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- noun A remarkably capable and energetic
nanny .
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Examples
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In fact, a lot of cases involving apparently decent white middle-class couples being turned down have at root the fact that the potential parents have been deemed unable to appreciate how to raise a traumatised child for whom all the normal "supernanny" rules do not apply.
Parents who adopt abused children hampered by woeful lack of support Tracy McVeigh 2010
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Those who say that are full of crap I'll be nice w/ the language & need to stop watching "supernanny" and "out-of-control teens" talk shows and open their eyes.
Judge Mock: White Supremacist? Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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In fact, a lot of cases involving apparently decent white middle-class couples being turned down have at root the fact that the potential parents have been deemed unable to appreciate how to raise a traumatised child for whom all the normal "supernanny" rules do not apply.
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The only thing that it ever occurs to Democrats to do is "tax the rich" and try to turn government into some sort of enormous, intrusive, bureaucratic, supernanny.
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COSTELLO: Also, mom and dad can get advice on how to parent, from supernanny Jo Frost.
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The government clearly haven't been listening to that supernanny woman because by being so selective and religionist how else do I describe it?
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Advice to parents in recent years has been far too obsessed with ideas such as the naughty step and time-out, according to two psychologists who have written a book as an antidote to the supernanny approach.
Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008
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The government clearly haven't been listening to that supernanny woman because by being so selective and religionist how else do I describe it?
Religionist? 2008
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The question for the moment is whether Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke now qualifies as a "supernanny."'
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The question for the moment is whether Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke now qualifies as a 'supernanny.'
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