Ever watch Supernanny on ABC? The show is pretty rockin. A nanny from England visits families throughout the country helping them with their dysfunctional family dynamic and wild, crazy children. I love that the nanny on the show is actually a very sweet woman who really wants the families lives to improve. She is always upbeat and persistent.

The best part of the show is when the nanny tells it like it is to the parents and helps them implement new strategies with their kids. 9 times out of 10, most of the children’s problems stem from parents who don’t get along, or a workaholic parent who ignores them, etc. Pretty obvious stuff to everyone else, except for the families involved. I guess that is always the way though. It is so easy to size up others but very difficult to turn the magnifying glass on ourselves.

The show usually ends with the parents trying out some of the new strategies she taught them and the children responding immediately. The parents always end the show with something along the lines of,  I never thought my children could change so quickly, or if I had known it could be like this I would have done this long ago! I hope I don’t have the type of children that would make good fodder for a show like this. And I hope that when I do have children I can still watch this show with awe and think geez, who acts like that?! Please oh please!

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