A Fathers Worst Nightmare!
A family dealing with tragedy...
On an episode of Nanny 911, there was a dad’s nightmare (aired May 16, 2005). It was difficult to watch. Why? In case you did not see the episode or just don’t watch the show, it was about a family who lost their father a year ago because of a car accident. It was a mom trying to deal with a daughter and a son. It was clear the family was still in pain. The kids were just horrible to their mother it was unbelievable.
To make a long story short, Nanny Deb (our favorite at DaddyDaily) was tasked to help the family and she comes in and saves the day. How does she turn the children from obviously heart broken and damaged by their fathers’ death into manageable kids? I don’t know and the show really does not give any techniques on how to achieve this task. Sure, Nanny Deb tell the mom you have to gain control and show you’re the boss, but you don’t see how to get that accomplished. My wife and I sat there saying talk is cheap; show us how to get the kids under control. At the end of the show, I was still asking how.
We’ve talked about this show before and I’m a fan, but the show is starting to loose it’s substance. The first 12 minutes of the show just repeated itself. “Nanny Central” has to go along with the terrible head nanny Lillian (I think is her name). The next 30 minutes is the observation and the summary of what needs to be done. There was about 9 minutes left in the hour (of which you get approximately 5 minutes of commercials) and you did not see how the family’s problems were going to get solved. Of course by 8:49 EST all was well and the family was on the road to recovery.
Then there was the silly trip they give to the family at the end of the show. They should have given them free therapy for the mom and kids to help work through the issues of the fathers passing.
Anyway, the show had such promise and opportunity to help families out there, but seems to come up short on the substance. I loved the concept, but the execution on this one seems off.
Posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm.
Filed under Daddy Blog, Daddy STRESS.
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