Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage of self-emoting adults with their own mummy and daddy issues, asking themself ‘am I really a bad parent’ while off-loading the expensive brats at childcare just to stick it to Leunig.  

This existential self-indulgence is out in force during the new Nine Network Allison Langdon vehicle, ‘Let’s experiment on the kids’ where a group of parents do cool things with their own children while being filmed with a hidden camera like seeing if they will walk off with a stranger when the stranger has a cute puppy, or...