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The Haines Family

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The Haines Family is the seventh episode of Season 3 of the American Supernanny show.

Episode summary[]

Haines-Family

Supernanny teaching the Haines

Jo visits the Haines Family in Abrams, Wisconsin where Suzanne (37) and Shane (35) have 2 children. 10-year-old Seth and 4-year-old Sean.

Sean may be quiet, shy and a good boy at school, but he is the dictator at home. He throws temper tantrums, swears and lashes out at his parents and his brother.

Seth isn't as bad as Sean, but he talks back and antagonizes his parents in order to get their attention.

Can Jo help get the Haines family to be livelier? Can she help Suzanne & Shane control the boys' behavior?

Recap[]

Observation[]

Jo is stunned by how lifeless and boring Shane and Suzanne are. When Shane gets home from work, he lies down on the couch and takes a nap. Suzanne takes Sean to pre-school and Jo ask his pre-school teacher about his socialization with other children and then met Seth from class. Jo observes that the boys are running around, cranky, and acting out due to sheer boredom. As the only discipline they used in this episode, the parents hold Seth's arms, threaten to take away his toy satellite and even threw him to his own bed (as similar to what happened to the footage). Jo really didn't like this kind of parenting.

Parents Meeting[]

Jo tells Shane and Suzanne that they need to get more life into the house because "Right now, you're flatlining."

Teaching[]

Jo sets up the House Rules. She also has Shane and Suzanne practice being fun and goofy. She and the boys go outside and peek in the windows at the parents running around the house, playing tag and riding in a wagon. Seth reports that he never saw his parents act like that before and he never laughed so much in his life. Jo and the boys come in. Shane and Suzanne treat them to a pantomime, using the wagon as a stage for a Goofy doll Suzanne plays with. Jo says that the parents shouldn't start looking for work in the entertainment field, but it brought some fun and life into the house, which was the point.

Suzanne sets up a playdate for Sean with three boys. Jo says this will be good for Sean, because he can't learn how to socialize and interact with other children when he is just alone with Suzanne in the house during the day. Sean and the boys start playing at Sean's gigantic train table. Jo coaches Suzanne into leading Sean being involved with the boys and having the boys share the trains, so Sean can interact with them. Sean whispers to the boys that he made cookies and then serves them cookies. Jo and Suzanne are impressed by how talkative and social Sean has become after just one playdate. "Thank you for coming over!" he says as the playdate ends.

Parent Evaluation[]

Seth and Sean were playing outside, he takes off his shoes and this made him swore accidentally. Seth told Dad that Sean swore and Dad reason with him, very well.

During the car journey, Seth was bullying Sean by pulling, hitting and slapping. Sean yelled to Mom and Seth covered up the truth, but Mom couldn't be bothered to deal with it.

Reinforcement[]

Suzanne sits with Seth and shows him DVD footage of him bullying Sean on a car ride. Jo drives Seth and Shane to the Green Bay Packers stadium to play ball and have fun. Jo also has Shane show Sean how to play drums.

Credits[]

The family and Jo is having a snow fight and playing in the snow together.

Trivia/Pop Culture[]

  • Multiple Thomas & Friends merchandise is scattered throughout the episode. When Sean is under the couch being told to come out, Thomas appears next to him, whilst Duck, Boco, Duke, Chinese Dragon, and Rusty are beings held by Sean. When the boys are playing you can see that one of their trains, they were playing with is Percy. Finally, the train table that one of the boys play and share the trains with is the Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway train table.
  • This was the first episode to take place in Wisconsin.

Behind the Scenes[]

  • This episode was filmed in December 2006, one month before the air date.

Family Members[]

Person Age Relation to Family
Suzanne Haines 37 (born August 14, 1968) Mother
Shane Haines 35 (born April 7, 1970) Father
Seth Haines 10 (born 1996) Son
Sean Haines 4 (born June 25, 2002)

Gallery[]

External Links[]

Season 3
The Bowersock Family • The Weinstein Family • The Fager Family • The Swanson Family • The Mihalik Family • The Smith Family • The Haines Family • The Nitti Family • The Bruno Family • The McAfee Family • The Goins Family • The Williams Family • The Walker Family • The Cantoni Family • The Amouri Family
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