What embarrassing things do your parents do?

Adam and the dancing dads

Dads are being invited to strut their stuff in a competition in Manchester to find the most entertaining dancing dad.

Watching your parents dance is something loads of you find embarrassing, but are you one of them?

What else do they do to make you cringe?

Are they rubbish at telling jokes? Or always telling your mates embarrassing stories about when you were younger?

Maybe they love singing but don't realise they're totally out of tune. Or do they dress up in really silly costumes?

Are you lucky enough never to have been embarrassed by your mum and dad? Let us know...

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Your comments

"My dad and mum started showing my friends my baby photos at my sleepover party, I was so annoyed at them!"

Norman, 9, Buckinghamshire, England

"My dad does the most embarrassing thing ever, he dances round the house to Rockstar by Nickleback, sometimes even with a mop or a hair brush or, well, anything in his hand!"

Courtney, 10, Wales

"Well, my mum isn't really embarrassing but my dad talks about weird things or goes over the top!!"

Faeqa, 11, London, England

"My mum always holds my hand in public! Aaaaah!"

Ruby, 12, London, England

"I find it embarrassing when my parents talk to my friends."

Merryn, 12, Birmingham, England

"When my mum laughs it is really loud and everybody looks around and I am really embarrassed."

James, 11, Balloch, Scotland

"My dad is the most embarrassing dad than ever. He took my pink umbrella to work, has walked IN PUBLIC with my mum's handbag and he sings weirdly!!!!!!!"

Sindurii, 11, Oxfordshire, UK

"My mum always holds my hand in public! Aaaaah!"

Ruby, 12, London, England

"When me and my family go out to the shops and someone says something about America, my dad will put on a really cheesy American accent and talk about 'sneakers' and 'soda' really loudly in front of everyone!"

Chloe, 12, Stockport England

"My dad dances and sings all the time and everywhere he goes!"

Rory, 11, Worthing, England

"My mum told the boy I fancied that I liked him, and my mum's boyfriend sings in front of my friends."

Yumi, 12, London, England

"My parents aren't embarrassing!"

Ella, 12, Manchester, England

"My mum, whenever you say a word, will start singing a random song with that word in it!! She always does it in front of my best mate but that's not that embarrassing because my best mate's mum does it too!!!!"

Aisling, 12, Ireland

"My dad dances in front of my friends all the time!"

Izzy, 10, Berkshire, England

"When my dad is at parties he tries to come and dance in the middle of the dance floor!"

Megan, 11, London, England

"My dad always dances in front of my friends and sings awfully and he always sings songs he made up about me!"

Charlotte, 12, Peterborough, England

"My dad made up a secret handshake with my best friend and does it whenever he sees her!"

Imogen, 10, Wales

"My dad doesn't do anything embarrassing. I feel quite lucky!"

Zoe, 12, Manchester, England

"My Dad is the only person who you want to leave behind at a party! I am just about to leave and what happens, he starts to dance and I am trying to impress my friends and he starts doing the cha cha slide and he falls over and splits his pants!!!!! So embarrassing!"

Meylissa, 11, Wiltshire, England

"My mum dances like a chicken whenever I have a public assembly at school!"

Lucie, 11, Norfolk, England

"My dad turns his iPod on and dances around the room when I have got my mates round."

Emily, 11, England

"My dad dances in front of my friends!"

Aleena, 9, Somerset, England

"My mum says really embarrassing things and acts really over protective! It is so cringey!"

Jasmine, 13, UK

"Me and my family have a quiz night team name. It's Dads Can't Dance. I can't believe there is a dad dancing competition."

Emma, 12, Leeds, England

"Don't get me started! My mum is good, but my dad, well, he started dancing in front of all my mates and said on my 18th he's going to break dance. Uh-Oh!"

Mollie, 11, Liverpool, England

"My mam kisses me at school right next to my mates! Eek."

Anya, 8, Durham, England

"My parents aren't that embarrassing. Sometimes my dad has a conversation with me in a shop but does it really loudly so the shop assistance can hear also. My mum forgets things quite a lot which is embarrassing (she once left her purse in a shop, but I remembered it.)"

Ellie, 12, Essex, England

"My mum is really embarrassing because she laughs really loudly in public and I go bright red."

Jenny, 9, Cornwall, England

"Sometimes when my mum rings my dad on his mobile, he answers 'hello bird'. Or if they write a greetings card to one another, they always say 'love, Fred!'"

Joe, 10, UK

"When my dad sees my friend in a shop or supermarket he always asks them if I am naughty at school."

Ashleah, 10, Birmingham, England

"My dad embarrasses me by singing and dancing REALLY badly. He even once did in front of my best mate!"

Olivia, 12, England

"My mum calls me stupid nicknames out in public and I feel really embarrassed."

Dan, 12, England

"If I ask my mum something she sings it. She sings everything, it's so embarrassing but her and my dad always say weird thing like 'pigs in space'. Apart from that they're the best mummy and daddy ever."

Amy, 9, Kent, England

"My dad is so embarrassing! Once when he drove me and my brother to school he put some old music from his childhood on and started singing and dancing!"

Rosie, 14, England

"My mum is always telling my mates all the people I fancy."

Charlotte, 14, Leicestershire, England

"My dad comes into school to pick me up and starts shouting my name out!!!"

Marylin, 12, Birmingham, England

"A few years ago, my friend came round to my house and we had some pizza for tea and when we had finished eating we had some pizza round our mouths. My mum got a napkin, spat on it and wiped the pizza off our mouths with her spit. It was SO embarrassing."

Louisa, 13, Staffordshire, England

"My mum sings and dances around the house."

Emily, 10, Worcestershire, England

"Whenever I go out, my dad always calls me really embarrassing nicknames in front of shopkeepers and other people. Once when we were on holiday, my mum heard some music and started to dance BADLY!!!"

Olivia, 9, West Sussex, England

"My dad does this thing where if he's excited or laughing he squeezes his hands together and makes a face. He just does it, it isn't on purpose, and worse, I've inherited it. Boo-hoo!"

Megan, 12, Bradford, England

"My dad is so embarrassing because he listens to rock music and dances along and he also sings really loud and bad in all the shops when my friends are there."

Beth, 12, Cornwall, England

"My dad is embarrassing. When he sings in public also I go all red."

Charlotte, 11, Herefordshire, England

"My uncle used to pretend he was Elvis."

Jack, 11, Bristol, England

"Always, when I have my friends in the car, my mum starts to sing a chart song on the radio, and I tell her she cant sing. She says to my friend: 'You like my singing don't you?' Its amazing! It's so embarrassing!"

Dakota, 10, Kent, England

"My dad is basically fine, he's a laugh really, but my mum is a different story! At parties she's always dancing and singing and it's so old time!! She basically always finds some way!"

TJ, 11, Berkshire, England

"My mum and dad say things that happened to me when I was little too. My mum also tries to open the car door with her mobile and switches the TV off with the phone and it is so embarrassing."

Alice, 12, Essex, England

"My dad acts like a pirate. My mum says 'He does this cos he's rebelling.'" She says he was in the Navy for 24 years and likes to do what he wants and not be told what to do. It's so embarrassing. When we have to go to school stuff he embarrasses us so much."

Skye, 14, Lancashire, England

"He sings and dances with me near him and picks me up and dances with me but overall he's the best Daddy ever."

Danielle, 12, Wiltshire, England

"When I'm with my friends my dad tells them I wet the bed! (Which I don't!) And once he put me in the car boot when I was with my friends! It was really embarrassing!"

Skye, 12, Glasgow, Scotland

"Sometimes in public my dad sings and whistles. It is so embarrassing - cringe. Also sometimes when I have a friend over my dad and sometimes my fum talks to them. I hate it when they do that cringe."

Katie, 13, Wales, UK

"My parents sing and dance around the house when we've got guests!!"

Alice, 13, Wiltshire, England

"The most embarrassing thing my Mum has ever done is like when my friends stay over she will sing around the house, it is so bad."

Brooke, 9, West Yorkshire, England

"They always embarrass me in front of my friends."

Sam, 11, Colchester, England

"My dad dances in public, cringe, cringe."

Alexandria, 10, Buckinghamshire, England

"The most embarrassing thing my parents do is tell people about things that happened to me or things I did when I was little, it is so embarrassing!"

Unknown, 14, Bournemouth, England

"My Mum always says embarrassing stuff to me in public."

Alex, 12, London, England

"My Dad sings on Singstar really badly and he always times it to when my friends and I are in my room which is right next to where the Playstation 2 is in my brother's room!"

Amy, 13, Kent, England