Nanny 911

Ever see Nanny 911? It's one of my most favourite TV shows lately...broadcasted in Mtero TV every Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. It taught many useful lessons about parenting and how to make your children to be discipline. Overall, this show taught the lesson of love towards children...children raised with love would surprisingly follow the pattern. Children raised with hatred would react the same way they were taught to. They imitated what they saw and heard. So it basically showed that children should be treated with love, care, discipline, respect and honor.

For example, last Sunday, parent with two children of four and two and a half were frustrated with their uncontrolled behaviors. They were still using sippy cups and pacifier (doddies). When their mother wanted to take those dodies away, they went crazzy with all the kicking and biting. The mother was far too lenient with the children. She almost was in total submission with her kids because she assumed that what a mother should do. In return, she failed to gain respect from her babies. When they did not get what they wanted, they would cry and scream loudly, kicked, and bite her. While the father, being a navy soldier, treated his children like little soldiers thus also failed to gain respect except fear.

The nanny was invited to help. Then, she showed them how to be a good parent and how to deal with the children. First rule was set up: no bitting and kicking. All must obey this rule. Mother should enact discipline in the house by introducing rewards and punishment. If they were misbehaved, they would get consequences for their act, and vice versa. Love could be expressed altogether with discipline. Father must leave his 'little soldiers' treatment and should spend some times with the kids...to talk and to show them that he loved them. The second rule was to get th esippy cups and pacifiers away as they were inapropriate to use them.

It was showed how hard the nights for both parents and kids with no sippy cups and doddies. The children were screaming and crying loudly begging to get them back. The mother almost gave up...for her to hear them scream and cry was unbearable. The Nanny was strict and stern. It was time for the kids to grow up...it would be harder to get rid of those things if they grew older...so the plan went on.

Surprisingly, it's working. The second night, the kids fell asleep without the pacifiers and doddies. They biting and kicking stopped. The mother and father succeded in showing their children that every action came with consequences. The mother got their respect as well as their love. All ended well.

Parenting is not taken for granted. It needs sufficient knowledge to achieve good parenting. To spoil the chil too much will give misleading messege. To punish them is even sending wrong message if it is not done correctly. But one thing for sure, parenting is the nature of every parent in this world. and it is looked forward dearly.