Opening[]
Announcer: "Tonight on Supernanny, Jo meets the Minyons ."
Jo: "Good morning."
Frank: "Good morning."
Announcer: "A young family who have lost power to their 4-year-old daughter..."
Danielle: You don't kick!
Frank Patrick's Grandmother: "Stop it!"
Announcer: "While Mom fights for control."
Danielle: I just hate making her cry.
Announcer: And Dad's tough love proves challenging.
Frank: Shut your mouth and start doing your homework.
Announcer: Jo will try to get this family back on track.
Frank: Start over.
Jo: You used language that was Abusive.
Frank: You're just a little whiny brat
Submission Reel[]
Jo: Let's take a look this week and see what family we've got here.
Frank: Hello, this is the Minyon family. I'm Frank, 29 years old.
Danielle: And I'm Danielle, I'm 26.
Frank: We have 2 children. Frank Patrick, who's 7, And Skyler, who's 4.
Danielle: I have no idea that having kids could be so much different.
Danielle: Don't you hit me!
Danielle: They're not quite as easy as I thought it would be.
[Skyler screaming and crying] I don't want to get a time out!
Danielle: You don't hit mommy!
[Skyler screaming]
Danielle: Skyler's very difficult. She's got some rage issues.
Danielle: Skyler!
Danielle: She just goes ballistic.
Danielle: Stop it!
Jo: My word.
Danielle: Frank absolutely does not get as much of our attention because of our daughter.
Frank: I'm sad to say that I don't spend enough time with my son.
Danielle: Frank doesn't like to wake up early in the morning and when I do get him up I have to physically dress him while he's in the bed.
[Jo shakes her head]
Danielle: Frank, how come you never help me get yourself dressed early in the morning?
Frank Patrick: Because I'm tired.
Jo: He's 7 years old. This is way beyond the joke here.
[Skyler screaming]
Frank: I would just like my family to be happy.
[Skyler whining and crying] I'm not gonna be good.
Danielle: Supernanny, help us, we can't stop our daughter's fits. We don't have the answers and we really need help.
Jo: Mom and Dad, I'm on my way.
Observation begins[]
Jo: Good morning.
Frank: Good morning.
Jo: Pleased to meet you. I'm Jo.
Frank: I'm Frank.
Jo: Good.
Frank: This is my wife Danielle.
Jo: Hi, Danielle, how are you?
Danielle: Good.
Jo: Very in the morning I hope.
Frank: It sure is.
Jo: Well I heard that you've got some issues that need to be sorted out with guarding and mornings getting children up and ready for school.
Frank: Sure do!
Frank: Jo's presence felt very strong kind of almost like principal I felt as if school was about to begin.
Jo: Well like you both to do today is to just to carry on as normal make here not here would be flammable with children today okay.
Danielle: I felt so relieved that Jo was at the house and i was finally gonna get some answers to my crazy household.
Jo: And correct I think water.
Frank: Sure is, sure is.
Jo: I'm just gonna sit back and watch
Danielle: Frank, come on buddy. It's time to wake up.
Jo: Soon afterwards, Mum went into Skyler's bedroom...
Danielle: Skyler...
Jo: …and attempted to wake her up.
Danielle: Come on... Frank, rise and shine.
Danielle [At Skyler]: You awake yet?
Danielle [At Frank]: Come on bud,
Jo: Mum told Skyler that she needed to get dressed because she was going off to school today.
Danielle: The cops are gonna come and get Mommy if you're not at school.
Skyler: I don't wanna go to school.
Danielle: Come on.
Skyler: No!
Danielle: Skyler, please.
Skyler: No!
Jo: And that's when the fireworks went off.
Danielle: Don't start that in the morning.
Skyler: I want to get down! [Wailing]
Danielle: Skye...
Skyler: I don't want to go to school! I'm not getting dressed. I want my clothes off!
Jo: Skyler was clearly running things in this household.
Jo [At Danielle]: What happens now?
Danielle: Each day at school it's getting worse and worse. I just bought her new shoes yesterday but still, she's not getting dressed.
Jo: Where is Dad, Danielle?
Danielle: Getting ready for work.
Jo: So do you normally get Frank dressed every morning?
Danielle: In his bed, he usually won't get out of bed until I physically dress him.
Jo: He's a big boy! And yet she was dressing him.
Danielle: Otherwise, I'll fight with him all morning to actually get out of bed, he won't even get out of bed.
Jo: Very suddenly I realized Frank didn't do much in the morning, Mum did absolutely everything. I mean, I don't think anybody knows where they're going, they're like puppies chasing their tails in the morning.
Danielle: You're gonna find your sneakers? You're gonna brush your teeth?
Danielle: Sometimes I like my husband out more to help me in the morning.
Danielle: I usually have to take a brunt of the storm by myself
Danielle: I'm gonna have to have Daddy help me dress you.
Frank: will you pick some clothes
Jo: Skyler at dunking the hills I mean she was having none of it
Skyler: I want to get down
Frank: I really have to me having to leave for work in the middle of the chaotic portions of the morning is not a comforting feeling walking out the front door
Skyler I don't want to go to school
Danielle: he killed me
Danielle: that doesn't hurt I can't figure the problem
Skyler: I don't want to go to school
Danielle: I hate seeing her cry like that or nothing
Skyler: I don't want to go to school
Danielle: It's easier to give her way cuz I'm 26
Jo: mom's emotionally drained from all of it
Danielle: you are going to school
Jo: frank had removed himself from the high-pitched crying It's quite worrying actually that was on his own having to make do with mom dealing with Skyler
Danielle: do you want to make your lunch or not
Jo: all dressed
Danielle: ready no shoes on no toothbrush but we're going
Jo: bye
Danielle: bye nanny
Jo: that's a cut on the time an hour 15 minutes to get Skyler up dressed and to school what kind of mornings I'd want to see again that's for sure
Announcer: Coming up... Jo give a dose of reality.
Jo: Emotionally you're in a desperate situation.
Announcer: Will Frank is left to his own devices.
Jo: to get much time with mommy or daddy?
Frank Jr.: Not really.
Jo: Not really
Announcer: When Supernanny returns.
Observation Continues[]
Jo (Interview): I very quickly realized Skyler
Danielle: Skyler i want you to finish eating
Jo (interview): controls everybody in the household mom allows Skyler to runs around her
Danielle: Skyler
Danielle: Are you're hiding
Jo: So Frank, so did you much time with mommy and daddy to do things
Frank Patrick: un not really
Danielle: pick the pillows up off the floor
Skyler: No
Danielle: don't tell me no, pick them up please
Skyler: No
Danielle: Pick them up, do you want timeout?
Skyler: No
Danielle: pick them up please?
Danielle: pick the pillows up?!?
Skyler: NO!
Danielle: you know what you're going to timeout
Skyler: No
Danielle: Yes
Skyler: No!
Skyler: I don't want a timeout!
Danielle: yes you do
Jo (Interview): Skyler was having a tantrum plain and simple.
Danielle: are you gonna pick them up
Skyler: No!
Skyler: No mommy I don't want a timeout!
Danielle: you can sit there
Frank Patrick: my sister is not being a good girl.
Jo (Interview): after being told for the fourth time she was sent to the naughty chair which i was pleased to see but it wasn't being used correctly cuz mum never walks away and that just adds fuel to the fire
Skyler: Get off of Me!
Jo: what's a battle I mean it's just absolutely crazy
Danielle: Stop it! Sit down!
Jo: But That's Ridiculous, Skyler Hits mum a monster back
Danielle: Hey!
(Skyler Crying)
Danielle: you don't kick!
Danielle: I just feel like I'm gonna battle her forever and She's never gonna quit I usually
Danielle: let go
Skyler: No
Jo she always hit pull their hair and kicks
Danielle: and keep in sight
Jo (Interview): frank had removed himself desperately trying to find solitude achieved and really being robbed me of any of attention
Jo: tonight listening to that
Skyler: No I don't want a timeout
Skyler: Mommy
Jo: so what was achieved in all of this
Danielle: nothing
Jo: does that make you feel as a parent
Danielle: it sucks.
Danielle: it's like I know that she wins every time
(Skyler Sobbing)
Danielle: Cause I don't know what works.
Danielle: I've so many different things.
Danielle: … none of them work.
(Skyler Sobbing Continues)
Danielle: Is It worth fighting...
Danielle: … for two or three hours?
Danielle: yeah I'm just not strong enough to do it
Jo: they ended with Danielle desperately needing this hug from Skyler and and Skyler desperate to be held as well but nothing actually got solved
Frank: Hey Sky
Jo: when dad came home it gave me a chance to see how he interacts with his children
Frank: hey sky she could do wrong it's just daddy's little girl she is just precious everything
Frank: she does is cute
Frank: hey frank
Frank: if I even get one.
Frank: am I interrupting you first I went hello
Jo if there much interaction with you and frank do you spend much time doing things in the house
Frank watch your mouth
Frank Patrick: all right I'll try again.
Frank: we don't really interact probably as like a father son should or
Frank: what are you doing to the couch frank like had nothing in common with my son
Jo: son that's how you felt sometimes
Frank: sure
Frank: he really once again one word answers never really ever have a conversation with him
Frank: come on okay i need all those bikes put in the shed for me buddy
Jo: it became very clear to me that frank was a lot together on his son that he was on his daughter
Frank: I just need it in there whatever you got to do
Frank: oh my little helper
Frank thank you sweetheart
Jo: later on in the afternoon mom and dad had organized a barbeque and their friends and families came round came
Sharon: can I get a hug
Frank: you say hello sky
Jo: Skyler refused to say hello to anybody
Danielle: Skyler come say hello to Sharon
Frank: did you say hi to
Jo frank didn't bother to have any manners
Danielle: you don't need to be playing video games frank
Frank: when we have a family member or friend walk in the door
Frank: I feel it's just common courtesy to have everyone greet who's coming in
Danielle: you're not even saying hello
Danielle: I want you go sit with the kids baby
Danielle: there's always a chest
Jo: what's the barbeque started the children's behavior started to decline
Danielle: come on frank
Danielle: come to say bye everybody
Danielle: say goodbye
Skyler: No I don't want a hug
Frank: my kids just have a worst manners
Jo: Danielle and frank were really embarrassed by their children's lack of manners
Danielle: why does anyone want to come to the house and see you you're not gonna say hello and goodbye
Jo: but I do have really high standards and expectations of their children they expect into hug and kiss and demand
Frank: give a big hug oh
Jo: I feel competent about the issues that the Minyon family need to address and I can't wait to get started
Parent Meeting[]
[…]
Announcer: Coming up on Supernanny... When Jo lays down the law: Skyler goes on the run
[Skyler screaming and crying]
Skyler: I don't want to go in the time out.
Announcer: When Supernanny returns.
Teaching begins[]
Jo (Interview): The first thing I did after observing the family was to go back and to present them with a family routine which they desperately needed in order to gain some form of structure to their house,
[…]
Jo (Interview): "Danielle started to prepare dinner and Skyler wouldn't let her do so. She wanted to be picked up constantly."
Jo: "She's used to screaming, now you'll pick her up. You notice, If you pick her up, what you're doing is you're teaching Skyler every time she misbehaves this way, she wants you to just pick her up."
Jo: "So be a positive parent. Come down and say "Darling, mommy can't hold you right now, I'm cooking."
[Skyler hitting Danielle]
Danielle: "Skyler, don't hit mommy! That is not nice."
Jo: "Give her a warning and tell her if she does it again, she will go on the Naughty Chair. And behind you, you are taking the power back."
Skyler: "I don't want to go to-I don't wanna go on the chair. I don't wanna go to chair."
Danielle: "Then you don't hit mommy."
[Skyler hits Danielle again]
Danielle: "Skyler you can help mommy. You need to say sorry first. For help each earlier once you apologized. You can help me ".
Skyler: I m not sitting down.
Skyler: "No, I don't wanna go on the Naughty Chair!"
Danielle: What do you need to say to mommy?
Skyler: I don't want a time out.
Danielle: What do you need to say to mommy?
Skyler: I wanna get out of timeout.
Danielle: You can come out of timeout when you apologize What do you need to say to me?
Skyler: Sorry.
Danielle: Thank you. Give me a hug.
Frank (Interview): When Skyler admitted she was sorry, hallelujah! The chair worked!
Jo: I'm really really proud of you well done.
Announcer: Coming up on Supernanny...
Jo: Hello
Announcer: Jo whacks out
Jo: Is that hello or goodbye?
Announcer: Well Frank is caught in the middle.
Jo: Intimidating isn't it?
Announcer: When Supernanny returns.
Teaching Continues[]
Jo (Interview): This morning I arrived nice and early to start the rise and shine technique where I found Danielle and Frank both pretty dead to say at least. The rise and shine technique is to make sure that morning's run smooth and organized. The night before the children need to choose their clothes and the alarms needs to be set. In the morning the parent needs to pre - wake up their children is that to open up the door ajar and put a soft lamp on and then to gently stair the children to let them know it's time to get up.
[Alarm Clock ringing]
Jo (Interview): Once the children have woke up it's for them to take the responsibility in making sure they get themselves dressed, washed and ready to leave.
[…]
Announcer: Coming up on Supernanny...
[Alarm clock ringing]
Announcer: Skyler gets a wake up call.
Skyler: Noooooo!
Announcer: And dad failed his homework assignment.
Frank: Shut your mouth and start doing your homework.
Announcer: When Supernanny returns.
Family Test Run []
Jo (interview): I've left Danielle and Frank for a couple of days, to get on with implementing the techniques. And I'm gonna be watching them, so let's just see how they get on.
[Frank Patrick's alarm clock ringing]
Frank: Good morning. Alright! Getting up pal, good job.
Jo: Ah! The morning routine! It's gonna be a challenge.
[Skyler's alarm clock ringing]
Danielle: Come on baby, you hear it? She's not budging!
Jo: Frank! That's a big improvement.
Danielle: I would like you to put these on, and come out in the living room dressed, and make me really proud okay?
Danielle: Hurry! Hurry! Come on!
Jo: Excellent! Frank's off to school.
Danielle: Love you pal!
Frank: See you buddy!
Jo: But what about Skyler?
Frank: Come on, let's go.
Skyler: No.
Danielle: Do you want to get dressed? Or do you want to go to school in your pajamas?
Skyler: Mommy no!
Danielle: Okay, well I'm gonna put your clothes into your book bag.
Skyler: Nooooo!
Danielle: You gonna go to school in your pajamas then? Well, let's brush your teeth so that you don't have stinky breath at school.
Skyler: No! No! I don't wanna brush my teeth!
Danielle: Okay, so we’re going to school though, come on.
Skyler: I don’t want to go to school.
Jo: "A bit of a struggle, Skyler is going to school in her pajamas. Way to go, Danielle."
Danielle (Interview): Jo said you don't need to fight with her every morning just take her in her pajamas and eventually she'll learn yeah my mind was made up she was going to school pajamas are not.
Jo: Later on, Frank sat down with his dad to his homework.
Frank: "Shut your mouth and start doing your homework."
Frank: "Is that an A or a C or what letter is that? Fix it."
Frank Patrick: "No."
Frank: "I've never seen an A that looks like a C."
Frank Patrick: "But that's how I write."
Frank: "Start over."
Frank Patrick: "I don't know anything."
Frank: "No, I know what's right and what's wrong. Just do your homework."
Frank Patrick: "But that's what I always did."
Frank: "We're going to a bad spot with this whole homework thing."
Frank Patrick: "Yeah, I know how to write down an A."
Frank: "Frank, start your homework now."
Frank Patrick: "Then let me write my A."
Frank: " If you write your A, you're going to sit in the Naughty Chair."
Jo: Naughty chair? Why? For what?
Frank: "Erase it, Frank."
[Frank Patrick crying]
Frank: "Dude, don't cry over writing a word. This is ridiculous. You know what? Sit down."
[Frank Patrick sobbing] Why do I have to sit in there for?"
Frank: "You, you heard what I said, get in there."
[Frank Patrick still whining]
Frank: "You're in timeout...look at me. You're in timeout for giving me a tough time at homework and for not correcting your A. Giving me a problem on making an A. That's why you’re now in timeout."
[Frank Patrick crying]
Frank: "You're in timeout for 7 minutes, pal. And most off you're in timeout for, is because you're just being a little whiny brat. You're gonna break my chair? Don't break my chair, Frank. You're being a little whiny brat, Frank, over simple homework."
Jo: Dad, you're letting your anger get the better of you.
[Frank Patrick whining and crying]
Frank: "Stop crying now, you sound ridiculous, Frank. Shut your mouth".
Danielle: "Babe".
Frank: "I don't want to hear him whining."
Danielle: "You just can't, though. It is just that you can't."
Frank: "It stopped. It worked."
Frank: "You're in timeout for whining and for not listening about what I needed you to do with your homework. That's why you're in timeout. Now you can get up and don't whine."
Frank Patrick: "I wouldn't make my A right."
Frank: "So you continue to whine?"
Jo: Frank, you need a homework assignment. Communication 1 on 1.
Jo (interview): Frank, that was just so unfair, You and I need to talk, as soon as possible."
Parent Evaluation[]
Jo: Good to see you
Jo: (Interview) I left the part where i go back to the house to show the family the DVD footage. Because it shows the parents exactly the mistakes they have made and how going to amend it.
[…]
Jo: You spoke to him with no respect.
Frank: I was angry I don't except him whining.
Jo: You used language. That was abusive.
Frank: It was just in the situation.
Jo: Frank, Frank.
Frank: I was frustrated.
Jo: You need to check yourself Frank well I just saw go on there was distracted it was so negative you don't recognize the fact that he's whining because he's frustrated and he's was in a place right now that he finding difficult. Danielle what's you're intake on this?
Danielle: You're always like with him.
Frank: I want everything.
Danielle: He whines everyday and everyday that is how you handle his warning.
Jo: You had very bright funny sensitive child you see how will Frank respond to positive praise. Why on earth Frank would not want to give that to your child on a daily basis.
Frank: I don't want to be negative I don't want to in this room I knew I was gonna to have a moment like this maybe I needed to have a moment like this.
Jo: You're the parent Frank you can change it that is why that is why we are doing this.
Frank: The way I done it I don't like it I have intentions to change it's gonna be tough but you know I'm willing to do it.
Frank: (Interview) After seeing the DVD I realized that I do to take a more positive approach.
Jo: This is piece of an eye opener for you.
Frank: Sure has it's bad but i feel good gonna come about it I do,
Jo: So what we're going to do is reinforce some of the issues here so we can have back on track all right.
Frank: Okay.
Jo: Okay
Announcer: Coming up on Supernanny...
Frank: I do apologize for being angry at you.
Announcer: Dad and Frank checked their feelings. And when family comes to visit. Well they feel welcomed? When Supernanny returns.
Reinforcement[]
Jo: (Interview) The first thing i wanted to do was pulled dad aside and let him work on his relationship young Frank.