How To Be Cool With Your Kid - Top 5 Tips

To celebrate the release “The Guilt Trip” on 24th January, we give you our top 5 tips on how not to embarrass your offspring, so if your kid has ever moaned at you for making them cringe or at times just gets inexplicably aggravated by you, you had better look at our list of parental no no’s below…

How To Be Cool With Your Kid – Top 5 Tips:

1. Don’t show old photos showing them, or their friends, how cute they were when they were young or the funny ‘bowl cut’ that they used to have.

2. Don’t tell embarrassing stories about them in front of their peers – keep it to yourself that they wet themselves in the middle of a school trip and you had to come and collect them with a spare pair of undies when they were nine.

3. Don’t do public displays of affection. When you meet them at the airport and you spot them in arrivals, avoid shouting their name and showering them with kisses. It’s just not cool.

4. If your friends are round, don’t call your child into the room to introduce them and make a spectacle of them, trying to explain what it is they do for a living when you don’t really understand yourself!

5. Don’t add your child as a friend on Facebook and leave notes of motherly affection on their wall or comment on their photos for all to see. They really won’t thank you for it.

So there you have it. Those are our top 5 tips on how to be cool with your kids. Who knows, if you stick by these rules, maybe you’ll be invited on their next road trip too…

Mouths of Mums have an exclusive clip for our members “Dinner with Friends” which shows an embarrassing mum (Barbra Streisand) in action!

Come along for the ride of your life when “The Guilt Trip” releases in cinemas, 24 January 2013

Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, and who better to accompany him than his overbearing mother Joyce. After deciding to start his adventure with a quick visit at mom’s, Andy is guilted into bringing her along for the ride. Across 3,000 miles of ever-changing landscape, he is constantly aggravated by her antics, but over time he comes to realize that their lives have more in common than he originally thought. His mother’s advice might end up being exactly what he needs.

Upcoming comedy release The Guilt Trip stars Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand. Set to release in Australia 24 January 2013.

Watch the trailer here

For Facebook news on the title visit: https://www.facebook.com/ParamountPicturesAU

94 Comments

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 31 Oct 2013
    1:18 pm
loved this movie, it was a blast

- - rainbownerds said
  - 30 Oct 2013
    12:19 am
haven’t seen this movie, it does sound funny

- - meimei said
  - 26 Oct 2013
    4:46 pm
Top 5 tips for how to be cool with your kid – love it.

- - liz007 said
  - 20 Oct 2013
    10:31 am
I have done all of the above wow. Not cool. .. Okay I can live with that. …

- - meltingmoment said
  - 02 Oct 2013
    1:03 pm
I must be an uncool mother as I have done some of the above to mine.

- - tinkz said
  - 20 Sep 2013
    9:34 pm
Ha ha ha i loved that movie

- - omgjag31 said
  - 18 Sep 2013
    6:58 pm
Looks like wing a cool parent takes all the fun out of it

- - tanya goulding said
  - 15 Sep 2013
    8:53 am
This looks like a funny movie, I think you forget the embarrassing moments parents did when you were little but it is easy to fall in the same trap with your own child!

- - hexrex said
  - 09 Sep 2013
    6:27 pm
Great article, thanks for sharing

- - tahlia w said
  - 29 Aug 2013
    10:49 pm
I like to think im a cool mum to my kids, there young and still at the age that I am cool. lol

- - missangela said
  - 22 Aug 2013
    8:43 pm
How to be cool with the kids live it.
- missangela replied
  
  25 Aug 2013 , 8:10 pm
  Oops that was love it.
- - danielle_morrisson said
  - 20 Aug 2013
    11:41 pm
Isn’t that missing out on all the fun lol.

- - kymichelle said
  - 19 Aug 2013
    2:41 pm
Oh but it’s SO much fun showing old photos and telling stories from their childhood! 😉

- - sallty said
  - 16 Aug 2013
    10:03 am
And don’t do what my friend’s MIL does and tell off your 30 year old son for swearing on Facebook!
- earthlydelites replied
  
  16 Aug 2013 , 2:56 pm
  hahahahaha! thats just wrong! who would be friends with their mum on facebook anyways!
- - tahlia w said
  - 12 Aug 2013
    8:16 pm
but isn’t it our job as parents to embarrass them like our parents did to us?

- - vikram77 said
  - 09 Aug 2013
    4:22 am
ha ha ha. I can relate to all of those 5 tips.

- - vicky_guillaumier said
  - 03 Aug 2013
    11:14 am
Ha ha ha….I have done all the above things to my kids at one stage or another. Does that make me a bad mother?

- - meros said
  - 01 Aug 2013
    11:32 am
Top 5 tips I think. I think I would hate to have my parents on my FB yet would love to have my son when he is older to see all that he does LOL
- a-edwards replied
  
  02 Aug 2013 , 7:16 pm
  Hahah that’s so funny. But true. My family all knows how to get on my Facebook doesn’t bother me
- - ksusha said
  - 27 Jul 2013
    9:01 pm
Oh my God! I felt all this when I was a kid. But maybe Ill do the same later..;)

- - kymaree said
  - 26 Jul 2013
    10:00 pm
Can’t wait till my kids are old enough to be embarrassed by me, such fun.
- kjgarner replied
  
  31 Jul 2013 , 11:51 pm
  Me to cant wait 🙂