This 'Cutting Edge' documentary is of an expository format, and it focuses on children who are being suffocated by their protective parents. The documentary exposes the lives of a few children in particular, who's parents stop them getting vital life experience and enjoying their childhood due to their obsessive nature regarding safety. This behaviour does not regress as their children get older, if anything it gets progressively worse.
These parents buy their children expensive gaming software, mobile phones and computing equipment such as new laptops, gaming chairs, iPhones and various other new items to retain control and encourage their children to want to stay at home rather than play with their friends from school. These children aren't even allowed to play outside the front of the house, as these parents are terrified that they might be stabbed, kidnapped or worse.
The documentary focuses on three parents in particular; Adel, Toni and Jenny. The expository nature of this documentary reveals the way in which technology now allows parents to be protective over their children, by microchipping and GPS tracking, for example, which is the means of protection that Toni was particularly interested in. 'Cotton Wool Kids' gives us insight into the way that some families live, which allows the audience to analyse their own and compare, therefore making this particular style of documentary interesting.
Link to the documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebGOl_G3jes&list=SL
