The McRoberts Family

**The McRoberts Family** is the third episode of Season 1 of Nanny 911.

## Episode Summary

With 7-year-old triplets Nate, Sam and Josh, and 3-year-old twins Joey and Jake, there's never at dull moment at the McRoberts house. Dianna and Doug McRoberts have their hands full with their five young sons, who are so competitive that even when they're helping their dad rake leaves, it quickly turns into a brawl and someone ends up crying

.With a neighborhood BBQ coming up, Doug and Dianna are concerned about the boys' out of control behaviour.

## Recap

### Observation day

Nanny Deb meets the boys later at lunch she meets Douglas trouble soon starts, The triplets get into a food fight whilst the younger ones scream. Dianna and Doug only yell at their kids which only makes more noise. Nanny Deb says "This is the loudest household i've been in". After lunch, Doug leaves for work leaving mom and the kids.

The boys crowd together in the living room and take their candy out , The triplets raid the pantry. All the sugar and candy caused the kids to go on a rampage they run around, roughhouse, fight and throw objects at each other, Dianna had no control over them. Before dinner the kids take their candy out again this time Dianna threaten to take it away.
Doug comes home from work. At bedtime Joey jumps on the bed Doug loses it, grabs Joey and screams at him to "Stop". This leaves Joey crying under his blanket.

### Parent Meeting

Nanny Deb tells Doug and Dianna her plans for the week and leaves. Doug is resistant and says (With a smile) "There is no way, I challenge Nanny Deb to bring serenity to our home."

### Action

At 8:00am Nanny Deb sit Doug and Dianna down and goes over the rules and routine

Later she presents the rules to the boys. Then she takes the boys to the kitchen to teach them about nutrition and healthy eating, so she asks the older boys to take something healthy out of the fridge. Samuel comedically takes diet soda him and his brothers have a laugh, after Nanny Deb locks the pantry and cleans it out. She also makes the boys do house chores and if they slack of they can't play Gameboy, or DS. The kids went to go make their beds but Jacob and Joey jumped on their bed and didn't understand. So Nanny Deb had to step in and help them.

Dianna is put to the test when she tells the boys that they switch chores every week, Joshua disagrees and argues ¨I´ll remember my chores¨. Diana keeps calm and persistent. Nanny Deb notes that there is tension between Dianna and her son Joshua so, And later Joshua refuses to listen Dianna sits down and talk to Joshua she is soon to break down and cry this causes Joshua to also cry, Nanny Deb praises Dianna for what she did.

Nanny Deb turns her attention to Doug who is still resistant, she is worried that Doug's absence causes him to miss out on important lessons. When he comes home from work the boys are out of control and toys are scattered all over the house, rather than cleaning the boys go outside to play. Doug yells at them to get back inside, Instead of cleaning up their toys they play around. Doug grabs Samuel and screams at him. Diana tells Doug to stop yelling and just talk to them sternly.

Nanny Deb had enough and confronted Doug about his threatening behavior, Doug takes her to task telling her that she dosen't have a clue of what it feels like to have a bunch of boys in one house, once Nanny Deb mentions how Samuel is afraid of him, he finally relents. Doug talks to Samuel at dinner about his screaming Samuel admits that he is afraid of Doug.

Over the next few days, the boys are eating healthier, both parents have stopped yelling and are now communicating with their children properly. Dinner Times are orderly as the boys help out and use their manners.

The next day was the neighborhood party. Dianna & Doug go over the rules with the kids and tell the. At the BBQ the kids are well-behaved everyone is happy. With tearful goodbyes Nanny Deb leaves for good.

### Gift Portion

The family got a new family computer, season tickets to Indiana Packets and Indianapolis Colitis, and a brothers for life Shirts

## Family Members

* Douglas McRoberts
* Dianna McRoberts
* Nathaniel, Samuel and Joshua, 7
* Joseph & Jacob, 3

## Gallery

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## External Links

* Full Episode
* Press release from FOX