The McCray Family

**The McCray Family** is the second episode of Season 1 of Nanny 911.

## Synopsis

Meet the McCrays: Dad, Craig, is a New York City cop, feels guilty about being away from his kids and indulges their every whim to the point of going behind Mom's back; while Tracey is exhausted by their constant demands and violent behavior.- IMDb

## Family Members

* Craig McCray
* Tracy McCray
* C.J, 9
* Michael (Mikey), 6
* Joseph, 3
* Jack & Francis, 2

### Introduction

Craig is a NYC Cop and Tracey is a Stay at home mom. C.J gets everyone started and goes from room to room causing havoc. Michael is competitive and talks back. Joseph throws the most tantrums, Jack and Francis are destructive toddlers. Tracey is at a loss of how to discipline her five-children while Craig lets certain things slide. An anniversary dinner is coming and the boy unruly behavior will ruin it. Craig is betting his pension that no one can fix his family.

### Observation day

Nanny Stella meets the 3 youngest boys but C.J. and Mikey refuse to meet the Nanny. Tracey drags them out physically. When Stella meets Craig he tells Stella he is betting his pension. Michael begins to act out when he wanted some iced tea so he bit Tracy.

Later Tracy attempts to read a book to the kids but the boys end up roughhousing with each other and creating chaos and throwing things. As the day goes on The kids wreck the house and destroy the couch, Mikey nearly broke his neck. Nanny Stella observes the chaos in the McCray household and decides she´s seen enough.

### Parent Sitdown

Nanny Stella tells the parents that there is a lack of discipline, consistency, and consequences in the house. Stella tells them that she will come up with a solution to their problem.

### Teaching

Nanny Stella sits Tracy, Craig and C.J and implements household rules and a routine and new discipline called Timeout which Craig was skeptical about. Craig looked confused, C.J looks horrified, and Tracy looked pleased to have change in the house.

The first thing on Nanny Stella´s agenda is to take on C.J. and get him to behave in order to get the rest of the brood acting better. Nanny Stella doesn't have to wait long, rather than helping C.J. jumps around and acts wild. Nanny Stella warns him, but C.J. doesn't listen so he ends up in timeout, he gets out of Timeout again and again and finally stays put after Stella and Craig kept putting him back.

Nanny Stella wants to see how the McCray's act in public so she suggests a trip to the park, Tracey struggles to get the 3 youngest to sit in their car seats. Stella decides to bring the car seats in the house so Joseph and the twins can become more acquainted with them, The parents are skeptical and makes a sarcastic remark. Nanny Stella then explains that she cares about the boys and so should They as parents. When Nanny Stella brings the seats inside the boys do well

C.J asks if the family can eat out, Nanny Stella says only if the family behaves at dinner that night, So at dinner Stella gives the family a dinner behavioral test. At dinner things start out bad with the boys acting up but both parents sit down and eat rather than controlling the kids leaving Stella to control them, Soon Mikey, Joseph, Jack, and Francis are under the table screaming. Tracey sees this as a failure and her excuse for being lazy is that she's had enough.

It's a Saturday morning and all 5 boys are home together and of course the chaos continues as the boys roughhouse and misbehave, Jack even pees on the floor. After making their mom crazy they run into Craig's room and wake him up by jumping on him. With both parents exhausted by their kids Tracy's Mother (Mimi) comes to pay a visit she's also the host of the anniversary dinner and is worried about the boys' behavior. When Tracey expresses her rebellion, Mimi then encourages Tracey to try Nanny 911 .

During the talk Francis takes a pen to the couch. When Tracy finds out she has a change of heart, she drags Francis to timeout and makes him sit there for six minutes, she was firm and consistent Nanny Stella is proud.

The real test is at dinner.

When the family is

## Pop Culture

* When Joseph said, "I want my dippy", an episode of Elmo's World could be seen on the TV in the background.
	+ The Little People Animal Sounds Zoo playset can also be seen in the same scene.
* A Dino Thunder Blue Ranger figure is shown

## Gallery

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