To think supernanny doesn’t need a come back

AFAIK it isn’t a speech impediment it is her continued mispronunciation and a very common one at that. She was corrected and was able to change her pronunciation.

I used her techniques when mine were young. The naughty step was helpful and worked. So I was thankful and think she has great ideas and methods in setting boundaries. Mine turned out fine and remember the naughty step to this day 😂

they tried the rebranding but it’s still was faked a lot of the time too again for views.

The filming kids was obviously wrong but as pp said - we didn’t know instagram and TikTok was coming where the clips would be there for ever.
I don’t see what is wrong with her advice tbh. Firm boundaries, clear explanations, consequences, rewards.
The fact that she doesn’t have kids is irrelevant. A parent has the experience of dealing with a tiny number of kids compared to a professional nanny. Mother doesn’t always know best. In the old days extended family would play a much bigger role in raising kids so multiple perspectives were around. Now we live much more isolated and parents are often on their own. They miss out on the wisdom of others.

It was exploitative TV. Part of that genre of presenting it as educational and advice-giving when it was really pointing at people and saying 'look at these awful people and their terrible kids'.

Same goes for all the fat shows that were on around that time. Secret eaters, Gilliam Mckieth and the like. Pretending to be doing public health promotion when it was really just 'urgh, look at that fattie and all the disgusting things they eat'.

It was out of date even at the time.

I agree that these kind of programmes are exploitative.

I don’t think not having kids is an issue however if you’ve had a lot of experience in childcare. Having children doesn’t automatically make you an expert in parenting either to state the obvious

This

I think back when it was first shown in 2004, showing the kids' faces and behaviour on TV would have felt less of an issue. There was no social media, no YouTube, no iPlayer. So no one would have expected these programmes to be still available in 20 years' time except in a few dusty VHS copies. And ideas of data protection and consent were very different too.

I never watched it but I used to love house of tiny tearaways.
I always remember one of the very restricted eaters on it and the doctor was trying to get the dad to set a good example for the child by eating a vegetable or something like that and the dad didn't even try to hide his disgust for it in front of the child.

I think it's a shit show. Whoever thought of it, fair play you get viewers, but I don't know how people could listen to her twattishnes or take her advice. I didn't know she wasn't a mother herself until this thread. It makes sense to a large degree. Wtf does she know about actual mother or parenthood?
I prefer Dogs Behaving Badly. It's very cute 😊

I found season 8 to be a lot more relevant. It was shown on Channel 4 I think. Definitely found it more in tune, though very interesting the change in approach and styling. No more corporate look, more relaxed. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxrFh3Xw3wAMskx0KEgJtKWUp5H77b_R_

Such an exploitative programme.

I think she's needed more than ever. The parenting these days is generally lazy and awful. Then there are the parents who like to claim their kid has ADHD to excuse their failed parenting.

I hated her then and now.

it was faked for views and Jo was a touch handsy in some episodes.

do you mean attachment theory or attachment parenting?
Attachment parenting is just a style of parenting. It is not the only way.

I think her techniques were fine. She was always so warm and came over as genuinely caring with both the children and tbeir parents. Her calm and consistent aporoach was spot on. The kuds basically sat a few minutes nearby on a designated spot near their oarents, apologised, hugged and moved on. That really is not 'harsh'. 😂

This for sure!

I think many families who are struggling could do with Super Nanny’s help. I’d love to see her work her magic again.

We did time outs it really worked and no long term damaged cause. Its much better then parents now who do the do nothing approach as they don't want to hurt their children's feelings.

She seems to have changed her tune and perspective to be more child focused, however has not to my knowledge owned the past mistakes, yet sadly her parenting 'advice' influenced a whole generation (and more, as some still use it today) of parents to adopt a very disciplinarian stance with isolation techniques like the naughty step etc, which have been proven to be emotionally damaging, which is pretty unforgivable IMO.

I managed to raise two emotional healthy and successful sons by taking advice.
The naughty step, or in our case, the stair in the hall, was used to make them calm down and reflect for a few moments and then we would talk about why things had gone wrong. We would always finish with a hug and I'll tell them we've moved on.

I dont believe there is much wrong with having time out to think about why people are upset by your behaviour. It needs to be used sparingly and for a short time though and the rest of the house needs to be calm so tbe child isnt feeling left out of fun things their siblings maybe doing.

I'd rather have a child with consistent boundaries in place than have some of the children who run wild who I have to see when i do home visits.
I have been called a cunt by children under 5 years old more times than anyone should because they dont want me to have their mums attention. I know it is learned behaviour but it goes unchecked. In a couple of years it will be normal to abuse teachers and anyone who challenges them to do somethjng they dont like.
Thanks to a bit of common sense and watching Jo Frost to guide through challenging situations ny two sons have ended up decent blokes and havent suffered emotional damage from their deserved time outs!

Would you like them played by actors?

But clearly there are a significant amount of adults who have no common sense as we have a generation of brats and clueless parents

Whether she births a child or not is irrelevant she was a nanny for years so most likely spent more time with the children she cared for then their actual parents. I have a cousin who hardly ever sees her kids they are with one set of grandparents all week why she works and they stay at other grandparents at the weekend as she needs a break from being a single mum and this is the sort of shit she comes out with.

Jo Frost has zero qualifications and will say anything controversial to stay relevant. Her methods are shit and tbh most of the advice she gave out about routines on SN were generic and common sense.
Shes also really fucking annoying

I think you should listen to her podcast episode with Paul C Brunson on his series called 'we need to talk'. Very enlightening. One of her quotes is 'do I need to have children to be able to help parents and children, much like does an oncologist need to have had cancer to be able to help a patient with cancer.' And I agree.

Mine wasn’t distressed. He would laugh in my face and continue doing whatever I was telling him not to do, sometimes even more enthusiastically- sometimes what he was doing would have endangered himself. Time outs worked to correct that in the end.

I tried positive parenting techniques at the time, but he didn’t have the concentration to be able to listen to a word and he would continuously run away (which added to whatever mania he was in). So many of the examples just didn’t work with him before the age of 5. The time out taught him to stay on the spot, and once he calmed down we would talk about whatever the situation was and then have some cuddles after and forget about it. It took a lot of effort to get to the point where he learnt that he would be placed back on the spot until we had a discussion about his behaviour.

I only used time-out between the ages of 3-5 (he didn’t need it after, I was able to use natural consequences instead as he could listen and comprehend it). Something had to be done to address his behaviour. He was the type of preschooler who was on top of the tables in restaurants throwing things at other people’s tables, it was pure hell. I expect if I had just rumbled on then he would have been completely out of control by the age he is now (7 years old). I saw a marked difference after implementing time-outs.