The Jeans Family

The Jeans Family is the first episode of Season 1 of the American Supernanny show.

In addition to this episode, the Jeans family members also appeared on the Season 1 Family Update Special.

Synopsis
In the premiere, Jo Frost visits David and Barbara Jeans and their three daughters. Supernanny will help the children's problem with authority and teach the family how to deal with their issues." - UpTV

Submission Reel
Jo finally arrives in the USA ready to help her 1st family, the Jeans. Their family includes parents Barbara (43) and David (51). They've been together for 20 years now and were really late bloomers who waited a long time before they had Kids. Their kids are Andra (4 1/2) and their twins Jessie & Leah (3).

Barbara explains that Andra tends to set the tone in the house quite a bit due to her being the oldest. She also explains Andra's very aggressive towards the twins and hits them a lot, which Barbara thinks it's scary. Then there's the twins-Jessie, who's been "taught" by Andra, (if she does something, then Jessie will copy it) and Leah, who cries a lot (possibly for attention). Barbara also states that it's very hard to take the girls anywhere in public, and David finally states they're looking for a lot from Supernanny because they need a lot.

Observation
When Jo enters the Jeans' house, the twins give her a big hug, which pleases Barbara. David says that he reads the kids to see if they like people or not. Jo Frost thinks that the friendly moment was actually a sigh of relief that she's here.

Soon, it's time for the girls to have breakfast; to Jo's surprise, Jessie ends up having chips for breakfast, and Leah didn't have anything. Getting the girls dressed was another tough problem when Jo, David, and Barbara were looking for shoes. Andra didn't help at all, since she isn't cooperative with the parents. Jo then quickly concludes that the household didn't have much organization.

Barbara then needs to take the girls shopping, much to her dismay since the girls always embarrass her in public. Sure enough, problems start right as the parents get the kids in the van. When David was taking things out of the car, Andra told him she saw her Care Bear Book, but David reminds her that she hasn't seen it for a month. She eventually kicked David which caused her not to get her Care Bears book back. She then started crying for Barbara to give it back, but instead of dealing with it, Barbara ignores Andra's cry for her the whole drive there, while Jessie and Leah just sit there also not caring about it. Jo was very annoyed by this very quickly, even being confused as to how Barbara was able to get into the car and drive with Andra's screaming.

As they get into the supermarket, Andra and Leah begin to argue over who will sit in the shopping cart with Jessie, so Barbara ends up squishing them in all together. Immediately after, chaos ensued with Andra running around everywhere, Jessie putting Leah in a headlock to stop her from driving, and all 3 of the girls yelling extremely loud. Andra even tried to bribe Barbara into buying her a donut, saying that she'll be "extra good" if she gets it for her, but Barbara doesn't fall for it. Throughout all of this, Jo is annoyed of the chaos the girls are causing, thinking it's crazy that Barbara somehow tolerates everything Andra throws at her, and states that Barbara should start taking control of them.

When they got home, Jo asked what was next, and that's what Barbara hopes Jo will help her with since she doesn't really know. Jo once again notes how there was no structure at all on that day, even questioning how Barbara doesn't know what to do, especially since she spends so many hours with them. In reality, nothing really happens, and the girls get so bored that they end up misbehaving for Barbara's attention. Andrea, however, causes the most chaos by hitting her sisters, such as chasing Leah, choking her, and putting her in a bucket while throwing balls at her.

David finally comes home and the girls have ravioli for dinner. Jo points out almost immediately that the children eat with their hands, even though they have cutlery. Dinner becomes a mad time; David was constantly on edge with Andra who kept running in and out the table, who even threw a temper tantrum all over a sippy cup she wanted. Jo was incredibly annoyed with her behavior, with the parents still somehow tolerating everything.

Parents Meeting
At the parents meeting, Jo confronts David and Barbara about many things, such as how the family has no structure, Barbara ignoring Andra's cry for donuts at the supermarket, Andra's tantrum at dinner, and how Jessie was learning from Andra.

Teaching
Jo arrives the Next Day to bring in the Show's 1st ever Routine, This is so Barbara can actually have structure while David is gone so that they don't get bored and misbehave to get her attention.

Next up Jo introduced The Show's 1st ever Discipline Technique, Not The Commonly used Naughty Chair, Step or Spot but instead, The Naughty Stool. Soon enough Andra began kicking off because Barbara wouldn't let her Choose what Jessie and Leah would wear. Surprisingly enough When Jo and Barbara took her to the Stool she sat there and did her discipline. Plus she even apologized which was good.

Next up Jo brings in The Shared Play Technique, so Jo brought in a Shopping Game for the Girls to play. However Andra began to kick off again, because She wasn't the Cashier and Jessie was. Barbara remained calm throughout but couldn't get Andra to listen, So Jo stepped in to Help and with that the Girls finally played nice for once.

Pop Culture

 * The Girls seem to be Huge fans of the Care Bears, with many stuff off them, here are all of them that you can find:
 * Andra was seen playing with a Cheer Bear Plushie when she met Jo Frost.
 * A Big Plush of Bedtime Was seen when Shared Play was introduced in this episode.
 * Andra whined when David took her Care Bears Book away from Andra. It is unknown which book it was.
 * A Cartoon Cartoons Coloring Book was seen in one Scene
 * The show the girls were seen watching during the observation was Caillou. It is possible how Caillou is responsible for how Andra acts as around that Time Parents began to complain that their kids were starting to act like him.
 * The Barbie doll was seen in the Supermarket.
 * Other things included A Jimmy Neutron Coloring Book,
 * A Power Rangers Coloring Book,
 * A Shark Tale Coloring Book,
 * and Crayola Crayons.
 * And An M&M's Coloring Book

Behind The Scenes
This episode was filmed on November 2004.

Transcript
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