One day they're angelic little bundles of joy; the next, they're answering back, staying out late and treating the family home like a hotel. Such is the common experience of parents with teenage children, and this six-part series aims to show what it's like "living with the enemy" from both sides of the battlefield.
Mixing video diaries which show the ferocious arguments (and fierce language) between teenagers and parents, fly-on-the-wall filming, studio discussions and counselling sessions, the series takes ordinary families through the traumas of sex, money, crime, divorce, housework and many other problems attendant on adolescence.
In this first programme 'I Can't Cope', mother and daughter Gill and Corrie [text removed] attempt to settle their differences after a blazing row, while 16-year-old Amber [text removed] has to decide which parent she wants to live with.
A Goldhawk production for BBCtv
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