i dont watch mtv

honestly this show wouldnt exist if more parents took responsibility for their childs actions before it got to this point. its a series of little things. one bad action becomes a behavior which leads to a series of other bad behaviors and nowhere in this does the parent sit down and say i've had enough. then, your out of control teen needs a life lesson so you ship them off. where is parental responsiblity these days? never on this show do you see a parent saying i should have stopped this before it got started.

I saw the preview for it last week, but not the show. It looked like the host family was getting stomped.  Our kids have a few certain things that they're expected to do; taking their own dishes to the sink, doing their laundry and keeping their room clean. Other things are done to earn spending money -- this weekend they were each give three things to do in order to earn $15 to go Christmas shopping for the other sibling. We've never used them as punishment*...that strikes me as so strange...

* Well, if you make a mess in a temper tantrum, you will be cleaning it up...but I don't count that as punishment so much as personal responsibility.

I have had those same thoughts about the parents. I never had a set list of chores growing up, but when I was asked to do something or told I did it without too much argument and within a reasonable amount of time. None of the parents seem that over the top, and as bad of a teenager as I was, I was an angel compared to these girls.
I was the youngest, and my parents thought they had seen it all from my sisters, lol, I went above and beyond what they did, just on a different level then they did, so my parents didn't know what to do with me. I was a wild child. Okay, thinking back, maybe I was as bad as these girls, but I guess I knew when to push my parents and through it all I respected my parents, just not many other adults. I was pretty bad.

The kids don't just one day change from sweet, innocent child to unruly teen.  My kids have been taught respect from day one and I have never yet been embarrased by their behavior or ashamed of them, even when they are not with me I can trust them to behave properly. 

These so-called parents needed to set boundaries with their kids when they were much younger.

@LostPage@xanga - its on MTV & CMT.

I've definitely seen the show. I never understood why they were called World's Strictest Parents, either. But, I think it has something to do with the types of kids that are put on the show. To them, those are the strictest of the strict. Because, their own parents are doormats.

These kids have been told no, they just have parents who don't follow it up with anything. Or do so half-assedly.

It baffles me how these kids can spend one or two weeks at the house of another family and seem to get "straightened out" while their parents couldn't do it in how many  years?

I think its just an excuse for these parents to make a huge mess with their kids, and then have other people clean it up for them. It just makes me roll my eyes, but at the same time the show itself is amusing. I have to say that it does make me smirk at least a little bit when these smart-mouthed kids think they're so awesomely smart and clever and they're going to pull one over on these host parents and then find out they've been outsmarted before they knew what the hell was going on.

What irritates me is sometimes at the end, you have these parents who won't listen to the host parents (who just straightened out the mess they had made with their kids) when they give advice at the end of the show to the real parents. The real parents balk and say that that isn't right or fair. But, they were the ones that couldn't handle their kids in the first place, you would think that they'd give more credence to the two people who managed to straighten out their kids. Which leads me to believe those kids are gonna go right back to the way they were before.

I have to say that I love watching these types of shows (World's Strictest Parents, Supernanny, etc). They talk a lot about personal responsibility, respect for your elders, and other morals that I have grown up with as a kid. To me, it's nothing new because it's what's expected of me.

But as a teacher who works with infants to kindergateners in my center, I see both childern who know how to truly listen to our words and are respectful (basically, how I was raised) and childern who clearly run the family at home.

Honestly, I feel really sad for these childern, teenagers and the parents who let their kids get away with everything. In my experience, these kids basically get away with almost anything while their parents do almost everything to cater to the children. And that's not right. Life isn't fair. No one gets their way all of the time.

And at my center, the children who are allowed to get their way at home, they think that they can do this behavior at school. They tend to act out and butt heads a lot with just every one of their teachers, past and present. Some don't always do this, but it's in the majority of the group. Sometimes you can talk to these children and they'll understand why the rules are there and why we're the teachers, not the children.

For the ones that don't listen, well..... Let's just say that their teachers talk to the parents every day or every other day about trying to improve behavior that's not acceptable.

I have to say that I feel really bad for these children. Children need structure and they don't get it at home. It could mean years of trouble for parents and years of bad behavior from the kids into their older years if it doesn't get corrected.

BUT, as a teacher, I also am here to help the parents when they ask how to improve the behavoir. While I don't have all of the answers or all of the solutions, I am here to be a support for the parents. My hope for these children/teenagers is that they see the wrong in this type of behavior and change it.

Because, honestly, I don't want to be in a nursing home (if I need it) and have those children as the adults who take care of me. If that happens, I will end up being the crazy lady who gives everybody shit for the littlest things. :)

Parents like that aren't strict. Then again, it is MTV.

The episode I saw had dick parents. The kids just liked to smoke, and that made them problem children. I don't know why anyone watches either of those channels though

I've watched a few episodes, simply for amusement.  It really is about how the biological parents aren't strict enough.  I had a similar type of mother-- one day she would want to be strict, and then next I was allowed to freely do whatever I wanted.  It made no sense, and it was very confusing.  I think I turned out okay though, given what I had.

Being that it is TV, I'm sure a good part of it is stretched to make good TV.

my dad and I watched it once.

he laughed at how not strict it was. >->'