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Are you familiar with Super Nanny? Basically, it's an hour long reality show where Jo, the Super nanny, comes to help out some poor helpless parents who are struggling big-time with their kids. Toddlers that won't go to (or stay in bed), kids throwing tantrums all over the place, tweens with attitudes, teens with attitudes, parents not seeing eye-to-eye, parents getting hit, kicked, punched, and/or spit at. The first half of the show is spent showing just how horrible the situation is and Jo establishes some rules, gives the parents advice and pep talks, and then leaves them to fend on their own. She returns the second half to review how they did, and "tweak" some techniques for everyone.
It's actually a great show to watch after a long day with my own kids, because I can sit back and think, "hey, at least it's not that bad here." Especially the episodes with young kids - and those kids who don't go to bed and sleep. Heck, we've got that sleep thing down pat over here. The episodes with older kids actually scare me just a bit - I always end up thinking, "How the hell did it get to be that bad for them?" And lately, I've been wishing there was some show with a Not-So-Super Nanny, for parents like us. Parents who pretty much have things under control, but then there's the little things and we just don't know what to do with. For us that would be the whining. We've tried ignoring it, or saying, "I'm not going to answer you when you use that voice." We've tried demonstrating how nasty it sounds. We've tried not giving him what he wants if he whined for it - even if he then goes back and asks in a "nice voice." (And the thing is - the nice voice isn't that nice, really.) And perhaps our problem is that we haven't tried any one technique for an extended period of time. But the problem with that is - what are we supposed to try - what's the technique that's been proved to work for whining? Oh, Not-So-Super Nanny, we need your help!
What help do you need for the Not-So-Super Nanny?
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I would like an Asperger's Not-so-super Nanny. Someone who would tell us how to deal with the sassy voice and the whining and the tendency to blurt out personal information about his family to total strangers. Hmm, I'm making myself sound like a real crap parent here. Ok, I change my answer. I want help with potty training.
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