Teenagers are not typically known to be the most communicative type – especially when it comes to conversing with their parents.
But a new television programme has revealed the unfiltered conversations that children have with their mums and dads – which cover everything from dating and sex to Snapchat and doing their homework.
Channel 4’s Taxi Of Mum and Dad, which aired on Thursday night, followed around eight families in their cars, as the parents ferried their teenagers around from place to place.
While some parents are seen coaxing information out of their children – other teenagers seem much more relaxed when it came to talking about their lives.
Channel 4’s Taxi Of Mum and Dad followed around eight families in their cars, as the parents ferried their teenagers around from place to place. On the show, mum Charlotte, (left) from Market Harborough, is seen speaking to 16-year-old Ben (right) about his love life
On the show, mum Charlotte, from Market Harborough, is seen speaking to 16-year-old Ben about his love life, suggesting he should ‘go to a gay bar to meet people’.
The teenager then reveals that he’d tried Tinder, but deleted the dating app after a week after receiving messages from five people saying ‘I’ll pick you up and go for a s**g.’
He also proudly tells her that someone called him a ‘buff ting’, explaining how it means ‘attractive, glamorous or generally pleasing’.
Later on in the show, Ben breaks down in tears after discussing the homophobic treatment he’d been subjected to at school.
Describing the abuse he received, he said: ‘They’d say you’re f*****g queer, you’re a f*****, you’re this, you’re that.
‘That was the worse thing. Just because I like a bit of willy. And it’d put me down, and make me feel like I wasn’t accepted.’
Kasey, 14, (right) from east London, is questioned by her mother about boys, after personal shopper Debbie (left) forced her to wear make-up before going to a bra fitting
He begins crying after mum Charlotte says: ‘I saw you at those times, and I’m so glad that at 16 you’ve found you, and you are you. And I can’t wait for you to take on your life and have a partner with no feeling that it’s an issue, because it isn’t.’
Giving her son a hug, she adds: ‘I’m so proud of you, Ben.’
Many of the parents on the show were keen to discuss relationships with their teenagers – despite protests from their children.
During one funny exchange, parents Sarah and Jamal, from Kent, were seen interrogating 14-year-old Cameron about her love life – asking whether she and a boy she’d been dating were ‘official’ yet.
Meanwhile, June warned her 18-year-old daughter Sarah (right) that ‘the sole object of boys on this holiday is to pull’, ahead of her trip to Kavos
Kasey, 14, from east London, is also questioned by her mother about boys, after personal shopper Debbie forced her to wear make-up before going to a bra fitting.
She firstly explains that none of her friends have boyfriends and when her mum asks her whether any of them have had sex, she shoots back: ‘No, they’re 14!’
Meanwhile, June and her 18-year-old daughter Sarah are seen discussing her upcoming party holiday in Kavos, Greece, including a booze cruise she was going on.
June warns her daughter ‘You know the sole object of boys on this holiday is to pull?’, to which Sarah replies: ‘What if I wanted to be pulled?’
19-year-old Maddy, from Guildford, got very frustrated as she tried to describe to her father the ins and outs of Snapchat
During the programme, 14-year-old Cameron (centre) was interrogated about her love life
Sarah later confesses to her mother that she’d told a ‘porky pie’, by going on a date with an 26-year-old man without telling her.
However, her revelation was nothing on 19-year-old Caine’s – who was forced to tell his mother that his girlfriend was pregnant.
After giving her son a lecture about using contraception, Claire, 36, joked: ‘I’m sure I’m in the top ten of the Guinness World Records for being the youngest ever grandmother.’
While sex and relationships was a main topic of conversation on the show, one teenager was seen getting very frustrated as she tried to describe to her father the ins and outs of Snapchat.
Meanwhile, Kamar was seen lecturing 17-year-old Khadija and 19-year-old son Hasan about the importance of their education
19-year-old Maddy, from Guildford, attempted to describe to baffled dad Glyn what a ‘Snapchat streak’ is, before exclaiming: ‘How do you not understand!’
Meanwhile, one father was seen lecturing his children about the importance of their education.
Kamar and his 17-year-old Khadija, from Harrow, were seen debating in the car about whether she should study for eight hours a day – with the teenager suggesting just two hours was enough.
Later on in the show, the strict father is seen telling his 19-year-old son Hasan that he’ll ‘fall behind on life’ if he carries on missing lectures.