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Roxibalboa
Member
08-15-2004
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 8:20 am
I couldn't find a SUpernanny thread. I don't watch Supernanny but last night's previews got me to DVR the second episode. By the time I was done watching I was so upset for those poor teen girls. Those parents infuriated me and I just have this hunch that after they were comfortable the cameras would never be back, they went back to their old ways. IMO, those teens should have been taken away to greener pastures by children's services. Just ridiculous what those parents put those poor girls through. To pass out from exhaustion/stress/etc, omg, I'm still angry today.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 8:33 am
That was so sad! That poor girl looked awful. How sad to see such bags under the eyes of someone so young!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 8:38 am
I have never seen this show, but you have my curiosity going. I'm going to go watch that episode and I'll be back.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 9:50 am
Yes, that poor girl looked awful. How could you have a child looking so ill and not do anything about it? If she hadn't passed out when Nanny was there, they probably wouldn't have even called the doctor.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 10:58 am
They didn't say so, but I am guessing the teen girls are the mother's daughters from her first marriage, and the three boys are from the current marriage. The boys all had receding chins like the dad. The older girls did not. Talk about your Cinderella story without the happy ending.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 11:04 am
I watched, too, and think social workers should step in. They're using home schooling as a device to keep their daughters as slaves, IMO.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 11:14 am
I just watched..Oh those poor girls. Yes, it was like slavery. I admit I personally know nothing about home schooling, but what I have seen on tv, the parents were there doing the schooling. Not the children left home alone to school themselves. Is that normal for how it's done? And how could the parents not see the physical wear and tear on their daughter? Heck, at first glance of her I thought she was anemic. That poor thing. It was total exhaustion! If it goes back to how it was, someone should definitely call the police.
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Bidasea
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 11:26 am
The first episode was good also. I loved that "Nana Mimi". She was a gem. What a sweet family. I hope the changes they made stuck. I also thought the two older girls were from a first marriage. I'll bet neither one has children for a long time after marriage (if ever). They are acting like parents already with all the responsibilities that go along with it. That was very sad.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 1:06 pm
Bidasea, I was thinking that as well, that neither of the girls would ever have kids.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 1:11 pm
There are two ways to go if grew up with shitty circumstances. My younger brother and I are examples. I chose not to have children, and he chose to have children and spoil them beyond belief. (yeah, it annoys me he spoils them so much, but I have admit they are very well behaved and nice kids). eta: oops, I forgot there is a third way to take. That is the same way we grew up. Thank goodness neither one of us took that route.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 1:21 pm
Why do you have to sweep the floor multiple times in 1 day? That's ridiculous ! Yes, you do chores, but it is unreasonable to sweep the kitchen multiple times in one day. I think it's a control technique for the mom with her daughter. Funny thing is that I thought the mother-daughter relationship was worse off than the father-daugher. Although I don't think that either of them will win the parent of year contest. I would like to know what has happened since the nanny was there. I did like the 2 girls in their study room talking about what will happen when the cameras leave. They were saying exactly what I was thinking would happen.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 1:50 pm
You know what was missing in every member of the family--joie de vivre! Didn't the whole family seem depressed? The only one with any spunk at all seemed to be the oldest daughter. You know, they evidently were struggling financially. I mean nothing else explains the lifestyle. If there had been genuine caring shown, anything would have been livable. As it was, life in that family seemed like a prison sentence.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 9:06 pm
HP, you mean the younger daughter, the 14 year old, Moriah. She looked more mature than the older 17 year old. The older daughter is the one who fainted, the one who got the driving lessons.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Yes, Juju. You are right. Didn't realize (the entire show) that she was the YOUNGER daughter. Wow.
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 1:17 am
Hi, was Supernanny on last night? i don't understand why my PVR didn't record it.
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Dfng
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 5:06 am
Jodied75: Yes, Supernanny was on last night and it was a new episode.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 9:26 am
and ohmigoodness, wasn't the new house quite the piece of real estate?
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Bombaycat
Member
07-21-2007
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 3:41 pm
I almost fell off my sofa when I saw that house. Guess that explains why Dentist Dad works 6 day a week. Why would you build it and then not move in (because of the kids)? Guess it just shows you can have money (or at least the appearance) and still have problems raising your kids.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 8:17 pm
I don't get it. Most of my Chinese friends in my generation would not have so many kids so close in age. They will have help. Usually one of the grandmas whether you like it or not. Plus maids to help out with house work. My brother pays our young cousin to drive his only son(age 7) around for piano, art, karate, swimming and somthing else every day after school. (I gathered what they are from the sayings on their wall-hangings.)
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 8:18 pm
I missed the beginning though. Where is this family located? CA?
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 2:29 pm
I live where that episode took place (it was a neighboring town). Here's a link to the local paper's articles about the episode... Appleton Post Crescent
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Wrong episode, Kaili. This last family had small children, not teenagers.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 9:40 pm
Hahahaha, Kaili, you really had me going. The episode we are talking about is the Chinese-Americans, and I was pretty darn sure you live nowhere near where they do. Chy, I recognized many of the locations in the show. They obviously lived in Daly City, CA, one of those post-WWII developments built to house the returning soldiers. It is a suburb immediately to the south of San Francisco, on the Pacific coast. Houses there were probably somewhat affordable when they were first built but have since gone astronomical, just like everything else within a hundred miles or so of San Francisco. Those modest houses would now probably cost between $700,000 to a million. And believe me, they are still pretty darned modest. Do you know the song, "Little Boxes on the Hillside, Little Boxes Made of Ticky-tacky?" That song was written about Daly City, CA. Some of the scenes where the kids were taking classes were in Chinatown, which is close to downtown San Francisco. If the grandparents don't live with the children's parents, they probably live in Chinatown. I worked in San Francisco for five years. A guy I worked with, who was born in Chinatown, and lived in Daly City, explained to me that there are many, many people who live in Chinatown who have never been outside Chinatown. He was born to very old parents and has a Downs Syndrome younger sister because of the discrimination against the Chinese in the early part of the century. His father emigrated to San Francisco, but it was forbidden for his mother to join her husband, even though they were married. So they lived apart in different countries until the laws finally changed in the 1950's. It was fascinating stuff. But I digress. I could not figure out where the new house was, but that would have been about a seven million dollar house, maybe more. And it would not have been particularly close to San Francisco and Chinatown anymore. I am guessing if the grandparents did not live with the family before the move, they certainly did afterwards. And yes, according to the show, they did not move into the new house because they were afraid the children would tear it up, just like they did the old one. That much was stated on the show. I suspect there could also have been a bit of hassle about the grandparents, if they did indeed live in Chinatown. Wherever that house it, that family would no longer be able to easily visit Chinatown daily as it appeared they did before the move. In one of the final scenes of the show, there was a grandmother and possibly some other older relatives eating at the table with the family.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 4:42 pm
Yeah I know I'm a few weeks behind. Haha. I never even saw the episode that was here, but it was abig thing and I just saw the posts above about it. There was so much talk about having the kids taken from them after that episode and I remembered the article about the family getting death threats. Thought those who watch the show a lot might be interested. Carry on with your current episodes! 
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Webchiq
Member
07-11-2005
| Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:27 pm
I just want to say that you can grow up in shitty circumstances and there is a 4th avenue you can take, have beautiful children that you raise in a consistent, balanced, loving home and you don't have to spoil them or choose not to have them. I grew up like those teen girls, but worse, unless we just aren't seeing physical abuse or torture that is happening to them also. But, I don't think they are abused physically because the cameras would have been a sure way to make things worse. I called for help one time and learned very quickly how much worse that makes the abuse when the social workers leave without taking you with them. I have wonderful kids, a balanced home, unconditional love and no need for Supernanny, so you can do it, even if it was bad growing up.
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