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Parents' dream come true: Former 'Supernanny' Jo Frost and her bookPlay time: Joe believes in quality rather than quantity when spending time with kids You'll know Jo Frost as the no-nonsense face of 'Supernanny', but beneath her tough-talking exterior, lives a soft-spoken, 'normal' woman.

No-nonsense approach: Jo Frost has been criticised for her views on when a child should be moved from a cot to a bed She can rein in the unruliest of toddlers, tame ugly tantrums, and - seemingly without effort - has calmed many a nightmarish household overrun by naughty children.

THE trailer was enough to hook me in, with this promise from Jake Humphrey: "We're going live into the nation's homes to see what you lot get up to at bedtime." Imagine my disappointment, then, that instead of under-the-duvet cavorting between consenting adults, Channel 4 was attempting to put the nation to sleep.

'I'm highly intuitive,' insists the self-styled Super-nanny. 'I can look at a photo and tell you about your child's temperament and personality.' Say Frost had been around at the turn of the last century.