911! - Let's Save "Nanny 911"

2011-09-06T18:43:00.000-04:00

.It's been a long time since I have posted. I apologize. I got busy with a major project at one
of my jobs and have finally worked out most of the kinks ... with the help of a very nice volunteer
who knows a lot more about computers and databases than I do.

Back to "Nanny 911". I still want to save it ... still would like to see DVD's of all the episodes for
the four seasons it has run so far. But with reality TV being what it is, I'm not getting much
response on the fifth season idea which I had hoped for. The format was so good and worked
so well, I'd really prefer to see more seasons of the same.

Until that happens I may change the focus of this blog. Wouldn't it be nice to have all the shows
that *have* been made on DVD or in digital format so they could be referred to when a parent has
problems. Just asking a question and hoping for a simple answer is not enough. It would be nice
to refer to a show where that question was addressed and where parents can see for themselves
the practices helpful in their particular situation.

Yes, it would be nice to have more shows but in the meantime, I would like for these parents who
struggling get help now.

Any ideas from you who are reading this blog?

Nanny 911 TV Show

2009-11-18T23:44:00.010-05:00

From:
Lydia Godfrey
1220 Blake Lea
Sevierville, TN 37862
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savenanny911

To:
MTV Networks
ATTN: Nicole Zien, Director of Development and
Melanie Moreau, Vice President of Development
2600 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Dear Nicole and Melanie,

It has come to my attention that time is running out for CMT to pick up it's option for a fifth season of Nanny 911. Can this show be saved?

This Team of World Class Nannies and the families that so desperately need their help are hopefully not at the end of their rope with Country Music Television. It was such a brilliant move to pick this show up. Unfortunately time changes led to lower ratings, not because we as fans didn't want to see the shows but because we had a hard time finding them. Look at the views clips of Nanny 911 get on YouTube with the benefit of a search engine!

Please give this show a chance! It has helped save so many families already! With the amount of marketing that Style puts into Supernanny, Nanny 911 would top it in ratings easily. Nanny 911 has heart, sound structure, great editing, and the finest nannies I have ever seen in my life!

Nanny Deb Carroll, Nanny Stella Reid and Nanny Yvonne Finnerty all know how to reach parents that seem to be unreachable, doing what they do so well with compassion, humor, and persistence. They work wonders with the heart of women who truly care about children and healthy families. Nanny 911 is exceptionally entertaining as well as practical in helping me with the children in my own life. I know it has to be helping others like me.

Please pick up CMT's option for a 5th season of Nanny 911.

Gratefully,
Lydia Godfrey
Nanny 911 Fan

2009-10-31T11:39:00.002-04:00

Follow Nanny Deb on Twitter @nannydeb.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savenanny911/index.html

Hello friends of Nanny 911!

Happy Halloween! It's a busy day with all the fascinating impersonators out tonight.

I'll be passing out flyers with a link to the petition tonight to parents. Will try to come back later and link you to a copy of it.

If you haven't signed it online yet, please go there to sign at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savenanny911/index.html

Meanwhile, I need to take some groceries to a couple of families who can't get out to the ministry.

Have a good day!
Lydia : )

2009-10-30T11:00:00.002-04:00

Follow Nanny Deb on Twitter @nannydeb.

Sign the petition to save Nanny 911 for a fifth season
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savenanny911/

Hi, Friends of Nanny 911!

I apologize I didn't make it here yesterday ... a full day and night at two different jobs.

If you haven't read my blog yet for Wednesday, please read it to see ways you can help save "Nanny 911" for a 5th season of new shows. Can this family of Nanny 911 nannies, production team, and fans be saved! YES!!!!!!!!

Our most immediate action at hand is to sign the petition at the link above. This petition will be e-mailed and snail-mailed by registered mail on November 19, 2009 to the appropriate executives at CMT of MTV Networks. Also if you want to call or e-mail the executives *now* to voice your opinion of why the show should be picked up for a 5th season, the e-mail addresses and phone number to call are on the petition.

I wish you all the very best of days.

Thank you for your support,
Lydia Godfrey
One of many fans of "Nanny 911"

What lies within us

2009-10-28T09:10:00.002-04:00

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear Friends of Nanny 911,

What lies behind is four wonderful seasons of "Nanny 911" that have helped so many families become healthier, happier parents and children. The show has helped not just the families on the shows but also all the millions of families that have been taught by *watching* the shows.

What lies before us is unknown ... will CMT pick up its option to produce a 5th season of new "Nanny 911" shows? Will they drop the ball and a more supportive network pick it up? Will Nanny Deb and Nanny Stella and Nanny Yvonne go on to find other venues to help more families through the medium of television? With more funding, will Nanny Yvonne Finnerty rejoin the show?

All of these are tiny matters compared to what lies within us ... what lies within *all* of us who care about those invisible things that really matter ... things like love and respect and consistency and peace and harmony. These things are invisible but they show themselves at a physical level. Love shows by the snuggles we give children who are simply needing a little loving attention. Respect shows by the kind ways we treat each other. Consistency shows by doing what we say we will do, being faithful in following through with consequences when we set boundaries of acceptable behavior, and giving praise dependably when it is due. Peace and harmony shows itself in families getting along, using normal, calm voices to speak with each other, making compromises when five people want to all do different activities, etc.

These are the type of things that the nannies of "Nanny 911" very consistently, very effectively and very lovingly teach through this remarkable show ... this remarkable teaching tool where people could see for themselves how it's done and how it really *does* work if you work it.

What lies within, behind the surface of all these "things" is a very simple, quiet love for all humankind.

What lies within me is to help the nannies help more people in any way I can from that place of love I have for all humankind.

Today the nannies of "Nanny 911" are still making their difference by caring for children in families, one family at a time, doing family consulting, answering parents' questions on radio and TV talk shows, having a book out on parenting which you can get at: http://www.amazon.com/Nanny-911-Expert-Parenting-Emergencies/dp/006085295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256738578&sr=8-1 , having a DVD out with their first season of shows which you can get at: http://www.amazon.com/Nanny-911-Season-1/dp/B0011Z5NMS/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1256739005&sr=8-7 , etc.

You can ask to be a friend of Nanny Deb on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1265794629&v=feed&story_fbid=163233778591#/Nanny.Debs or follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nannydeb .

You can ask to be a friend of Nanny Stella on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=stella+e+reid&init=quick . Nanny Stella also does family consultations, nanny training, nanny referrals and speaking engagements. You can contact her for these services through her official site at http://www.nannystella.com/#home .

You can ask to be a friend of the most recent Nanny Yvonne on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=stella+e+reid&init=quick#/yvonne.finnerty?ref=frmf or listen to her radio parenting advice show at
http://multimedia.boston.com/search?q=Yvonne+Finnerty .

They are all still making their differences for children and parents and families where they are.

The question from within me is, "How much *more* of a difference could they be making with millions of viewers on a major television network?" To them, I believe, (well, I'm sure they could use a little more income like all of us), and to me, I'm sure (I have nothing to gain from this but fulfillment), this is not about money but about helping children. To the networks, it seems to be pretty much about money, even when there are individuals at the networks who really care about children. They still have to answer to that bottom line. They need to see that a *lot* ... I mean a *lot* of people would watch the show if the network invested in it.

Right now there is one network in question. CMT has the option to take the show into a fifth season, if they decide to, through December of this year (2009).

To let them know there are a *lot* of people interested, I strongly urge you to, from what lies within in you for the good of children and for the good of all mankind to:
1. Sign the petition asking CMT to pick up its option on "Nanny 911" for a fifth season at:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savenanny911/index.html
2. Write and call CMT to let them know you want the show back for a fifth season at:
MTV Networks
ATTN: Nicole Zien, Director of Development
2600 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 752-8261 (Brad Austin, Nicole's Assistant)
3. Write snail mail letters and send them out on November 19, 2009, so a lot of mail will land in
the network office at the same time, asking for a 5th season of "Nanny 911". The address is
above. We are suggesting putting an inexpensive kitchen timer like the nannies sometimes
use for time outs in with your mail to help get the network's attention that time is running
out for them to pick up their option for the "Nanny 911" Season Five series of new shows.
4. Follow all of the nannies on the sites given above so that we can point out to the network how
many followers they have on Twitter and how many friends they have on Facebook.
5. Visualize from what lies within you, knowing that a show this good *can* be saved, seeing in
your heart's mind a brand new season of shows of "Nanny 911".
6. Watch "Nanny 911" when it airs in your locality.
7. Buy products from the sponsors of companies that advertise between segments of "Nanny
911".
8. And do anything else you feel led from within to do, not just to help the show but to *live*
what the show teaches .... Let a child know that you believe in them, that you see the good
in them. Treat children and everyone with kindness, love, and respect.
9. And please accept my thanks for all you do from what lies within *you* to make your own
wonderful difference in the world.

Gratefully,
Lydia Godfrey

Petition to Save TV Show Nanny 911

2009-10-19T13:43:00.003-04:00

Last night I published a petition through iPetitions to get signatures to send to CMT asking them to pick up their option to a fifth season for Nanny 911.

iPetitions gives you an opportunity to donate to them but it is not required to sign the petition. It is totally optional.

Your comments are appreciated very much but not required to sign the petition.

We will close the petition on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, and print a hard copy to send to Country Music Television by registered mail on that date. We want to make sure they get it!

Please sign the petition and ask any of your friends and family who love the show to also go to http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipetitions.com%2Fpetition%2Fsavenanny911%2F&h=1e91e05c16a854b4974e9740f6238270 and sign the petition.

Will let you know tomorrow how we're doing with the signatures.

Thank you so, so much!
Lydia : )

Phone Contact for CMT

2009-10-17T02:43:00.002-04:00

Follow Nanny Deb on Twitter @nannydeb.

These are the only contacts I have by phone to CMT. If you have a better number, please let me know.
1-615-335-8343 - This appears to be the main switchboard desk. The lady was curious, though, how I got that number ... maybe it is more private than I realized when I found it? When I asked for the office in charge of selecting programs to be picked up for a new season, I was given this number:
1-615-335-8400. However, the lady who answered this number was not even aware that CMT had the option, through December, of picking up "Nanny 911" for a 5th season. When I insisted that I knew this to be the case, she finally sent me to a comment line.

I suggest you call 1-615-335-8400, let the person who answers know you are interested in seeing "Nanny 911" continue on the air for a 5th season, and then if they try to put you off, saying CMT only is airing re-runs, ask to be transferred to the comment line where you can restate your interest in seeing the show continue and any other nice things you would like to say about "Nanny 911" and how much you like it, etc.

Please call, get your friends to call ... anybody you know who enjoys the show and/or has benefitted in some way by watching the show ... the more calls asking for the show back, the better!

Thanks for your support!
Lydia

2009-10-04T21:58:00.001-04:00

Also let the networks know you're a fan by posting comments on this Nanny Deb fan site on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nanny-911/61476413956?v=wall&ref=mf

Looking for the right contact

2009-10-04T20:53:00.002-04:00

You can follow Nanny Deb on Twitter @nannydeb http://twitter.com/nannydeb and on Facebook under Deborah Carroll http://www.facebook.com/Nanny.Debs

Follow Nanny Stella on Facebook under Stella E Reid http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1265794629

Follow Nanny Yvonne on Facebook under http://www.facebook.com/yvonne.finnerty

Follow the Nannies on Facebook or Twitter

2009-09-24T01:52:00.001-04:00

Another idea ... so we can point to numbers for the networks ... go to "nannydeb" on Twitter and ask to follow her, go to "Deborah Carrol" on Facebook and click on "Add as Friend", go to "Stella E Reid" on Facebook and click on "Add as Friend" or go to "Nanny 911" and click on "Become a Fan".

To networks, 1 person can represent 10,000 people who are interested in a show but not actively asking about it. 100 follows can represent 100,000 people interested in Nanny Deb or Nanny Stella and the "Nanny 911" show.

To show the networks there is a massive interest in the show, go to your Twitter home page.

1. Click on "Find People" and type in "nannydeb" under where it says "Who are you looking for?"

2. Then click on "Search".

3. Then click on the "Follow" button and ask to follow Nanny Deb.

and/or go to your Facebook home page.

1. Click in the "Search" box and type in "Deborah Carroll" or "Stella E Reid" (no period after "E") or "Nanny 911".

2. Then click on "Add as Friend" (for Deb and Stella) or "Become a Fan" (for Nanny 911)

3. A box will come up "Add Deborah Carroll as a friend?" or "Add Stella E Reid as a friend?" or "Security Check" (for "Nanny 911" ... see 5. below). For "Nanny 911", after following step 5 below, click "Submit" and you will be added as a fan of "Nanny 911". (You do not have to wait to be approved as a fan on Facebook.)

4. For "Deborah Carrol" and "Stella E Reid", click on "Send Request".

5. A "Security Check" box with two words will come up. Type the 2 words exactly as you see them in the empty box below the two words.

6. Wait for approval. When you are accepted, you will get an e-mail letting you know that you have been added as Deborah Carroll's or Stella E Reid's friend.

Very simple steps to take but we are trusting they will help us get Nanny Deb and Nanny Stella and "Nanny 911" back on the air. We will be pointing out to the network/networks we pitch to how popular the nannies and the show are by the number of friends, followers, and fans. So the more places you sign up, the better. Also you can post about how the show has helped and how much you would like to see another season of it.

Thank you for being such a great fan!
Lydia

Ideas for a plan of action

2009-09-17T05:01:00.000-04:00

1. It's not in the articles but what about, first, some creative visualization? ... seeing Season 5 and beyond before the physical reality?

2. Decide on a network/networks to target to ask to pick up the show. We can write CMT but they don't have a history of respecting the show either with scheduling or promoting ... we might want to give them a time out to think about that.

3. Start a letter-writing campaign. Include that this show draws an easily-targeted audience for sponsors. Include that with proper scheduling and promotion, this show has already-proven popularity.

4. Visit IMDb.com and post comments and show activity on the show's listing (Nanny 911) there. Enough posts and views from different viewers will raise the popularity rating. There are also listings for Nanny Deb (Deborah Carroll), Nanny Stella (Stella Reid), Nanny Lillian (Lillian Sperling) and the 2004 Season's Yvonne Shove.

5. Get as many followers as possible for Nanny Deb (Search "Deborah Carroll") on Twitter.

6. Online petition (the articles question the value of this ... we can take a poll to decide whether to include this in our plan of action.)

7. Write shows like "Ellen" and "Oprah" to have the nannies from the show as guests, to show a clip and to promote the worth of the show.

8. Comment, comment, comment on how watching the show has helped you either as a parent or as someone who interacts with kids in some other role. Let them know you want to see more of "Nanny 911".

9. Read the articles for other ideas ... Share your own ideas ... I'll add more letter ... I have 3 hours to sleep time before I go to work ... LOL

10. Thank you for helping. : )