Put your questions to Supernanny, Jo Frost, here

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Jo Frost has been being Supernanny in the US for the last five years but she's shortly due back on our screens with a new show on Channel 4 - the Jo Frost Roadshow - a six part series sees Jo talking to Britain?s parents to find out which issues are really worrying them and which conundrums are driving them mad.

Ahead of the new series the Radio Times thought they'd like to field some real-life parental dillemas to Jo, to make sure she hasn't lost her touch and who better to come up with them than Mumsnetters? So if you'd like her take on any aspect of child-rearing or to hear her suggestions for solving any difficulties you are having with your child's behaviour (and please be as specific as possible) then fire away. We can't promise every question will get answered but we'll try for as many as we can.

Thanks
MNHQ

strike even

ok ill thnk of some real ones other wise Justine will take me off the pay roll

1. was behaviour very diff in the usa

2.did you ever htink " oh fgs no wonder your kids a loon you are too"

1. do you see a link betwen food and behaviour
2. do you have kids

Eccentrica lol, ha ha x

we want the afghan man

Ok, I have a genuine question. Not specifically about a parenting problem I have, but a fair question all the same.

I'd like to know whether Jo Frost feels that the role of parenting 'experts' has changed since she started out? Whether mumsnet and the 'mumocracy' (read that phrase in the times once) has changed her approach to giving advice as most of us are a bit too long in the tooth to believe all the experts and their varying theories which usually contradict.

Actually the more i think about this, WHY are you asking us anything. Surely mumsnet is the antithesis of parenting experts?

My two year old is generally pretty well behaved around the house (though is quite hard work - v. energetic and into everything) and usually/eventually does what I ask. When we go out to the park (or wherever) however, she runs off like some kind of mad Irish setter dog and goes apparently completely deaf to my requests to return. I am fed up of pegging across the grass in an undignified manner. How do I get her to a) stay close and b) come back?

no seriously , i want to know where Jo gets her specx , (will come in handy for friday night roleplay fun with dh! )

LOL

why does eh wear maroon

i know who A.M is now.

Cash for questions SupernannyIsSoAsseptable? That sounds like a good way for Mn to get all the media copy it needs from us these days.

Jo, do you think that bribing children to do what you want by threatening them with isolation or rewarding them with treats will have a good long-term effect on their behaviour?

actually can i ask Jo if she can come round and babysit sort out my eight monsters darling children ?, saturday night would be ok
good childcare is hard to find when you have 8 .

A V V Fussy Eater

My little girl who is 4 and at school will not try anything new she just says yuk and wont even try a spoonful. I think it all relates back to when we were on holiday when she was nearly 2 and we all got really bad stomach bugs. All she will really eat is Fruit, pizza if cheese and tomatoe, spagetti with sauces with no lumps!!, sweet and sour noodles, toast and cereal (ps we are all vegetarian)

I have tried:
cooking with her she likes the cooking but won't eat the results!!

not feeding her if she refuses to eat something new - she just will not eat.

making faces etc with the food - just looks at it and doesnt eat it.

Eating with her.

Leaving her to eat on own.

Growing veggies with her, picking them and cooking them.

Any other ides please

8. wait for her to grow out of it

(Good to see you SnowWorm)

As its been going on for over 2 years and it is now teaching her younger brother bad habits I would prefer a quicker solution,

What is the best way to get / encourage my daughter to try new foods? She is 3years 9months old.

She has a limited diet and what I do at the moment is include some foods that she will eat in a meal, and then add a portion of a food that she doesn't eat, so for example I will offer her tomato soup (horror!) with brad and butter (which I know she will eat) and some cubes of cheese (which she might eat).
I tell her that she can have fruit / yoghurt / a muffin ater her meal if she tries a taste of the 'yucky' food. I don't punish her in anyway if she doesn't try it, just support and encourage. Lots of praise if she does try. I have been doing this for 4 days, only 1 try of 'new' food, and that was a tiny bite of cheese and tomato flatbread.

Where am I going wrong?!

My son is not cuddly at all,quite a detached child. How can I bring our relationship closer? Hes going through the terrible twos at the mo and sometimes I feel like we just survive and its not enjoyable.

My 3 year old has been toilet trained for around 6 months but every so often goes through a phase where she has loads of accidents. The current phase has lasted for 3 weeks. She barely does anything in her potty at the moment unless she has no clothes on her bottom half. I ask her repeatedly if she has to use the potty and she usually says no but quite often has an accident soon after. Sitting her on the potty every so often doesn't work. She's very stubborn!

put ehr on the loo and conentrate more
when tehy are distracted they forget

I wish I knew what the answers were though. I agree wholeheartedly that bribes and isolation don't work. But I increasingly think very little works with my kids. So all I am left with is that I must be a shit parent. HTT and UP really has VERY little impact upon 3 boys who bring school and nursery home with them ('no, you're stupid', 'no, YOU are'), who beat the crap out of each other left in a room alone for 10 seconds, and who have completely different interests and needs and demands, exacerbated by large age gaps between them.

I don't think Jo is at all bad for taking on such families. I'd love to see the HTT/UP gurus be brave enough to do a telly programme instead of rewriting history in their books about how great it all was. I paraphrase, but:

HTT - 'everyone found it worked, funnily enough, except the people who didn't, who are clearly fools'

UP - 'Oh, god no, I don't have any actual 'practical realworld' solutions; crikey, I'm just an academic with one very quiet and diligent daughter. Work it out for yourselves, pleb'

I love watching supernanny - in a Im not THAT bad as a parent! [smug]

Jo can you please please learn to say acceptable properly - ie dont say asseptable because it drives me nuts when you do!

Im not personally convinced by the naughty spot concept but I can see it can work - clearly better than what the parents featured were doing before

My question - which family have been your most memorable?
which did you find the most difficult?
which did you think - it doesnt matter what I do this isnt going to work

My memorable moment is a family with a basement playroom, an older girl and younger boys (twins?) At one point the girl told you how sad she felt, you cried with her - and so did I!

as I would love some advice, but will ask tomorrow when the madness stops

seriously guys, 30 mins on the norty step with yow, that is unasseptable beehayviour

crap... was trying so hard, I couldn't resist!

Why do so many of the SUPERNANNY families have a military or police or prison warder parent in them?

I may be wrong but it seems that more often than not they are the jobs of the Mum or Dad

ie have a very disaplined job but are hopeless at home