91Èȱ¬ House of Tiny Tearaways wants YOU
Are you a stressed parent? The popular parenting show The House of Tiny Tearaways, featuring leading child psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, is returning for a second series on 91Èȱ¬ television, and the team are keen to include more diversity in the programme. This could mean you, if you are a disabled parent or have disabled children. Or have a disabled piece of furniture (we made that last bit up, that'd be rubbish TV - well, unless it was a daytime show, in which case you could sell it or remake it or something).
The 91Èȱ¬ and Outline Productions would like to hear from families and single parents with children between the ages of 2 and 8 who wish to take part.
Whatever your parenting dilemmas or problems, The House of Tiny Tearaways may be able to help.
If you would like some more information about the show, please email: tinytearaways@outlineproductions.co.uk or call 020 7428 6037.
No commitment is needed at this stage, and all calls will be treated with strict confidence.
Comments
I got so obsessed with the last series of that show - I'm almost tempted to reproduce just so I can be on it. Or, hang on, what's the maximum age limit for the "tiny tearaways?" I do after all have an impairment that affects my stature.
I heard about your plans to make programmes about children disabled with Autism. As a parent of child disabled by Autism I would be deeply offended by this. Autistic children are not naughty children, nor is their behaviour caused by bad parenting. You may think it makes good television but it is disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves for even considering it. This demonstrates your ignorance of Autism and of how the parents and family of such children would feel about such a programme. Your programme is not an appropriate series for anything about autism. Please reconsider making such a programme.
I have been watching The House of Tiny Tearaways with Dr.Byron and I´m absolutly loving it.I can see it through my satellite all the way to Iceland.I have something I want to share with Dr.Byron and that is when she is helping with sleeping problems why not ask the parent to have a Teddy bear or something else with the kids in their beds.I did that with my 3 girls and their were never any problems.
10 may 2006
Best wishes
Birna Bragadóttir from Iceland.
If you've ever watched the program for any length of time, you soon realise none of the kids are really naughty - and the parents are not bad (after all, they want to go on the program, so they must care about their kids) but they are stressed have a lot of issues to deal with. Deal with these issues and the kids are happier. I imagine parenting an autistic child is very difficult and stressful, probably with a lot of guilty feelings along with misunderstanding from others. If this program can bring about a better understanding of an autistic child?s behavior I would be very interested to watch - especially the different parenting techniques they advise. I am registered blind and my 3.5 yr old Son has the same eye condition. I really struggle to be consistent with him because I cannot see his behavior. We cannot see each others body language or facial expressions, so crowded rooms and social situations are very difficult. I have had people suddenly explode at him for misbehaving in their house - saying they think I'm a bad mother and that they tried to indicate he was being a nuisance, but I didn't pick up on it. I would be very interested to see a psychologists take on this kind of issue, and see possible solutions for it. I am all for bringing disability of any kind into a mainstream program like this, to highlight the differences and show the world that there can be very positive, and even fun, ways to overcome issues like this.
hi, I would love to see an autistic child appear on house of tiny tearaways! . I have tried the normal time out ideas etc. but she doesn't understand them, so it would be interesting to see what they would do! I feel that my daughter has such a rough time anyway that I find it very hard to be tough with her...
I think this a really good idea. I've only started to watch this show recently and only saw about 3 episodes before it finished :(. I'm not a parent myself but I hope to be one day and I do have a disability which causes weakness and lack of co ordination in my left hand side and i really worry about how I would cope.