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Whoever invented the word ‘three-nagers’, was clearly speaking from bitter experience - they were describing three year olds with the rebellious spirit of a teenager, but none of the reasoning skills!

In this series, families with troublesome children aged one to five, are invited into a purpose-built Big Brother-style house, where they will undergo six intensive days of mentoring, toddler training, and soul-searching.

The House of Tiny Tearaways challenges these testing members of society head-on by placing them and their tortured parents into the house for 24/7 observation and parenting training. The problems tackled range from lack of sleep, refusal to eat, to full-on tantrums. Guiding parents is clinical psychologist Dr. Tanya Byron from Little Angels.

Loud, rowdy, boisterous, and ultimately life-affirming television.

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Posted by Kate1446 • Report

please tell me where i can watch this show?!?!?!?!????

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How can I watch this show??? I really want to but I can't find it online or on foxtel?? HELP!

Posted by Catherine • Report

Watching an episode now of tanty throwing 3/4 year olds at the dinner table. The professional has requested healthier food smaller portions for an overweight child,and another child has sleep issues HOWEVER all of these kids are drinking what they have referred to as "pop" and looks like Coca Cola.... Yes I am sure a kid will be healthier and sleep better after a pre-bed drink of caffeine???

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Children the age that Tanya mostly takes in are to young to be able to cognatively perform what you are suggesting. Children progess through set stages in moral development the beginning of which is "being told what is right or wrong and being punished and rewarded accordingly by a close authority figure, usually a parent to determine what is morially right". As a child's frontal lobe developes, they progress to stages of determining what is morally. What your saying is roughly correct but not for the most of the clients taken on in the house. Tanya does take in older cliends (up to eight years of age is what I have seen) and for these children she adopts a different style of nurturing.