When children cry at home, it is difficult to get a little calm. Fortunately, Super Nanny has a tip that works every time. It reveals it exclusively to us.
In many families, intense noise and cries are part of everyday life. Between the children who play, the screens lit in the background, the arguments that burst, and the youngest who cry out for no apparent reason, the decibels climb quickly. Faced with this ambient din, many parents quickly feel exceeded. They repeat, raise their voice, get angry … But nothing helps: their words seem to be lost in the general tumult. By dint of living in constant noise, it can generate some frustration, but also nervous fatigue. But then, how can you be heard when nobody listens to you? How to establish calm without screaming even stronger than everyone? Sylvie Jenaly, who has been playing Super Nanny for ten years now, has a proven technique.
In the next episode, which marks the launch of the 10ᵉ season of “Super Nanny” broadcast on April 9 on TF1the expert goes on mission in the south of France, in Arles, to help Anne-Marie, 28, and Donovan, 25, a young couple overwhelmed by her four little girls: Kyara, 9, Eylina, 5, Naelya, 2 and a half, and Adriya, 18 months. At home, calm has become luxury. The family lives in a permanent hubbub: children shout or speak hard without even realizing it. A noisy atmosphere that exhausts the parents, unable to be heard and put a peaceful setting.
Super Nanny noted it as soon as she passed the door threshold. “It is true that the decibels were quite incredible in this house, even if we must not forget that we are in the south: there, people are used to speaking strong. The mother was full of life, so necessarily, the children too”, she told us. So to appease the situation, Sylvie Jenaly implemented a fairly fun exercise that the little girls quickly adopted. “We tried to talk to each other when whispering, precisely, to be able to really listen to each other. Then, we tried to find a more or less normal sound level, because we don’t need to shout to be understood. It was the exercise that we put to the test throughout the day”, she explained to us. And it generally works on all children …
This technique summons what are called “mirror neurons”. “”When you have someone in front of you who speaks gently, our mirror neurons are busy. They are a bit the masters of imitation: they reproduce what they see. So if we speak slowly, kindly, calmly, we will necessarily have the same thing in return. But if we shout, the children will scream too “, underlines Super Nanny. And according to the expert, it’s not that complicated to set up!
