Jo Frost should be compulsory watching.

[Poshbaggirl]

I love this woman. She is to parenting what Jamie is to school dinners. No, shes better than that! So straightforward, everyone should watch and learn.

[EllenJaneisnotmyname]

Hi pointydog, Tanya Byron used to do a parenting programme on BBC2 called 'Little Angels' which was really good. Her later, longer programme was 'House of Tiny Tearaways' which was on BBC3 so you probably missed it. It does get repeated on some of the the digital channels, but my DS's are getting older now, oldest 14, so I'm not so interested. The Little Angels series did a 'Teen Angels' series, too, but mine were littlies back then.

[pointydog]

Ah well. My parenting was always so damn good I didn't need to look out for Tanya

[AngelDelightIsFab]

Bows down to the goddess herself. Love her!

[spiderpig8]

I don't agree with children's bad behaviour being used for entertainment purposes though.
I felt so sorry for that poor little ginger tubby boy who was getting bullied at school! being on national television will give any would-be bullies so much amunition!

[redglow]

She might get the children to behave when she is there, but I bet its different when she goes home. I have been a nanny for over twenty years it is so easy to sit back and judge like I used to. The hardest children I looked after were my own all the commen sense went out the window.

This naughty step is no different from standing a child in the corner I thought we had moved on from them days.

I have looked after many children and they all respond to different things there is not one right answer when it comes to childcare.

[EllenJaneisnotmyname]

@ pointydog I wish my parenting was so successful!

[AliGrylls]

I love her. In fact my parenting style is a combination of Jo Frost and the dog whisperer (he says not to reward bad behaviour with attention and give them regular exercise).

[devientenigma]

I also agree with Ali and pointy my parenting skills are great too, however it's my youngest dc that seems to be the issue.

[acsec]

I can't stand her! She's awful and can't speak properly - she pronounces so many words incorrectly!

[diddl]

I agree with redglow-there is no "one size fits all".

I also loathe the naughty step & never used it.

If I had, I´m fairly certain that my son would have sat there as told, but with my daughter I would have spent all the time putting her back on.

I aso don´t really get "sit there & think about what you´ve done" for young children.

It was often nothing a run around the garden or nearby park wouldn´t sort out-or just a walk.

[merrymouse]

I think "sit there & think about what you´ve done" must be one of the most nonsensical things that anybody has ever suggested.

[julienoshoes]

I disagree. Each to their own, but she is not for me.

I find her type of parenting disrespectful to children and I think it is loathesome to use children as TV entertainment.

[sunshinenanny]

This thread could go on forever but it still wouldn't make JF the expert she thinks she is.and I sometimes find her methods abusive. I stand by the comments I made earlier and I am glad that there are other's on this thread who don't think shoving a child on a naughty step and keep taking them back every time they move, in one case up to an hour with an increasingly distressed toddler, in an exhausting battle of wills is the right way to teach a child how to behave. Yes children need clear boundaries they also generally want to please and they also learn by example.