Benton Family

## Episode summary

Jo heads off to Florence, South Carolina to meet Greg (44) and Amber Benton (33) with their two chaotic kids: Rivers (10) and Hunter (8) River is dependent on his parents, and Hunter is very strong-willed. The boys are aggressive and mouthy due to their parents' constant arguing, which threatens the stability of their marriage. The boys bicker and cause all sorts of mischief around the household. Not only do the boys act out, but the parents can be aggressive and rude. Can Jo fix Greg and Amber's marriage and get the boys to tow the line or will the family fall apart?

## Episode Recap

### Observation

Jo meets the family and they went outside where Greg and the boys playing football for a method keep the boys strong to workout to protect themself. and Rivers came to Amber that using Homophobic Slurs calling Hunter a F----- Amber react and said keep your comment to yourself and told Jo about the slur it's offensive that Jo said from using abusive words. Back inside when Amber wants Rivers to do Homework doing spelling test Rivers was relying on dad from the wrong answers, and Greg stared to lose his patience from wrong spelling and Hunter to misspell the words treating Rivers like a burden when it's come to homework.

Jo and Hunter went outside to have a talk on the trampoline and he shares a dark side of Greg so mad and Amber unhappy when they were in a argument and he stated his feeling about that they're gonna get a divorce and Jo was shocked.

### Parent Meeting

Jo talks to Amber and Greg about the boys discipline, teaching the boys to be manly, homework, homophobic slurs and parents argument divorce.

### Teaching

Jo shows Amber and Greg a clip of Hunter using word divorce Greg and Amber did not said a word that Hunter said it, where they went to the kitchen and Greg went berserk front of Jo went to a screaming match from divorce when Amber tries to tell him about divorce but he decline but it hit hard when they still arguing and Jo was silenced and said to Greg: Don't shut down don't quit. But he decline to speak to Jo. But Amber wants Jo to talk over the boys go at to Jo about the feelings. Jo breaks up the argument for a timeout and gets a timer to speak when the water runs the person ready to speak next but the timer worked to communicating and keep the tempers down and ready to move forward to continues to get back to work.

The next step is Rivers' Homework Jo got a technique for Rivers to help called M & D for Amber and Greg, when they were getting set up Greg was mollycoddling Rivers Jo step in he need to do it on his own, when Hunters refuse to do his homework Jo teaches Amber how to do discipline and Hunter started swung on Amber to place the pencil and she tries gave him a last chance and Jo reacted and she stepped in and giving Hunter a warning and put Hunter into Reflection Room but Amber was being a pushover to Hunter and Jo stepped in again and tells to go to timeout in his room. Jo will be back for 3 days to get Greg and Amber to get work on homework and boundaries.

### Parents Evaluation

Jo returns to The Benton home 3 days later showing footage where they gone wrong.

#### Clip 1

Amber overreacted to Rivers' homework making the wrong answers and Rivers got annoying from mom putting wrong answers, Jo states that's not Amber's homework, It's Rivers' homework from overcontrolling and Amber was a pain in the butt.

#### Clip 2

Greg was pushing Hunter to do homework but Hunter was annoying and tell him stop rushing from Greg being a pushover and reply to stop talking to him like that, Jo said felt like an episode of Boot Camp going on there but his tone was so pushy and not correct.

#### Clip 3

Amber went to a screaming pushover match at Rivers to get his Grammer book out and screams at Rivers and Amber put Rivers in timeout an hour and she continues to screams at Rivers to do what he was told and went back to timeout again for 40 minutes total of time took 2 hours and 40 minutes and went to a football practice.

Jo was not happy that Amber and Greg almost failed they need to work on their tones, discipline and homework for not being pushovers.

### Reinforcement

Jo needs to fix Discipline and she gave Amber tips about discipline. Jo fix the homework and spaces for Rivers and teaches how to be calm when it comes from Rivers doing his homework. Jo, Greg and the boys went outside to show pictures from the past when they were born but then Hunter ruined it when he was being very disrespectful but Greg gave Hunter a warning but he continues smart mouth and he was sent to timeout, after his minutes are up and Hunter apologize and Greg was calmed. Jo said her final goodbyes to The Benton.

## Family members

 Amber
 Rivers
 Hunter

## Trivia

* Many people criticised Supernanny for leaving the house during the Family Test Run Segment due to what she saw from Amber & Greg to Rivers & Hunter during Homework by acting like pushovers to them (We get that Jo was right about Amber & Greg being pushovers however) which made her almost failed helping a Family for the 5th Time.
	+ There are 6 other Families she almost failed helping as well (One is set to private due to Family Requests), they include:
	+ The Bailey Family (Season 1) Due to Bill & Stacie being against Jo due to the way she talked to them in the Parents Meeting Segment as well as Bill planning to Kick Jo out from the house (In which he actually didn't).
	+ The Bowersock Family for Jen almost spanking Madeline in timeout.
	+ The Bates Family At the end of The Family Test Run Sarah was being a pushover at Callum to pick a card during the game which it's upset him and the whole game but Jo was not happy at Sarah that she's making rules from the game.
	+ The McKeever Family For 2 reasons: Due to Corey walking away from Jo in the DVD Meeting Section and for Hunter & River being shown to be extremely sexist to not only Jo, but Lucy as well.
	+ The Jones-Nickolich Family (Arguably The Worst Family she almost failed to help the most as well as it being the closest Jo had gotten to actually fail a family) Due to Todd banning Jo from the house mostly due to the way she talked to him in The Parents Meeting Section. Which could have made The Triplets' behaviours get even worse if Jo actually failed, but she was back in The House 2 Days Later.
* Even though they talked about having a divorce, despite their arguments, as of now, Greg and Amber are still together.
* This is the first episode to take place in South Carolina. The second episode that takes place in South Carolina is The Froebrich Family.
* This is also the first episode where the kids never cry.

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/GregBenton7/status/1259151912362037253?cxt=HHwWisC-6cb\_s\_kiAAAA