Sorting Out The SuperNanny
Have you heard the news? The Super Nanny season premier is Friday, today! Who knows what this season will bring? I am hoping some developmentally accurate information will be shared on the show.
The advertisement for the Super Nanny show again depicts the Super Nanny as someone every family needs for healthy parenting. Parents, try to […]
ABC and NBC are flooding the T.V. market place with parenting advice. Between the Super Nanny and The Baby Borrowers you’d think America’s parents don’t have clue about how to care for their own children. Well I think that is insulting the intelligence of parents. It makes me mad!
The teenagers that are trying to parent […]
Written on June 19, 2008 – 7:08 pm
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
Do you have a strong-willed child? Super Nanny gave us a taste last night of how we label kids with this term. There are tons of books out there on ‘strong willed’ kids. But, have you ever seen a book on the strong willed parent? I have never seen one, so I think not!
The truth […]
Written on June 12, 2008 – 5:12 pm
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
t the risk of sounding like a broken record… I’ve said it before and I won’t stop saying it, “Time-Outs NEVER change behavior; they only stop behavior”.
So, parents don’t fool yourself into thinking that because you remove your child for a certain amount of minutes in a certain place (in this weeks case it […]
Written on June 5, 2008 – 10:31 am
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
I find myself having to sift through all the negative messages the Super Nanny gives the parents to get to the good stuff.
Shame on you Super Nanny!
For the life of me I cannot understand why the Super Nanny shames parents. This week there were all sorts of great messages from the Super Nanny, like, “Teenagers […]
Written on May 29, 2008 – 9:59 pm
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
If you are not asking yourself ‘why’ should I follow the Super Nanny’s advice, you need to start now.
Have you ever done something and then asked yourself, why did I do that? The Super Nanny’s advice goes uncontested every week. Every week I ask myself ‘why’ does she recommend that parents do that?
Here is […]
Written on May 15, 2008 – 8:28 pm
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
A mom reluctantly standing on her own stairway landing as someone (Jo Frost) comes into her home to tell her how to parent is normal. The SuperNanny calling her ‘rude’ for not welcoming her with open arms is not!
The SuperNanny taking the “big boys” in this family aside to ask their opinion without having mom […]
Written on May 8, 2008 – 8:41 pm
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
A sensitive SuperNanny is who we saw this week. Hooray Prime Time for giving parents here at home an insight into the profound sorrow and loss a single parent feels while their spouse is off fighting in Iraq.
A kinder, gentler Super Nanny suggests mom “bring some life back into her home”. Helping mom and the […]
Written on May 1, 2008 – 11:55 am
Posted in Dr. Ann's Place for Parents
I will never understand the Super Nanny and Prime Time Televisions seeming compulsion to degrade parents in order to help them. It is so unnecessary and besides that it gives the ‘helping professions’ a really bad name.
The message seems to be that you need to be horrible in order to get help. Instead of praising […]
Watching & listening to mom as she says, “I’m not doing a really good job” as her eyes are down cast looking extremely ashamed was painful for me. As usual, the Super Nanny begins by berating these parents about their lack of follow through, lack of respect for their house and mom’s need to have her […]
