>Is anyone watching this?
>
>I tivo'd last night's episode and
>saw a few minutes during
>lunch today. Two of
>the boys (ages 3 &
>6) left the house without
>telling their mom where they
>were going. Then no
>one could find the 3-year
>old. And apparently this
>is not a rare occurance.
>

I've been watching Supernanny since it started and it's hard to believe how clueless some parents are.

The episode you mentioned, that woman was totally clueless. She fit the dumb blonde stereotype almost perfectly. Her wardrobe didn't leave alot to the imagination. In fact, she leaned over once and we got a real view! Almost topless TV.

The last episode with the Wischmeyer family really hit home. There was a couple with a 9 year old boy and twin 4 year old girls. The best way to describe it was the girls got no discipline and the boy got disciplined whether he did something or not!

The girls would harass him and if he tried to say anything about it, he'd be sent to his room or punished in some other way. The Nanny described it as he was being punished every time he tried to express his opinion, and was really getting frustrated by it. In other words, he was punished whenever the girls did something.
I dealt with similar treatment when I was growing up.

When Nanny left and one of the girls harassed him in his room while doing homework, something that was against the rules, he told the girl to get out of his room, his mother yelled at him for using a disrespectful one with his sister! Nanny gave him a "Thought Box," where he could put notes about his thoughts his mother could read and discuss with him. When he said he thought there were no consequnces for the girls when they did something to him and he was punished when he spoke up, the mother actually made excuses like "You were 4 once."

The Nanny came back and corrected this, and the mother even once actually defended her son when he was playing a video game and one of the girls shut it off, and even punished the girl for doing it(send to the naughty corner).

Those little girls acted like they had never been told to do anything by their parents in their lived and did whatever they wanted, and fought back at everything. That wouldn't have flown with my parents. Some kids need a good old fashioned spanking!

I don't understand how parents can be so clueless as to let the kids take over the house, even when they are only 4 years old!

Craig Stirling

Champion of law, order, and justice.