The Young Family (U.S. Season 2)

(Warning! This page is about the Season 2 episode with the same name, If you were looking for the Season 7 episode, click here or if you were looking for the UK episode, click here) The Young Family is the fourteenth episode of Season 2 of the American Supernanny show.

Episode Summary
Jo meets the Young family in Sarasota, Florida, where parents Sherman (38) and Joelle Young (37) work opposite job shifts with Dad watching the three kids during the day and then dropping them off with Joelle before leaving for work for the evening.

Five-year-old Shermie is very aggressive towards his mother, 13 year-old-brother Dylan, and 3-year-old-Sister Shelby. They also refuse to stay out of Dylan's room. They have the biggest tendency to climb on walls and shelves.

Meanwhile three year old (almost four), only girl, and the youngest child, Shelby is stubborn, dramatic and cries a lot. Worryingly for Sherman and Joelle, Shelby is starting to pick up some of Shermie's wall climbing and aggressive behavior. When Shelby gets bored after while during a board game she'll throw it away.

Thirteen-year-old big brother Dylan feels like he's forced to spend time with his younger siblings and wants his time alone & also with his parents. He just locks his bedroom door so that his siblings especially Shermie Jr. can't get in his bedroom.

Sherman is completely clueless when it comes to playing with his kids while Joelle yells at the kids which only makes them ignore and disrespect her more. Can Jo help the Young family out?

Submission Reel
In Sarasota Florida, Jo gets a call from the Young Family, Joelle (37) and Sherman Sr. (38), have three Kids Dylan (13), Sherman Jr. (Shermie) (5), and Shelby (3).

Sherman and Joelle both work different time schedules, so during the day, Sherman has the Kids and at night, he hands the kids of to Joelle. While Sherman is driving, dealing with the kids is a nightmare.

Shermie tends to be the most aggressive as he constantly hits, punches, kicks, and he also tells Joelle he hates her. Shermie tends to lash out on many people, mainly Shelby, as he hits her, and even on a few occasions he has actually gone as far as choking her. "That is one angry little boy" Jo states.

As for Shelby, she can be very dramatic even over the slightest things. She's also stubborn and cries a lot, Board Games aren't safe either as if your playing one with her, if she gets Bored she's gonna throw it away. Worse ever since she was seven-months-old, she began getting into some of Shermie's wall climbing habits as he does that all the time.

One of Joelle's main problems with Dylan is that he's not patience and he likes to go in his room a lot. "Shermie wants to be with me all the time, but I like to have my alone time away from everyone," Dylan explains.

Sherman says that he and Joelle need Jo's Help as if they continue yelling and screaming at the kids to do orders nothing will change at all. "Oh yes, you do need my help, I'm on my way," Jo explains shutting her portable DVD player off.

Observation
When Jo Arrives she finds Shermie and Shelby under a table just watching her, Jo found it funny as they were doing what she does when she meets the family. It was daytime, so it was Sherman's turn to take care of the kids, but they were left to be bored. To Jo, Sherman was in his own world while on his computer. Meanwhile, Shermie and Shelby play with trains and race them but Shelby began to cry because Shermie was beating her, This Caused Sherman to come in and the kids began wanting to play with him. But instead, Sherman said "You can do it", as he's clueless when playing with the Kids. Shermie then knocked a train over leading to a confusing Timeout, Jo believes she wasn't the only one confused as to her, discipline seems to make it up as you go along.

Jo then sees Shelby climbing, Jo points out how they don't listen to Sherman when he tells them to stop, Jo does ask if anything is challenging while taking care of the kids. "Joelle can sit down with the kids and colour with them, I'm not real big on that" Sherman explains, Jo didn't know what Sherman meant by that but she could tell that keeping the kids occupied is hard.

Later Joelle had to go home, so she and Sherman switched out. Jo found it crazy as The Parents can't talk. She just cant believe this happens every day. When they got back home, Jo met Dylan, but it wasn't long till chaos ensued. Shermie was trying desperately to get in Dylan's Room but he didn't want him in, eventually leading to Joelle yelling at him.

As Shermie doesn't respect Dylan's privacy, Jo was nice enough to have a conversation with Dylan. During the conversation. Dylan brings up the fact that to him, Shermie and Shelby cut out of Family Time. Meanwhile outside Joelle is making empty discipline threats to the kids. When Jo finished the conversation with Dylan she found out that Shelby drew Shermie a lovely picture, however he didn't like it and shockingly ripped up the Picture, According to Joelle that's so typical of Shermie as he does it knowing he'll hurt Shelby's Feelings. Joelle threats Shermie with a Spanking but instead puts him in his Room and yells to him about how he doesn't need to treat her like this, then leading to her locking the Door on Shermie. When that happens he rudely tells Jo to get out and bangs on the door to annoy Joelle.

Dinner comes around but Jo finds out that the family are really quiet and don't usually talk with each other and that Shelby has her own little table to watch the TV.

Parents Meeting
At the Parents Meeting, Jo confronts Joelle and Sherman about their empty Threats and how they get home they can't function with the kids right.

Teaching
Teaching starts of as usual with Jo bringing in her Casual Family Routine and brings in a New Technique where if Shermie and Shelby do bad things they'll lose Video Game and TV Time.

Afterwards Jo brought in The No Go Zone technique, due to the fact Shermie and Shelby climb everywhere, and surprisingly enough it worked. Shermie even tested it out to see if the red sign is there because he wanted to go into Dylan's Room.

Afterwards Shermie refused to listen to Joelle from getting out from under the Table, and to get rid of Joelle's Empty threats Jo brought in The Naughty Corner but when Joelle took Shermie there he ran out and eventually climbed up a Tree. During the Interview Shermie says he can climb trees fast cause he's a Monkey. He eventually came down after hearing he'll lose his Video Game Time and sat in the Corner.

Jo decides to Next get Sherman more active with The Kids, as when he's home he's just Usually On the Computer, Jo decides to take him and the Kids to The Park to spend some Quality Time Together, Sherman Praises The Kids for their Attempts at The Equipment there, after a While We get To this Episodes most iconic Part, Jo takes Sherman and The Kids up a Hill and Gets Sherman to Roll Down it.

Once They Get Home Jo notes how Joelle and Sherman never Talk when They Switch, So Jo brings Up The Idea to have Sherman use an Audio Recording to Tell Joelle how his Day was, When The Switch Happens Sherman hands it To Joelle and is Surprised to Hear how the Day went.

Jo decides to bring up how The Family Are extremely Quiet at Dinner Time, So she decides to bring In The Talking Stick, Shelby actually asks Jo what The Talking Stick is and Jo says its something Secret, At Dinner Joelle Hands Dylan The Talking Stick, But Shermie questions The Fact that he doesnt have it, Joelle Tells Shermie he can have it Next Time, Dylan talks about a Movie he watched at School.

Before Jo leaves she Gives The Parents a Homework Assinement to spend some Quality Time with Dylan, They agree on It and Jo leaves for The Test Run.

Family Test Run
The Test Run Opens up with Joelle and Sherman following on with Jo’s Homework assignment, They Challenge Dylan to a Game of Bowling and The Three of them have a good Time.

Whilst Sherman has The Kids he’s outside with Dylan and Shermie however a Conflict begins to rise up as Dylan had apparently called Shermie a Baby, Shermie then continues annoying Dylan much to his disappointment.

We Finally cut to Joelle watching Shermie and Shelby playing a Game, However during it Shelby punched Shermie which made him cry, Joelle took Shelby to The Naughty Corner and Shelby was not Backing down. She got of The Naughty Corner multiple Times, Showed her Behind on Live TV (Albeit Blurred out) and when Things coudnt get worse she started to throw Books, And Joelle didn’t do anything about it aside from Having Shelby lose Her Game and TV Time. In The DVD Meeting Jo explains that would Joelle should’ve done was remove Shelby from The Naughty Corner and put her in another one.

Reinforcement
Jo thinks Dylan should talk with Sherman and Joelle about how He feels Obligated of taking care of Shermie and Shelby. They both agree they want to make Dylan’s Life a bit easier.

Once that’s done with it was time for The Family to have Dinner (It’s unknown who received The Talking Stick) And everyone was ready except Shelby who began to cry because she didn’t like where she sat. Joelle took her to The Naughty Corner and yet again Shelby began throwing The Books. This Time Joelle did do what Jo told her to do in The DVD Meeting, which was removing Shelby from The First Naughty Corner and putting her in another one. When her first timeout Shelby didn’t apologise however in her 2nd she did. And with this Jo goes of to Help Her Next Family.

Transcript
The Young Family (U.S. Season 2) (Transcript)

Family members

 * Sherman Young Sr., 38
 * Joelle Young, 37
 * Dylan, 13 (born September 20, 1992)
 * Sherman Jr. “Shermie”, 5 (born July 20, 2000)
 * Shelby, 3 3/4 (born February 21, 2002)

Reddit Questionnaire
Dylan answered several questions on Reddit. The main post was created on January 20, 2013. He stated that the reason Joelle and Sherman went on Supernanny was the loss of control over the household, his parents not knowing what to do and the need for outside help. When Joelle wrote to the production company asking for help, the company provided her with a filming crew and asked her to film how things normally went in the house. Joelle sent the footage back to the company and some time after, a preliminary film crew had arrived to put masking tape over parts of the house. Filming had lasted about two weeks. Jo slept at the Ritz Carlton Hotel during her time with his family. Dylan wasn't too keen with the Naughty Corner, but he felt timeouts and leaving his siblings alone were better than aggression and yelling. He stated his last name wasn't "Young" for legal reasons. Dylan was not paid, but Joelle and Sherman were. He did not know how much. Dylan felt that his family could have gotten help from somewhere other than National Television. Dylan stated that Sherman had bipolar Syndrome. At the time of the questionnaire, Dylan said he had his own place.

Behind The Scenes
This episode was filmed in February 2006, one month prior to the air date.

Trivia
In The Submission Reel, The Scene where Jo watches Shelby climb The Wall in The Observation is used (Jo can be seen wearing her Purple Jacket in The Scene, Making it clear It was taken when Jo was at The House.)