This woman in the photo is not the Supernanny Spanish we all remember but Sylvie Jenaly, the protagonist of the program in France, which apparently has exerted as a negative influence on a couple who came to physically mistreat your 16 month old baby to the point of being arrested.
The baby had bruises and clear signs of violence
The events occurred in Perigueux, in the southwest of France, where as we read in Ideal, the baby arrived at the nursery school with bruises and with clear signs that he had been a victim of domestic violence.
The couple, a 20-year-old girl and he, 23, were arrested on charges of child abuse. That was when they surprised with their statements, explaining that all they did was try to educate their son based on what they had learned on television.
Apparently, they assured that to correct their son's behavior they had decided to follow the advice of the SupernannyThey considered it the best way to educate their son.
Criticisms of the French Supernanny
Interestingly, a couple of weeks ago we discovered in El Periódico that a collection of signatures had begun in France to try to end the program (the UN also criticized the program in 2008 and seen the picture, it seems that it did not get much).
The reason for the complaints is twofold: on the one hand, avoid showing as valid educational methods based on the submission of children through the educational violenceand on the other hand, denounce the violation of children's rights, which appear on television without hiding their identity in any way, in situations that could be considered degrading.
And it makes no sense that the law protects the minors of their parents and adults, that we are prohibited (with very good criteria) to upload photos of our children that may threaten their honor or privacy, and then allow such a program whose protagonists are minors in their privacy that, in many cases, are nothing more than the victims of an education that has not turned out to be effective (says a phrase that "The behavior of a child says more of his parents and teachers than of the child himself ").
Of course, these families need help, it seems more than obvious, but the others we do not have to be spectators of their dysfunctional relationship or the solutions exercised. And less if the methods seek the submission of the child with techniques that are increasingly obsolete (years ago authoritarianism was overcome).
But why did they hit a 16 month old baby?
I've been watching a video of the French Supernanny and I don't see physical violence (if so, I'm sure the program would have been retired a long time ago):
So, either the parents are making it up, or they haven't understood the story. Perhaps the problem, as I say, is that in these programs Children are urged to do at all times what parents want them to do, that is, viewers are led to believe that children have to obey blindly at all times to, if it does not happen, go on to exercise methods of extinguishing the complaint.
It would be something like: Force him to do what you want him to do, whenever you want him to do it. If he does not, he is considered to have bad behavior, and then the child should be punished in the chair to stop complaining about our new way of educating.
Perhaps these parents tried to do it with their baby and, seeing that they did not go well (because a 16-month-old baby is impossible to obey their parents), they chose to be more "traditional" and end up using physical punishment.
Be that as it may, they will soon be judged for their actions, and although I do not believe that their reasons serve as mitigating, it is clear that it will fan the debate about the Supernanny program, which for so many years has led the world's parents to believe that children should remain educated based on punishments and awards.
