House of Tiny Tearaways BBC3 tonight - did anyone watch it?

[emkana]

I didn't like it how Dr. Tanya Byron ( who I think is great really) went into full-on "He's going to sleep in his own bed tonight" mode with the little toddler who sleeps badly. I mean this was a strange environment for the poor little baby!
Couldn't believe the couple with the two-and-a-half year old "Do you want your tea? No? Do you want a brown yog-yog instead?" Please...
Will be interested to see this, even though I think it's a bit much that it will be on every night this month.

[milward]

I always wonder if it's a good idea to have the other parents looking after other peoples kids when the parents meet with Dr B. When the little boy had to go for time out his mother left the little girl just sitting alone on the settee.

[aproblem]

the children look exhausted, I couldnt cope with the screaming!

[milward]

Watched the first week & am watching this week. Interesting prog. Wonder how the little boy got his behaviour of swearing - seems more than just picking up the few"bad" words that all kids do. Think that all the parents are really brave. Understand why the mum with twins doesn't want them to have a nap - but it could help get them sorted out and by then they would be bigger & definately not need one.

[natmumJJ]

Hi there all. New 2 this so excuss any mistakes! I have personally been addicted to HOTT. think Dr Tanya is amazing and she does care.

I am also sick of the re-caps but i do record it most nights so can fast forward crap bits in morning

My thoughts on some of the other comments ive read, it is a different environment to there home lives but if the behaviour still happens there then they can be fixed there, example family sent home!

Also what i have realised is we teach are children to behave like this, 90% of these childs problems stem from there parents problems! I know we dont realise were doing it but i would hope a lot more parents will grow up and take there arguments else where or load someone else with there problems!

last thing is i have learnt so many valuable lessons and techniques, ie. how to execut a time out in public! and possitive praise, which i now practice with my 8m ds.

[FIMAC1]

Wasn't Harrison a totally georgeous, beautiful little boy? Tanya seemed to think so too from her comments! I am addicted to this series, the change in the parenting styles by the end of the 6 days is relly something

[beansprout]

She really doesn't want to stop b/f, it is as simple as that. Totally agree that disturbing her son and then feeding him is just giving him mixed messages. Poor thing. She is clearly hiding behind her son as she doesn't feel good in her relationship. Once her son is in another bedroom that leaves the way open for sex and that is clearly too scary for her. I think they should have spent more time thinking about what she really wanted to do.

[DissLocated]

Sorry I missed it!

[tarantula]

Ah right thought I was dreaming or something cos I wasnt really watching it properly on Sunday or I had a brain seizure or maybe lost a complete week into the ether (easily done in this house) .

[foxinsocks]

they also showed Harrison's parents getting closer and Kelsey's mum admitting that she treated Kelsey more like a mate than a child.

[foxinsocks]

disslocated - you got there quicker!

The husband (can't remember his name) was supposed to be doing the night shift and had managed to get the little one off to sleep. We then panned to the mother recording some poem basically about how she doesn't want to let go of her baby. Then you see her going in to the room to check the baby and disturbing him - he then wakes up, she feeds him and then cuddles him muttering something like you need my cuddles and then mummy needs to cuddle you. SHe then stormed through to the lounge and crapped all over her husband for not supporting her enough - he was furious with her for breast feeding when he thought they had made a decision to stop it.

[foxinsocks]

the family with 2 boys (youngest had tantrums) left because the youngest one was so well behaved! Apparently, Tanya said his tantrums were specific to his home environment so she would help them once they were at home.

This left a space for the new family.

I was absolutely gob smacked when she went into the baby's room and woke him up to breastfeed. I know it is hard when you stop feeding but she has actually admitted that she is feeding him for her benefit not his (because she doesn't want to let go). I imagine Tanya will have harsh words with them today because if she really won't give it up then their problems will continue. Quite sad though.

[DissLocated]

I love this programme too (tad ashamed to admit it though) I now allow dd to make more mess when she's eating so she doesn't get a food phobia.

T - one family got chucked out because their son suddenly became really well behaved in the house. Dr Tania said it must be the home environment that triggered his bad behaviour so she's working with them from home, off camera. The bf family were brought in to replace them.

Did I miss anything interesting last night?

[tarantula]

Where did the family with the breast feeding problems come from. Sue they werent there on Sunday when I last watched it. what happened there then?

[MamanFlo]

I love that prog...but that makes DH very worried about our 3 weeks old daughter...she has difficulties to get to sleep on her own (as you can imagine at this age!) and he thinks we might be giving her bad habits in cuddling her too much before going to bed...I told him to relax !

However I was quite sad at seeing Alex not able to give up breastfeeding...it made me cry...I just started three weeks ago and I know it will be hard to let go...

Can't bear the constant recaps (probably to enable reruns on channels with tv ads ) but it is useful when I miss a show.

[DaddyCool]

just picked up on this thread. that poor harrison simply needs more love. dw and i sat gobsmacked as she said she sometimes wishes she never had him etc... right in front of the poor kid... and how bloody cold was his dad when he went in to see to him in the bedroom! what's the matter with a few soft, reassuring words and a hug instead of 'you're making me angry'.

[beansprout]

H is in a nappy?! He is SO anxious!

[unicorn]

and didn't she say he is in a nappy at night... or am I getting confused???

[Wallace]

did anyone find it quite strange the way they were trying to get him to eat? He is 5, not 1...

[Wallace]

and calls him a brat

[beansprout]

Totally agree about Eggert and the garlic bread!!! Enough already!!!

Am going to find Harrison quite difficult to watch. He really is sad. I got quite attached to Lewis in the first week and I think the same thing might happen again. Poor thing - he is crying so his mum turns the monitor down (and that is with people she just met and on TV - just what on earth happens at home?)

[unicorn]

emmieswill blimey!

kids today are being brought up on this.. so I expect their children will have no problems at all!!!!!!

[emsiewill]

Oh yes, and agree about the fan. And the mother was standing there going "lets sit down and listen to my brat".

I think dd1 (8) is going to be a Dr Tanya when she grows up. She had a plan for Harrison - get the eating sorted, and he'll probably sleep better, as he won't be waking up hungry. Once the sleep is sorted, he won't be so narky, and the behaviour will be better. Easy!

[emsiewill]

I was watching this with my dds (they love the 'naughty children programmes' lol), and dd2 (5.11) said that Harrison should be allowed to be sad on the first night cos when it's your first night somewhere, you feel a bit strange.

I know they've not got long, but that's because of the restraints of the TV programme, and these are real people with real problems, no matter whether they've agreed to appear on TV, the problems should be dealt with realistically.

Agree with unicorn about Tanya letting the mother talk about her son so harshly in front of him (although maybe she needed to see how far the mother would go). Also agree about the leading questions.

Love watching this programme, though. Can't believe I'm going to miss the last week next week as I'm on holiday.

Also can't bear the constant recaps (as has already been discussed) - I wish the programme was 15 mins shorter without all the recaps. If I saw Isaac / Eggert eating garlic bread one more time by the end of last week, I would have gone crazy .

[Wallace]

It will be very interesting to see what happens as the week goes on.

I do find the programme fascinating, but not very ethical. She should have more background on the families. Or maybe she does, but that is not something the viewer is told.

I thought the exact same thing about the bed beansrout

[unicorn]

exactly bsprout... he was scared re the fan...and no doubt the artificail environment
... now surely that is not right...

Couldn't Dr T Tell the parents that it was ok to turn it off etc...and comfort him?

(ahh- not such good tv??)