Driving Mum and Dad Mad

Description: Jamie McLeod: 7 year old Jamie's language is X-rated and he has a terrifying obsession with weapons and knives. He ... more

Driving Mum and Dad Mad ... won’t do anything he doesn’t want to. He watches lots of horror films and is heavily influenced by them – acting out scenes and quoting one-liners. Jamie owns three pellet guns which he uses as props to act out scenes and occasionally uses his sister Kensie, 8, as his target. He sometimes grabs weapons from the kitchen and wields them at his mum. Christine has tried pretty much everything in the past to try and curb Jamie’s behaviour – but nothing has ever worked. She recently resorted to moving house and schools in the hope that mixing with new children might have an impact on him.

Newest Review: ... to take control and guide them, through time out, when they go wrong. Claire operates Triple P to encourage and aid the parents in this series to learn new strategies for both themselves and their children. Basically this means that over the course of the five programmes she will give the parents a new techniques or a new lesson to try for the following week and each new lesson is the next ... more

... step in the Triple P plan. Programme one is really just an introduction to the families and an insight into what drove them to attend such a course on national TV. I can honestly say that through watching numerous kinds of these programmes I have s...more

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Driving Mum and Dad Mad: Corkscrews and Swear Words in Abundance. (1389 words)
by - written on 22/08/06 (Very useful, 678 readings)
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“Driving Mum and Dad Mad”, is the latest in a long line of TV programmes that claim to make your naughty kids into little angels over the course of a few weeks. What makes this programme different for me is that the professional who runs the courses in parenting, Claire Halsey, never actually meets the kids and never witnesses first hand what sets them off. She watches video footage of the naughty kids and then over the course of 8 weeks she guides the families with verbal and written instructions on techniques and philosophies to make them better behaved and on the whole much easier kids to live with. Claire Halsey is a consultant clinical psychologist for ... Read the complete review

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