Why have I become obsessed with The House of Tiny Tearaways?

isn't it, mrs "lurking" fiendish?

:)

ned, what are you on about?

but yes, fascinating prog. all comes down to children capitalising on chinks (sometimes very big, obvious chinks) in their parents' armour.

I once fell in love with a girl who looked like Doctor Tanya. Well, more like a mix of Dr Tanya and Catherine Deneuve. Perhaps this has something to do with it. Mind you, the program's educational too. I now know how to make mute children speak and rickety children eat. She is like a new Jesus.

this is so wrong i can't think of anything else to say.

Look, everybody that hasn't got kids, this is how arguments happen. Now you can experience it without actually experiencing it.

Some interesting stuff, but I'm not sure I want to listen to children crying when not strictly necessary. They should have a selectively muted version available by pressing the red button.

I do not fancy Dr Tanya in the slightest. I would rather get off with Gail out of Coronation Street.

but yes, i thought the common thinking was not to leave children crying (was an nspcc appeal using just this thing a few years back) whereas she seems advocate letting them get on with it and ignoring them whilst they do, locking them away even.

she also actively makes the parents sob. every single episode.

great to see the progress she can make in a week though.

"common thinking" in "might be a load of old shit, then!" shockah.

i mean, obviously it's subjective; it's up to each parent how they, umm, parent. certainly, though, i'm on dr tanya's side here (and not just because she's lovely). watching the way various friends and in-laws do the whole dealing-with-children thang, i have to say that those who follow a more dr-tanya-esque route seem a) to be far happier and less stressed, and b) to have far happier and better-adjusted children.

but given that i don't like spending time with children and would rather, from a purely selfish point of view, that they were rarely seen and never heard, i'm maybe not the best person to comment. all i can go on is what i see around me.

Textbook way of producing needy, mollycoddled brats who end up controlling thier parents.
I don't watch this all that often but when I do I invariably end up having to wipe away a tear. Last episode: when the father went back to hug his little girl who had been silently carrying the distress of seeing her sister ill in hospital a couple of (long) years beforehand.

She needs to make Mums cry so she can then give them a hug. I think everyone could do with a hugging psychologist now and again.

I like watching programmes like this and Super Nanny because they make me feel like a good parent.

point: Just because the kids see anti-social behaviour on TV, doesn't mean they want to emulate it.

OnimOTM.