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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 12:28 pm
Anybody else catch any of this show? Its enough to make you not have children!
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 4:44 am
This show makes me really appreciate my cats. Those parents must be picked for cluelessness. I couldn't believe the mother who was trying to control every bite those kids ate - you don't have to be a psychic to see eating disorders in their futures!!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 6:46 am
Since I work in a preschool, I really have no desire to watch a show about children who are out of control! Who thinks of these concepts?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 7:34 am
How different is it from Nanny 911 or Super Nanny?
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 8:24 am
I recorded this and have not watched either episode yet. However..........their children's behavior is their fault. I could not imagine allowing a child act this way. this from a person who raised by parents who were good to their children, but took no crap.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 12:23 pm
I watched one episode, and couldn't believe that the psychologist isn't stopping the one mother from calling her son a "bad boy" all the time. The child is going to grow up with a complex. The mother should be encouraged to tell her son that his behaviour is bad, not him personally!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 10:37 pm
So, I only got to watch the last two shows (not counting the "reunion" still to come). So ummmm.....that was what was considered the "new and improved" kids? So, they must have been truly terrible to start with!! Why is it all the "experts" on these Nanny shows are Brits? Are we implying that only the British know how to properly raise children?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, December 15, 2006 - 7:08 am
So is it just like Nanny 911 & Super Nanny? Or is it different?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, December 15, 2006 - 9:44 am
Julie, since I only watched the last two episodes, I may not have it totally right. But its pretty similar to the other Nanny shows, but there were I think 3 families who all moved into a home (for I think a week), and there was an expert there to coach them all through how to handle the tiny terrors. Looks like it could be explained as a cross between Nanny 911 and Starting Over.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, December 15, 2006 - 9:51 am
Thanks Who!!!
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 7:29 pm
My kids (ages 8 and 10) and I enjoyed this short series very much. Whoami, I agree with your assessment of the show as a cross between Nanny 9-1-1 and Starting Over in that therapist Tanya worked on the parents' relationships with each other and showed them how their unresolved issues with each other affected their parenting styles and decisions. The therapist was a lot like a life coach in that respect. The first episode had an interesting segment that I'd like to have seen more coverage of: there was a large candy-dispensing machine in the house when the families moved in, tagged with directions saying that each child could have one turn (of the handle) per day. The idea of having the jelly bean dispenser was so the therapist could get an honest look at how the parents discipline their kids, and the conflicts over the giant gumball-machine-like monstrosity arose immediately upon the families' arrival in the house. I have two points that I would love to hear your feedback on regarding the candy machine. First, I am floored that the parents didn't use creative thinking in order to try and make the candy a non-issue for their children since they obviously had no control over what the kids did with the machine!!! The dispenser was bolted to the floor and couldn't be dragged into another room, but someone could have thrown a bedsheet over it (out of sight, out of mind!) to maybe decrease the kids' begging for the candy. If I'd lived in the house I'd have dispensed all the candy into a bowl while the children were sleeping and hidden the bowl in a cupboard! Second, I think having candy on constant display makes kids want it and eat it more often just because it IS on display. Case in point: we HAVE candy in my house and my kids know where to find it, but they don't constantly pick at a bowl of candy unless it's sitting out on the table or the kitchen counter, like during the holidays. My kids are skinny. (I'm grossly overweight and my eating habits have nothing to do with the point I'm trying, badly, to make.) By contrast, my younger sister has TONS of candy all around her house in bowls and containers, stacked in the kitchen, displayed artfully on the dining room and kitchen tables and on her living room coffee and end tables. Her youngest son is rather overweight and spends ALL his time snacking on candy. I think he eats more candy just because it's always in his face. His dad is not really overweight, and he's actually pretty physically fit. My kids' dad is genetically disposed to thinness, and my kids have inherited that from him, but they would be heavier if they ate as much candy as my nephew does! Any opinions on this?
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