What We Wish Being A Parent Was Like…

We were just talking about how Hollywood can really sanitise and saccharin-ise the hell out of being a mum or a dad – and how, growing up with fairytales as most of us did, we really want to believe that the Tinsel Town version of parenthood is real. That it’s true. That it really can be like that, all big houses and sunny days and funny, wise-cracking kids growing up surrounded by wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. Because it can, can’t it?

Well, no. No. Because, obviously, this is complete and utter bullshit. Real life bears little or no resemblance to the film version and that’s what’s wrong with it. Or is it? Maybe a great big whopping dose of fantasy and schmaltz is exactly what we all need to lighten us up. Especially when being a parent really starts to tear you a new one.

And so it is with this in mind that we challenge you to NOT raise a teensy smile at any of the moments in this trailer for that old Ron Howard film, Parenthood. Go on – we dare you. Leave your snide remarks and your cynicism and your best spew-stained work blouse by the door and enjoy. Just remember: it’s not a documentary, it’s fantasy!