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There are a couple of nanny-rescue TV programs that feature unruly children and their exasperated parents. These reality shows are set in the subject family’s home where camera crews document kids who are out of control and screaming or oblivious parents. The nanny swoops in to save the beleaguered family with simple disciplinary techniques and reward systems.

I might be a bigger of these supper nanny shows if they had been around while my children were small. The nannies offer sound advice and practical solutions to a variety of behavior problems that I definitely could have used in my parenting arsenal.

Usually the nanny show families are genuinely interested in turning things around. They’re willing to open up their home and expose their shortcomings in exchange for expert advice on raising well-behaved and well-adjusted children.

The attitude of parents in the world of pageants is something different altogether. Just last night I was stunned to hear a pageant mom calmly declare that she wasn’t the least bit embarrassed by her 3-year-old hitting and screaming because “It was still cute.” The child promptly socked her in the face with a pageant prop.

Combining the nanny show with the pageant show would probably be very entertaining. The pampered pageant princesses and their manipulative moms could definitely use a nanny intervention.