ARE PARENTS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THEIR KIDS?

Yes

WHEN you get to my age, embarrassing your teenage children is one of life’s few remaining pleasures (“Kids are driven crazy by dads singing in car”, November 13).

My current favourite is to crowbar Stormzy lyrics into everyday conversation with my kids, which sends them nuts.

Last week we went shopping and my daughter had emptied the racks of several boutiques and wondered if it would all fit on the back seat of the car. I told her: “It’s never too big for the boot.” She looked at me like something she’d scraped off her shoe. 1-0 to dad. Brian Fisher, Lancaster

No

DOING the school run is the only time of the day I get to spend with my children. The rest of the time they’re at school, I’m at work or they’re out with their friends.

The journey takes about 15 minutes and during that time I find out more about what’s going on in their lives than on a two-week family holiday, mainly because they’re forced to sit in an enclosed space with me.

Kids don’t realise that before we had them we had some semblance of “cool”, before a swirling vortex of nappies, teething and nights of broken sleep ground us down. Eddie Briggs, Bristol