I actually rate that supernanny chose this as a job, she’s a better woman than me

My Indian mom said she got tensed watching this episode. If your child’s behavior is so bad it scares an Indian mom, you know you fucked up.

The way Super Nanny didn't even flinch when Meghan practically jumped the table to swing at her, the woman is simply built different😭😭

Supernanny: exists
Meghan: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary

The best advice I ever got before I had my second baby was: when both children are crying, take care of the older one first. They’ll never feel
Ignored or replaced, they will calm down quicker, and then have them hel with calming the baby. It give them purpose and they learn to love their sibiling. My kids are absolute best friends and I really think it’s because we started this way.

As a teacher, I've learned to never raise my voice. Here are the reasons:
1) the energy that you give to your kids is the energy you get back
2) the teacher that constantly raises their voice is constantly raising their voice-- that becomes the baseline.
3) if I raise my voice it's for a reason and to have an effect. If you never raise your voice, and then you suddenly do, it's very very effective.

The dad looks like he’s shat somewhere n is worried someone is gonna find it

Supernanny was originally a nanny to the rich and famous so she's dealt with some of the worst kids society has to offer, that's how she keeps her cool.

26:58 this stage is actually a known phenomenon called the “extinction burst.” Where the subject (could be dogs, cats, children, people) have found a behavior that gets them their desired outcome, and it all of a sudden no longer works. So they do that known behavior, crank it up as high as they can, in hopes that it will work again. It’s incredibly important to follow through with not letting it work. Because if you give in, then they will actually tap into another behavioral phenomenon called “intermittent reward” (which is the reason why gambling is so addictive) and then it will be 10x harder to stop the behavior than it was to begin with.

What annoys me is parents telling kids off for completely mundane things like swinging a yoyo. Give a bit of wiggle room and pick your battles

This is why therapy and mental health tests diagnosis etc are so important and not all kids “grow out of it”

Growing up in the 2000s my mom used to threaten she’d ring super nannny to come if I didn’t behave I’d cry and beg her not to  super nanny had some power 🤣

23:16 I started acting out when my mum gave birth to my siblings and the nurse explained it really well to my mum, she said “imagine your husband brings another woman to your house and says that from today she’s also living here, you wouldn’t be happy, so be a bit patient with the child because that’s how she feels”.

My mother was a daycare provider for over a decade when I was growing up, and lemme tell you kids never acted up when they were at the daycare. Not out of fear, but because they were out of their household. When a child acts up that badly - and you’re not getting messages from the school about them acting the same there - then the problem is at home. Children are children, they aren’t short adults. Always start with the parents, because 90% of the time that’s where the problem begins.

I feel like a lot of the ‘bad kids’ are neurodivergent and their needs aren’t being met.

As a teacher, I don’t get how you can’t see that all of Meghan’s behavior is picked up from her mother. Like her mother, she lashes out and screams as her main form of communication. I have worked with some “challenging” students and never have I screamed like that, maybe I’ve changed my tone, but never the aggressive yelling . The father is able to spend time with the children because his relationship with them is based in positivity and understanding. Meanwhile the mother doesn’t even try to understand her daughters, she believes that by virtue of being their mother they owe her respect. Respect is earned.

That mum needed a therapist or a psychologist badly. Any time one of the kids acted out or things just didn’t go the way she expected, she panicked and completely lost her marbles. No one the kids have trouble with emotional regulation and appropriate responses when their mother’s response to a slight inconvenience is to go mental.
Just another example of why mental health is important.

Paul ended up abandoning the family when his wife got cancer, so he truly was a shitty person all-around.

Parents in the early 00s would be like
‘do I need family counseling and possibly a pediatric psych evaluation? Could my child’s behavior be the result of some dysfunction on my part, or maybe some trauma I don’t know about? Nah, I’m gonna put my kids on tv showing how awful they are.’

i think this show perfectly highlights the division of labour in nuclear families because if you’re under social pressure to be the perfect mother 24/7 and you take responsibility the majority of their care you’re gonna feel like you’ve failed