Real Families: Jo Frost's Approach to Adolescent Counseling

This week Jo is talking to a family where a mum has her baby taken off her by her own mum after having post-natal depression.

Family conflicts are usually kept behind closed doors – until now. Fresh from her role in Supernanny, Jo Frost brings her experience to a new talk show format.

Real Families brings you stories of modern day family life from around the world through the eyes of children, parents, and parenting experts.
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[mwall]

You can tell these two women are genuine and love each other very much. They really just need the tools to get through the pain of their pasts and move forward as a family. .

[stolin]

How did anyone expect the daughter to know how to be a Mum, if her Mum was on drugs most of her young life?

[kirstyi]

Paul is screaming for boundaries. Children act out in order to find out where the boundaries are. Happy children have daily routines and boundaries. Through this you can use positive reinforcement which is the best teacher in the world!. When they're labelled as good children they become proud of themselves and are loved by all!

[JaneAtwellRobinsonNY]

JoJo, you are incredible. Where other shows delve into the who did what to whom to shock the audience, you did just enough so everyone understands the issues. Then you KINDLY and with such grace helped this family build on the strengths we couldn't are they had at first. I hope this family managed well and little Paul has a happy childhood.

[lynnwilliams]

Even though the daughter is an adult and has a child she still craves what she didn’t get as a child herself. So in a way she still has a child’s mind when it comes to her mom. She wants what she didn’t get as a youngster. Hope things got better for them.

[betterbetty]

Neither one of them sound like they should be taking care of a child.

[herbertbennett]

these young ones who have kids - don't know what to do with him - pass him on - use him as a pawn - SO SAD

[mslgizzle]

I am wasting so much time binge-watching nanny Jo🤪

[zippyzipster]

OMG, what kind of role models are these two women to the little boy Paul 😟

[mlove.]

Very sad to watch the results that addiction has played in everyone's life. And I see the connection of the adult child of an addict being afraid of the same same behavior that her mother hit her, being the same as her son hitting love, abandonement, and punishment. I hope they all get the tools they need to progress. There is love and I hope they all realize that they are not alone.

[gracesmith]

For God's sake, give Amy a box of tissues. Her nose is running all over the damn place.

[marie-andreec]

The sound of that marker must have driven the sound tech crazy!

[suezq]

I do not get that title “taken off her” what does that mean?

[chocolatelover]

Never talks about the father/grandfather

[chocolatelover]

I know what it is like to have depression I almost killed myself when I was 14 maybe 15 years old!

[Figengumus]

Omg guys I had a neighbor like that she had a baby and I lived across I could see her windows opens sleeping with a man and toddler crying in other room as a mother it killer me every night not long after the toddler was taken off her and guess what she was with a married man then she fell pregnant again she was kicked out of the unit I don’t know what happened it’s so scary these things do happen what hurts me is there are couples out there try have babies and here there are some people like this that don’t look after there kids over man

[MmmKayHuuNay]

4 years?! Postnatal depression doesn't last that long wtf.