

Mom, why are you so aggressive?

I'm like, that's my brand.

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