not sure how relevant to special needs this is (so pasting it on other places too! )- but as i'm often told that 'everyone has difficulties' even with NT kiddies- thought this is worth a watch!!
The following is what i pasted from the BBC3 website:
Happy Families is a parenting season that looks at the issues that face young parents today as well as considering their relationship with their parents.
"Little Angels
Mon 9 Feb at 20:30 on BBC Three
Tue 10 Feb at 00:30 on BBC Three
Tue 10 Feb at 20:30 on BBC Three
This new series offers help and advice to four families experiencing difficulties with their children. Clinical psychologist, Dr Tanya Byron, shows the mums and dads how they can improve their parenting techniques. She reveals how their own behaviour impacts on that of their children and sets behavioural programmes for the whole family to follow.
Dr Tanya Byron is a Consultant Clinical psychologist who has been working in the NHS for 14 years.
Having worked in the fields of health psychology (in areas including AIDS/HIV, drug misuse and sexual health) and women's mental health, Tanya specialised in child and adolescent mental health where she treats young children with behavioural issues, such as problems with aggression, sleeping or eating.
More recently Tanya has worked with adolescents with a variety of emotional and behavioural difficulties including depression, self harm, eating disorders, psychiatric problems and suicidal behaviour. She has also worked with children who have been sexually, physically and emotionally abused; and for six years was the consultant clinical psychologist at an in-patient unit for 12 to 16-year-olds.
Tanya teaches a variety of psychological subjects to all health staff and, in particular, runs a Department of Health ‘beacon’ awarded training course in the management and de-escalation of violence and aggression. She also writes for consumer and professional magazines and is currently filming the second series of Little Angels for BBC Three. Tanya is married with two young children and lives in London.
Using a hands-on technique - talking to them via a radio receiver as they interact with their children - Tanya tells them how to change the pattern of their behaviour as and when situations arise. Remarkable transformations are expected…
Episode One: The Bartons
30-year-old Jo Barton and her 32-year-old husband Jason live in Banbury, Oxfordshire and are the parents of three lively and angelic looking blond boys: 5-year-old Luke, 3-year-old Elliott and toddler Harrison, two.
Jo’s an office manager and Jason is a car inspector. They are typical busy working parents who don’t get as much time with their boys as they’d like, and are keen to enjoy family time when they’re together. Yet family time is rarely fun with the boys fighting and yelling, and a tired Jo constantly telling them off. Then their evenings are frequently dominated by the boys’ refusal go to bed, leaving them scant time for each other. Jo and Jason are certain there must be another way of getting the boys to do what they want…
Episode Two: The Christies
Sarah and Brian Christie are at their wits’ end with their 5-year-old son Matthew. He’s out of control: he won’t come when he’s called or do as he’s told, and taking him out anywhere is a nightmare. Even worse, he’s becoming aggressive and is being sent home from school on a regular basis. Matthew’s parents are about to move from Leeds to Rugby, and they’re desperate to sort out his problems and give him a fresh start before he starts his new school.
Matthew is their eldest child and only boy. He has two younger sisters, baby Emily and Sophie, two, and his parents have no problems with the little girls.
Episode Three: The Norrises
26-year-old full-time mum Sam Norris and husband Tim from Dorchester are desperate for help. They can’t manage their 3-year-old eldest daughter Katie’s temper tantrums and her constant rivalry with her younger sister Amy (two) over everything, from mum or dad’s attention through to hairclips, toys, sweets and even what they wear.
Sam and Tim are slaves to their daughters’ whims and whines, even resorting to dressing the girls identically on a daily basis and buying them identical toys and cups because they can’t handle the tantrums that will surely follow. And at night there's no peace either, with Tim in and out of the girls’ room up to six times per night and the couple uanble to remember having an unbroken night’s sleep in over two years.
Episode Four: The Soilleux
When childminder Jane Soilleux from Carshalton in Surrey got in touch with Little Angels about her 2½ year old daughter Emily, she was reaching the end of her tether. Emily’s constant whingeing, whining and tantrums were driving her and her welder husband mad.
Emily shares a bedroom with her older brother and sister, 5-year-old Harry and 6-year-old Hannah. Convinced that Emily is disturbing the elder two, Jane and Barry are allowing her to fall asleep on the sofa every night with her dad and a bottle of milk, until the older two are asleep.
and just in case you need reminding 'just how hard being a parent can be...! there's this programme too!
"Who Rules The Roost?
Many working mums and dads love their jobs but miss their kids. They feel guilty that they don't spend more time with their children but worry about giving up the income and personal satisfaction that work brings them.
As part of the BBC Three Happy Families parenting season, Who Rules the Roost gives three families the chance to make a radical change to their lives while revealing the reality of modern parenting.
Over five weeks, both Mum and Dad take it in turns to give up work and become their childrens' full-time carers. And that means coping 24 hours a day, seven days a week with endless piles of laundry, demands for food and keeping their tiny offspring entertained.
At the end of the experiment, the parents have to make a decision about whether either of them will hand in their notice permanently "