Supernanny slams influencer couple who said it’ll be ‘hilarious’ to hit their baby
She described the discipline practice as 'deplorable'
Supernanny Jo Frost has slammed former Bachelor star Madison Prewett and her husband Grant Troutt after they said it’d be “hilarious” to “smack” their baby as a form of punishment.
The two said the comments during their podcast, Stay True, where they said they’d be open to smacking their child as a form of punishment and added that the Bible supports their beliefs.
Grant said: “The Lord’s discipline is always off the heels of disobedience or sin. So think about it, when you have a child, you don’t just discipline them for being good and obeying you, right?
“Like, if Hosanna obeys us, we’re not like, ‘Come here girl, come here. Alright, pull ’em down, get that, you know, Mama, get here.’
“Which will be hilarious, by the way, when we start spanking Hosanna. Which we will, on the record, because the Bible clearly says, ‘Folly is bound up in a child, but discipline drives it far away.'”
In an interview with E! News, Jo Frost aka Supernanny gave her thoughts on their comments, and explained that the thought of punishing your children like that is “deplorable.”
She said: “It’s an outdated practice… It holds no benefit for the relationship of the child or for the parent.
“And how is it that we have laws in other countries and laws in this country where it is a criminal offense to commit grievous bodily harm or to touch another adult. To hit another adult.
“And to think that we can just bypass that with our youngest, most vulnerable citizens of this country. They are human beings, too.”
She continued, saying that hitting your children should always be unacceptable and that it should be completely “banned.”
” The sort of, ‘well, it never did me any harm.’ That’s just not a viable response to what we know scientifically with the data that we have today to give cause to say that this should be acceptable in this country with families. It’s just not.”
Supernanny added: “I am against smacking. I think smacking should be banned in this country. Corporal punishment should be banned.
“And considering those children and the statistics of those children that receive that corporal punishment are those that have visible and invisible disabilities, and those children of color as well, it’s deplorable to me.”
Reality Shrine has reached out to Madison Prewett for comment.
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