AMELIA IS A DEVIL CHILD

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A ND I WOUDL SMAKE HER ANNOYIGN LITTEL FACE

i thnka you

yup, let's watch these parents make a complete balls up of it whilst we pat ourselves on the back that we didn't turn out like them. Meanwhile the pro's go in for the final humiliation, telling the hapless parents what every other smug parent is already shouting at the tv, because the problem is so obvious innit? Gosh aren't we all so clever?

oh so right
i m prefect comapred to them

any more amelia detesters

poor Amelia

think they do get support after the programme

i think the mum is the problem to be honest.... she was doing ok while the 2 parents were there, but daddy goes to work for a day and it all falls apart.

She is a little shit, hate to say it, but she really is a nasty piece of work.

I don't know how those parents stay so calm.I find bellowing works a treat!

rofl cod

I am trying desperately to think of any redeeming features in Amelia

let me get back to you

I reckon the next wave of reality programmes will feature an interactive button which will effectively 'exterminate' those people/children that the 'masses' don't like.

(Was it Logan's run that predicted this?)

I know her eating problem is serious but I would be itching to just present her with meals and telling her to get on with it,no snacks between meals allowed.Surely at 4 she won't starve herself to death.
All this coaxing and sitting for hours at the table is crap imo.

I think Logan's run (was recently on TV again!) was where you were exterminated when you got to 30!

thought you must know my dd when saw the thread title!!!

must be the name!mines a drama queen,and has proper diva tantrums!!(shes 10)

its such a shame to be referring to a 4yr old in this way, but she would try the patience of a saint.

what do you think it is with her, nature or nurture?

I think if I lived with her parents I would do my nut aswell

she's only 4 poor little thing - I'm sure once she starts school she'll probably calm down a bit

I wonder whether there is something very wrong with her tbh. She is certainly very odd and I would be worried if she was mine, but her mum is also very odd and very negative towards her - wonder what came first, the bad behaviour or the negativity.

I agree about the food ggirl. Put it on the table, ignore her and take it away if she doesn't eat it, she'll soon be starving and cave in. She's getting so much attention for being a little mare.

yes, I think she gets vast amounts of attention when she behaves badly

the whole family seem to be operating all day every day at an anxiety level several degrees above normal - they are the sort of people who you feel could do with a few days on valium just to make them chill a bit

I think she is very bright and manipulative - look at her hamming it up to herself in the mirror and, I think, to the cameras. Mother looks anxious all the time. Dad was unnecessarily overbearing about the story time the other night - should have just relaxed, let her have one story and then taken her to bed.

has Tanya not got the 'story' out of them yet (as there is usually always some background isn't there?)
maybe that'll be tonight?

I agree about completely ignoring the difficult behaviour - the flames are being fanned by all the negotiation that goes on.

haven't watched it all but the mother did say that she was desperate for her to sleep through very quickly so had Amelia in a routine v early on so she slept through at 7 weeks (think that's right). Also, she admitted (the mum) she is a complete perfectionist as Amelia had been the perfect baby right up to weaning when she suddenly wouldn't do textures and it completely floored her because suddenly her perfect baby was not perfect anymore.

They really need to chill.

It must be very very hard to live with a child like that. One of my DDs is slightly like it so have some sympathy, but she is not on the same scale as Amelia thank God! I have gradually learnt that all this talking and negotiating is the wrong way to handle it - she ended up getting tons of attention (albeit negative) whilst her well-behaved sister got very little. I tore up a party invitation in front of her last week and I'm sticking to my guns about not letting her go. She was very shocked and has been fairly well behaved since.

you deserve a medal for managing with twins anyway sandyballs! (hope the quieter one is happier at school now). Did you watch the HoTT where they had the screaming twins? It was the first one where I had to actually turn it off - I couldn't even watch their tantrums they were so bad!

Was that the one with the old father? They were a handful. It's the quieter twin at school that is the nightmare at home . She seems to have settled there now though, thankfully.

OOOH, will have to watch this tonight. Dh is out so I can watch it without any griping going on!

Agree totally with ggirl about the eating issues - they always focus far too much on it imo - why don't they present the meal and the child eats it or doesn't, no coaxing. If they don't eat there is nothing. Much less stressful and child gets no attention.

Saw one last week where they were doing bloody cartwheels because the child put a speck of cucumber on her tongue!

Mine ate cucumber for the first time last week too - no song and dance, just presented it with a meal over and over again and in the end they must have thought 'oh go on, I'll give it a whirl' and what do you know, they liked it! NO effort on my part either

I'd stick her in boarding school