Super Nanny.
Tonight’s episode hit close to home. It was a single dad with 4 children. He got a divorce 2 years ago, and we don’t know that back story. The youngest is 3. He has 3 girls. The oldest is around 9. They live in Alaska. That’s the picture.
He was having lots of issues with the kids. They were out of hand. The house was a mess. He was almost a shell of a man. The kids just ran over him. I then started realizing that he had given up. The divorce had somehow turned him off. He was sleeping on the floor in his son’s room. His bedroom was a junk room. he said he did that because he was “afraid to be alone”. The separation really turned him off. He didn’t know how to function.
I have seen it in other people. I saw it in me. I had to be ok being by myself. I had to become ok with me. I can’t imagine doing that with 4 young children. It seems that the oldest girl was taking the absence of her mom out on the dad. I wouldn’t know how to deal with that, and find myself.
It really seemed that the advice revolved around him finding his footing. He couldn’t do anything with his relationship with his children until then, especially his oldest. That’s what I found. Fix yourself. Be happy in your own skin.
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