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**The Fernandez parents are extremely verbally abusive before Jo finishes her work. Mom is particularly guilty. She threatens to knock her kids' teeth out or bust their lips. She also uses the police as a threat, and points out random strangers on the street to her two young sons. She then tells them that the stranger (a man in the case Jo observes) "takes away little boys who don't listen to their parents...he takes them into the kitchen, chops them up, and eats them."
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**Eight-year-old Marli Prescott is perhaps the youngest example of this. She has six siblings, and on the submission tape, Mom is constantly heard saying, "Marli, could you..." (followed by some chore or favor).
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**The Swift family: Jack, Josh, Max, Mia, and...Sean. However, Sean gets points because Sean Swift is an AlliterativeName.
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* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted hard. When Jo meets the Baulisch parents, both of whom are deaf, she makes clear that deafness should not effect the effort and quality of parenting. In the cases where a family has a disabled child, Jo respects modifications but treats him or her like any other kid.
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* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted hard.Averted. When Jo meets the Baulisch parents, both of whom are deaf, she makes clear that deafness should not effect the effort and quality of parenting. In the cases where a family has a disabled child, Jo respects modifications but treats him or her like any other kid.
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** Also the Quinn family: Cally, Casey, Corey, and Carli. The Drake family had Josie, Jordan, and Justin.
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** Also the Quinn family: Cally, Casey, Corey, and Carli. The Drake family had Josie, Jordan, and Justin.Justin.
**The Mann family also has a unique example. Parents Melissa and Mark share their M name with one of their triplets, Madeline. The other children are Nathaniel and Nora (triplets) and Naomi (not a multiple, oldest child).
**The Mann family also has a unique example. Parents Melissa and Mark share their M name with one of their triplets, Madeline. The other children are Nathaniel and Nora (triplets) and Naomi (not a multiple, oldest child).
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** Averted pretty hard with several, such as the teenage Chapman girls and fourteen-year-old Morgan Davis.
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** Averted pretty hard with several, such as the teenage Chapman girls and fourteen-year-old Morgan Davis.
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* NoExportForYou: Before coming to the U.S., ''Supernanny'' had at least four seasons in the U.K. A few of the U.K. episodes have been aired in America, but they're treated as if Jo is returning for a visit. The majority of U.K. episodes have not been aired in the U.S. and are only accessible through YouTube and select DVDs.
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**The Simmons family has a unique situation where their two sets of twins have one P and one S name--Payton and Sophia, and Parker and Sydney.
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* MultigenerationHousehold: MultigenerationalHousehold: Fairly often, a family will have parents and grandparents under the same roof or in close enough proximity to be with the kids 24-7. Single mom Jency Williams even had help from her kids' great-grandparents.great-grandparents.
* MyBelovedSmother: A couple of the moms are like this, often because they feel their kids are growing up too fast. The Porter mother took this so far as to have her four-year-old twins still wearing diapers at night and drinking from bottles.
* MyBelovedSmother: A couple of the moms are like this, often because they feel their kids are growing up too fast. The Porter mother took this so far as to have her four-year-old twins still wearing diapers at night and drinking from bottles.
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* OddNameOut: Gianna DeMello is the only member of her family, including parents, whose name does not begin with D.
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** Averted pretty hard with several, such as the teenage Chapman girls and fourteen-year-old Morgan Davis.
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**Some of the dads are bumbling in the sense that they want to be their kids' buddies, leaving Mom to handle all the discipline. What results is a good cop/bad cop scenario Jo immediately puts the kibosh on.
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* CoolOldGuy/CoolOldLady: A lot of the grandparents featured on the show.
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*MultigenerationHousehold: Fairly often, a family will have parents and grandparents under the same roof or in close enough proximity to be with the kids 24-7. Single mom Jency Williams even had help from her kids' great-grandparents.
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* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Averted hard. When Jo meets the Baulisch parents, both of whom are deaf, she makes clear that deafness should not effect the effort and quality of parenting. In the cases where a family has a disabled child, Jo respects modifications but treats him or her like any other kid.
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**Popped up again with the Amouri family, but was subverted. The parents allowed their four-year-old daughter to listen to explicit songs on an MP3 player. After making clear that this was not okay, Jo suggested more appropriate music and applauded the parents for using it.
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** Also the Quinn family: Cally, Casey, Corey, and Carli.
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* PromotionToParent: Happens a lot with older kids. Logan Costello, the oldest of ten, was expected to babysit all his younger siblings at the whim of his parents and act as a third dad. Melissa Baulisch was left with much of the responsibility for the little kids in her family because her parents were deaf and having a hard time with discipline. In the most egregious case, the oldest two Chapman girls called Jo in rather than the parents summoning her. Jo found that the girls had an insane babysitting and chore schedule. In fact, they were so stressed that the younger of the two girls, Brittany [[spoiler: passed out on camera.]]
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* TheUnfavorite: Happened quite a few times. This could be a case of outright favoritism or simply overlooking one child because of the bad behavior of another. Examples:
**The Wischmeyers, where nine-year-old Jared was both ignored because of, and blamed for, his four-year-old twin sisters' bad behavior.
**The Daniels. Twelve-year-old Halley is a generally good kid, but Jo finds that Mom overloads her with chores to "keep her out of trouble" because of unnamed "issues." Even worse, Halley's younger sister Alexus is allowed to bully her, to the point of spitting in her face, and Mom and Dad do nothing.
**The McGrath and Van Acker families. Their daughters, both named Emma, are loved, but overlooked because of their brothers' respective diabetes and constant shrieking/bad behavior.
**A mild case with the Tsironis family. Mom and Dad are so happy that two-year-old preemie twins Nicholas and Teddy are now healthy that they do not discipline them. They also ignore their older daughter Kate, to the point that she [[spoiler: fakes foot cramps]] to get attention.
**The Wischmeyers, where nine-year-old Jared was both ignored because of, and blamed for, his four-year-old twin sisters' bad behavior.
**The Daniels. Twelve-year-old Halley is a generally good kid, but Jo finds that Mom overloads her with chores to "keep her out of trouble" because of unnamed "issues." Even worse, Halley's younger sister Alexus is allowed to bully her, to the point of spitting in her face, and Mom and Dad do nothing.
**The McGrath and Van Acker families. Their daughters, both named Emma, are loved, but overlooked because of their brothers' respective diabetes and constant shrieking/bad behavior.
**A mild case with the Tsironis family. Mom and Dad are so happy that two-year-old preemie twins Nicholas and Teddy are now healthy that they do not discipline them. They also ignore their older daughter Kate, to the point that she [[spoiler: fakes foot cramps]] to get attention.
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* AsianAndNerdy: The parents of the An-Duan family seem to want their kids to become this. Thus, they overload them with activities like Chinese school, sports, ballet, writer's workshops, and more. Jo gets them to shape up, though, and the trope is averted.
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* BumblingDad: On ''Supernanny'', if you're not a workaholic dad or a DrillSergeantNasty, you might be this. These are mostly the dads who prefer to sleep, play on the computer, or watch TV rather than being involved with their kids. Jo makes it clear that she doesn't appreciate it.
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* EducationMama: The An-Duan mom is a mild version. We don't see her insisting on perfect grades, but she gets rather upset when Jo suggests that one of her sons stop seeing a language arts tutor (he and his siblings were already loaded down with activities). The reason he was seeing a tutor? At nine years old, he apparently didn't have a perfect grasp of "sentence structure" and "descriptive paragraphs."
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* ParentsAsPeople: At least before Jo works her magic. Jo can also be quite sympathetic to stressed-out parents who ''want'' to do the best they can for their kids but are falling short due to extenuating circumstances, such as DadTheVeteran situations or situations where one parent is gone.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jo is fairly calm about it, but she will hand these down to families who are particularly out of control. Parents who spank, wash their kids' mouths out with soap, or engage in similar types of discipline are likely to hear one of these speeches--and maybe more than one. Jo has also given this speech to older kids who are ungrateful or especially bratty.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jo is fairly calm about it, but she will hand these down to families who are particularly out of control. Parents who spank, wash their kids' mouths out with soap, or engage in similar types of discipline are likely to hear one of these speeches--and maybe more than one. Jo has also given this speech to older kids who are ungrateful or especially bratty.bratty.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Jo has dealt with her share of workaholic parents, both moms and dads. Sometimes this even happens with stay-at-home moms, like the Amouri and Larmer mothers, who are so concerned with cleaning their homes that they don't actually spend time with their kids.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Jo has dealt with her share of workaholic parents, both moms and dads. Sometimes this even happens with stay-at-home moms, like the Amouri and Larmer mothers, who are so concerned with cleaning their homes that they don't actually spend time with their kids.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Many of the sterner parents act like this. It's usually the dad, but there have been a couple of DrillSergeantNasty mothers, too. The Bowersock mother, who literally made her kids eat soap, was one. The Bixley mom from the U.K., who responded to picky eating by forcing food into her son's face, was another.
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* AffectionateNickname: A few. The Schwartz girls call their Aunt Donna "Nonnie." The Young parents have nicknames for their two youngest boys, Makai (Kai-Guy) and Crew (Crewbie).
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: A couple of times. The Costellos had ten kids; the Millers had six.
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* AlliterativeName: Some families have these, especially those with twins. The Keilens have twins Maile (pronounced "Miley") and Malia, while the Uva family has seven-year-old Trevor and five-year-old Travis. The Goins family has this as well; it overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming since all three kids have K names (Kallan, Kolben, and Kadance).
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* AlliterativeName: Some families have these, especially those with twins. The Keilens have twins Maile (pronounced "Miley") and Malia, while the Uva family has seven-year-old Trevor and five-year-old Travis. The Goins family has this as well; it overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming since all three kids have K names (Kallan, Kolben, and Kadance).Kadance).
* BrattyHalfPint: The younger counterparts, either boys or girls, to the BrattyTeenageDaughter trope.
* BrattyHalfPint: The younger counterparts, either boys or girls, to the BrattyTeenageDaughter trope.
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* AlliterativeName: Some families have these, especially those with twins. The Keilens have twins Maile (pronounced "Miley") and Malia, while the Uva family has seven-year-old Trevor and five-year-old Travis. The Goins family has this as well; it overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming since all three kids have K names (Kallan, Kolben, and Kadance).
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* DadTheVeteran: Jo has helped a couple of families where the dad's in the service, notably the Merrills and McMillions.
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* HappilyAdopted: The Merrill kids are all adopted, two from Ghana and two from Guatemala. Some families, like the Walkers, are also raising a niece or nephew along with the biological kids.
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* CuteButCacophonic: Lord, some of these cute little kids can SCREAM. Adam Gorbea, age 2, and Dylan Van Acker, 3, were two of the biggest offenders.
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* AbusiveParents: Jo has called a few parents out on corporal punishment or using hot sauce to keep a child from talking back. She also took one dad to task for calling his son a "little whiny brat." But the worst case was with the Davis family, where the father made a habit of using his belt on his kids and calling his daughters b---, "whore," and "slut."
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* AbusiveParents: Jo has called a few parents out on corporal punishment or using hot sauce to keep a child from talking back. She also took one dad to task for calling his son a "little whiny brat." But the worst case was with the Davis family, where the father made a habit of using his belt on his kids and calling his daughters b---, b--, "whore," and "slut."
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* InnocentSwearing: Subverted big-time. Some of these kids, most shockingly the little ones, not only swear like crazy, but know exactly what the words mean and why they are using them.
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* Ill Girl/Boy: The mom from the Tsironis family justifies letting her toddler twins do whatever they want because they almost died shortly after birth. The parents from the McGrath family don't discipline five-year-old Aidan partially because of diabetes; the maternal grandfather died from this disease, and Mom was scared her son would succumb as well. The Bruno family has a fifteen-year-old, Mariah, with cerebral palsy, but she is not a discipline problem. Jo has also dealt with autism and Down syndrome, but again, the parents there are not so much using the disabilities as excuses for bad behavior, as much as they are asking for help on how to relate to their kids.
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* [[IllGirl Ill Girl/Boy: Girl/Boy]]: The mom from the Tsironis family justifies letting her toddler twins do whatever they want because they almost died shortly after birth. The parents from the McGrath [=McGrath=] family don't discipline five-year-old Aidan partially because of diabetes; the maternal grandfather died from this disease, and Mom was scared her son would succumb as well. The Bruno family has a fifteen-year-old, Mariah, with cerebral palsy, but she is not a discipline problem. Jo has also dealt with autism and Down syndrome, but again, the parents there are not so much using the disabilities as excuses for bad behavior, as much as they are asking for help on how to relate to their kids.
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*DarkerAndEdgier: The new series Family SOS with Jo Frost is, in some ways, a reincarnation of this show, but often deals with much more serious issues. The kids are usually older, and parents generally have deep-seated marriage, abuse, and other problems. Some older kids are downright violent with family members. Social issues tend to be deeper and more controversial as well; a recent episode had Jo helping a teenager who had recently come out as a lesbian.
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RealityTV show which originated in the United Kingdom about parents struggling with their children's behaviour. The UK version has aired on ChannelFour since 2004, and the US version on Creator/{{ABC}} since 2005.
Professional nanny Jo Frost devotes each episode to helping a family where the parents are struggling with their child rearing. Through instruction and observation, she shows the parents alternative ways to discipline their children and regain order in their households. Frost is a proponent of the "naughty chair" theory of discipline, and is strictly opposed to spanking.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Jo has called a few parents out on corporal punishment or using hot sauce to keep a child from talking back. She also took one dad to task for calling his son a "little whiny brat." But the worst case was with the Davis family, where the father made a habit of using his belt on his kids and calling his daughters b---, "whore," and "slut."
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Most of the time.
* Don't Make me Take my Belt Off: See *Abusive Parents, especially the Davis family.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Sometimes, as with the Froebrichs, all of whose children had E names (Emerson, Emmett, Emma Jo), and a couple of others.
* HandsOffParenting: Sometimes.
* Ill Girl/Boy: The mom from the Tsironis family justifies letting her toddler twins do whatever they want because they almost died shortly after birth. The parents from the McGrath family don't discipline five-year-old Aidan partially because of diabetes; the maternal grandfather died from this disease, and Mom was scared her son would succumb as well. The Bruno family has a fifteen-year-old, Mariah, with cerebral palsy, but she is not a discipline problem. Jo has also dealt with autism and Down syndrome, but again, the parents there are not so much using the disabilities as excuses for bad behavior, as much as they are asking for help on how to relate to their kids.
* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Often because of death.
* NewMediaAreEvil: In a recent interview to promote the show, Jo blamed [[MurderSimulators violent video games]] for the riots in London in August 2011. In one episode, she blamed video games for a child's behavior '''even though he didn't own a console and had no friends where he could've played video games.'''
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Professional nanny Jo Frost devotes each episode to helping a family where the parents are struggling with their child rearing. Through instruction and observation, she shows the parents alternative ways to discipline their children and regain order in their households. Frost is a proponent of the "naughty chair" theory of discipline, and is strictly opposed to spanking.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Jo has called a few parents out on corporal punishment or using hot sauce to keep a child from talking back. She also took one dad to task for calling his son a "little whiny brat." But the worst case was with the Davis family, where the father made a habit of using his belt on his kids and calling his daughters b---, "whore," and "slut."
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Most of the time.
* Don't Make me Take my Belt Off: See *Abusive Parents, especially the Davis family.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Sometimes, as with the Froebrichs, all of whose children had E names (Emerson, Emmett, Emma Jo), and a couple of others.
* HandsOffParenting: Sometimes.
* Ill Girl/Boy: The mom from the Tsironis family justifies letting her toddler twins do whatever they want because they almost died shortly after birth. The parents from the McGrath family don't discipline five-year-old Aidan partially because of diabetes; the maternal grandfather died from this disease, and Mom was scared her son would succumb as well. The Bruno family has a fifteen-year-old, Mariah, with cerebral palsy, but she is not a discipline problem. Jo has also dealt with autism and Down syndrome, but again, the parents there are not so much using the disabilities as excuses for bad behavior, as much as they are asking for help on how to relate to their kids.
* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Often because of death.
* NewMediaAreEvil: In a recent interview to promote the show, Jo blamed [[MurderSimulators violent video games]] for the riots in London in August 2011. In one episode, she blamed video games for a child's behavior '''even though he didn't own a console and had no friends where he could've played video games.'''
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