I wonder if the BBC will allow the Trini parents to use the belt, the wooden pad or the guava whip in these episodes.
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DO you consider yourself to be one of the world's strictest parents? Well then, take out your belt, because the world's largest broadcasting corporation is looking for you to tame two unruly British teenagers. The UK-based British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is looking for role model parents from Trinidad and Tobago, an advertisement in the newspaper said on the weekend. "There are as many ways of raising children as there are countries in the world-but are some methods better than others?" the website for the programme Twenty-Twenty Television questioned yesterday. "We are looking for conservative families who would be willing to accommodate two teenagers for one week at the beginning of March 2009 and have their experience filmed by the BBC," the ad stated. The website added, "Enforcing the rules isn't easy, even for parents used to being obeyed. But as the week unfolds, living with strict boundaries and enforced consequences will produce genuine emotional journeys and personal turnarounds in these kids' behaviours. Time away from home gives the teenagers an opportunity for reflection on how poorly they treat their parents in England, while the denial of cigarettes and alcohol combined with a daily routine of compulsory chores and family meals lets them realise just how little they do to enhance family life at home." The ad said it wanted participants to instil in the kids "values and morality you demand from your own children". The British teens will be expected to attend school, complete homework and help with household chores, and "will not be guests in your house but new members of the family", the ad stated. "Each week two teens leave their own fraught family lives to spend 10 days living under the rules and roofs of some of the World's Strictest Parents. From Jaipur to Jamaica and Accra to Alabama, unruly Brits have collided head-on with the daily discipline, educational values and unflinching strictness of parents who believe that enforcing strict rules and firm discipline is the only way to raise a well-balanced child," the website stated. In the last series, the BBC sent teenagers from the UK to live with role model families in Jamaica, India, Ghana and South Africa. ... |
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Comments: If you want to apply to the above programme, please send your contact details to hostattwentytwentydottv and someone will get right back to you. Alternatively please check out our website at www.twentytwenty.tv there is a clip from last years series!