May 12, 2005
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OKAY, I GET IT! If one more person asks me if I’ve seen “Nanny 911″ while I am commenting on this, that or the other annoying habit employed by one of my children during dinner or naptime, I will scream. Worse yet was the inquiry that came right out of the blue from the casual acquaintance after a studied gaze as my monkeys tumbled down the street in their usual dustcloud of heaving, whining, crying and fighting. Yes, I do understand the implication, however subtle, that perhaps I ought to be watching, learning from or maybe even starring as the next victim/parent, however, three people this week have mentioned this to me, THREE, damnit, and I am tired of it. And one of them was my mother. Can I get a harumph?
Maybe my kids are all in a phase. At once. Perhaps my home is the convergence of three lunar/solar spots or the sibling equivalent of Jupiter aligning with Mars or some such thing. After all, they are in such difficult stages, right? With the breathing and the growing and the teeth coming in or falling out. Surely it couldn’t be me.
What channel is it on, anyway?
kim
Comments (10)
whaaa??? Your kids are angels compared to hellions on Nanny 911. I watch it mostly to get an ego-boost and a dose of “my-kids-aren’t-*that*-bad”.. watch it, you will thank your lucky stars you got off so easy
8 pm Monday FOX
thanks, C. from the few preview spots i’ve seen i wasn’t very excited to see it, and even less excited to be subtley tossed in with the, uh, nanny-needy. again…harumph, but maybe will watch for tips.
kim
I don’t watch those nanny shows, but I think your kids are well behaved and relatively easy to babysit, especially considering they way outnumber me.
OMG-those shows are horrible. They put kids in corners and Naughty chairs and use punitive parenting. If you want parenting advise, go to mothering.com
As for jupiter and mars aligning, I think kids go bezerk on full moons. Next time they go bonkers, check the moon, and sure enough, there it is, usually big and round and all lit up.
Nanny 911 is more about disciplining the parents, and I have seen a lot of positive reinforcement to correct out of control behaviors in the kids. I have heard that SuperNanny is more punitive.
i forgot to say earlier, it better be a stage x 3.. because we are in the thick of it too and I’m ready to tear my hair out
seeing as how kids are better behaved for non-parents, maybe we should just switch.. they’re pretty interchangable, all cute blondies
Not once not ever ever has anyone recommended the nanny shows to me (people usually cut a wide swath when they see us coming) But yesterday at Best Buy as Atom#2 was lying in the DVD horror section and Atom#1 was pulling my shirt begging for the Pirates video game the man helping me find what I was looking for asked if I had ever seen Nanny 911 show……Our comic lives are colliding again…(Yes I ment to say comic not cosmic)
My FIL insisted that W and I watch Supernanny, and he even got pissed cuz we put it off and watched CSI instead for a few weeks. He called us specially to follow up and see if we had watched it. I’ve never seen children as horrible as the ones on TV, and especially not yours. They may have habits or be rowdy or whatever, but they don’t assult you or scream for no reason. And you are not clueless like the parents on TV either.
Kids behave better for other people than they do for their parents. I’ve only watched once and the kids were fine, the parents just needed childcare. They were both working full time and had two sets of twins under the age of four and no childcare at all. Didn’t need a nanny to figure out their problem.
well since it seems unanimous that kids behave better for strangers, i’ve decided to invest in an entire separate wardrobe to disguise myself as various “visitors” during the dinner hours, since this is by far the worst time around here. maybe i’ll pretend to be a visiting chef, long lost aunt/uncle or whomever i feel like being that day. “mom” is obviously too forgiving to behave well for on an ongoing basis. and C, i agree, our kids could easily be one big happy (?) family. could we sell them as a lot?
kim aka Uncle Herman
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