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

- - a-edwards said
  - 25 Jul 2013
    10:52 pm
That actually looks sooo funny

- - ginoula5 said
  - 20 Jul 2013
    6:35 am
I saw this movie, it was hilarious. Barbra Streisand was wonderful in it.

- - rachkap said
  - 07 Jul 2013
    3:18 am
What about when they embarrass you?
- kjgarner replied
  
  08 Jul 2013 , 9:09 pm
  Exactly, we have to embarrass them first before they do to us!
- - rose77 said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    11:52 am
I have saved the embarassing photos for my daughters 21st, which is in 3 weeks. lol.
I am happy to say my oldest kids (17 and 20) and their friends think Im ‘cool’. One happy cool mumma here.

- - lovi said
  - 01 Jul 2013
    1:43 am
no old photos hmmmm ok 😛

- - cinta said
  - 30 Jun 2013
    11:33 am
I thought as parents we have the right to embarrass them..lol
- ginoula5 replied
  
  21 Jul 2013 , 2:06 pm
  lol too true, I know was embarrassed one too many times lol
- - jodie80 said
  - 29 Jun 2013
    8:56 pm
Don’t show old photos .. That the best thing about 21st.
- rachkap replied
  
  24 Jul 2013 , 4:14 am
  I agree completely with you!
- - zowieh said
  - 29 Jun 2013
    6:00 pm
this looks awesome. ill have to watch it

- - lynzstevo said
  - 29 Jun 2013
    10:50 am
Going to watch this this weekend! 🙂

- - jodimummy said
  - 29 Jun 2013
    8:34 am
Thanks for the top tips! I’m glad my little ones are too young to be embarrassed yet’

- - natct said
  - 28 Jun 2013
    11:02 pm
I hope my kids are the exception

- - jodie80 said
  - 17 Jun 2013
    8:54 pm
Looks good i would have love to see it.

- - zowieh said
  - 17 Jun 2013
    12:52 am
I havent seen this either. i would love to now tho 😀 Thanks hun

- - lynzstevo said
  - 11 Jun 2013
    7:09 pm
Lol I love these tips! Will have to keep them in mind for when my kids are older! Haven’t seen the movie but it looks funny.

- - tammykilby said
  - 04 Jun 2013
    1:51 pm
great tips this movie looks really funny, my have to hire it now.

- - cairnsy77@gmail.com said
  - 30 May 2013
    4:13 pm
i watched this movie not long ago it was sooo good we had a great laugh shes quite embarrasing my son actually said a few time please dont do that to me mum when i grow up

- - twinkletoes said
  - 29 May 2013
    3:01 pm
Thanks for the tips. The movie looks like a good laugh.

- - solere04 said
  - 28 May 2013
    8:00 pm
I am already too cool for my kids! They love it!

- - jaimilayt said
  - 28 May 2013
    1:34 pm
Haahahaha haven’t seem this movie yet and their only little so no embarrassing moments for them yet

- - tobysmummy said
  - 27 May 2013
    6:51 am
My tip – don’t arrive to pick the teenagers up from high school with the wiggles blaring oitvo the stereo 😉