The Porter Family/Transcript

Opening
Madison: I'm not going to give up!

Narrator: The Porter Family are being held to ransom, by their nine-year-old daughter.

Madison: Get a-WAY!

Narrator: Her tantrums just like a toddler.

[Madison crying]

Madison: Get off!

Narrator: And lays down the law.

Madison: I want to do I want!

Hayley: Go in there.

Madison: NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Hayley: Now.

Narrator: Princess Madison rules with a heavy hand. With both parents treading on eggshells.

Hayley: Why are you doing this?

Narrator: Can Supernanny restore order?

Jo: A nine-year-old having a temper tantrum because you told her no? TOUGH!

Narrator: Or this one battle of the wills that can't be won?

Jo: Trust me Maddie, I am NOT joking.

Madison: I'm not going to give up!

Meet The Family
Narrator: Meet The Porter Family from Somerset. Mum, Hayley, Dad Merrill and their 2 children. 9 year old Madison and 7 year old Harry.

Parent Meeting
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Jo: Me I've sitting talking to Mary Shelley you already created Frankinstein

Teaching
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Narrator: After 30 minutes of toing and froing, silent desends. Maddie's locked herself in the bathroom.

Jo: This is her losing control?

Hayley: Yes.

Jo: This is Madison losing control. All of a sudden her parents taking charge so now she needs to elevate that temper and come even bigger that what she ever came. That's what we're seeing.

Hayley: Still locked herself in the bathroom.

Jo: As mean of control.

Hayley: Yeah.

Jo: Madison? I'm gonna count 3. If the door is not open by the time I count 3. I will be coming to the bathroom I will be taking into your bedroom and you will be staying there for the night. Trust me Maddie, I am NOT joking. 1, 2, 3.

[Door opens]

Jo: Come here please. Look at me. Look at me. Sit down. I'd like to see your face please. I'd like to see your face put your hair above your face like I've got here. The fact that you think is okay to hit your parents is beyond me. It's not acceptable at all to hit anybody. I'm really not happy with your behavior. Because I know how you can behave. Nobody is making you or forcing you to hit your mother and your father. you are going to accept that when mum and dad say no, no is no. And I don't care how angry you get how much you scream it's not going to change the answer. If is no it's no. No is final there is no persuasion. Do you hear what I'm saying? Look at me please. I'm being serious. Now your mother and father asked you to go in the reflection room. I'd like to take yourself downstairs I want you to go straight into the reflection room and you'll do your 9 minutes. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Madison: Yes.

Jo: Then take yourself downstairs and go do your timeout.

Narrator: 9 minutes of reflection time later.

Hayley: What do you have to say Madison?

Madison: I'm sorry.

Hayley: Right. Now. Let's have a kiss and a cuddle.

Family Test Run
Maddison: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA DO?!

Merrill: [to Hayley] Y'know, you spent too bloody long down here, when you should be up there, settling her down.

Hayley: Merrill, that's not right.

Merrill: There's a routine, Hayley. To settling the kids down.

Hayley: Don't have a go at me, because I was downstairs, having a cup of tea.

Merrill: You know she likes her cuddles.

Hayley: [stammers] Well, she's, uh... It can't happen like that. Sometimes it can't happen like that.

Merrill: It can happen like that, Hayley, because you shouldn't be down there a [BLEEP] half hour.

Hayley: Don't swear at me.

Maddison: I WANT MY TEDDY BEAR!!

Reinforcement
Jo: [to Hayley and Merrill] Now, we're going to take a look at anger.