Supernanny Jo Frost accuses dad and mom of ‘neglect’ if they do not watch their youngsters full each day job

Supernanny Jo Frost has warned parents that they may be ‘neglecting’ their children if they don’t watch them brush their teeth.

Last week, the government’s health minister Stephen Kinnock launched a ‘toothbrushing scheme’ in schools to boost oral health in youngsters.

The programme, which will take place in nurseries and schools up and down the country, will encourage children to brush their teeth using fluoride toothpaste.

With £11,000,000 in funding, the scheme will target children between the ages of three and five in the most deprived parts of the nation.

But the news did not do down well with British childcare expert, Jo Frost, who took to Instagram to lament her frustrations at parents failing to ‘supervise’ their children brushing their teeth.

Jo, now 54, became a household name in the noughties when she went into homes of unruly children across the UK for Channel 4‘s Supernanny, offering desperate parents some relief for dealing temper tantrums.

She’s continued to give out advice since her time on the programme, offering insights on the dos and don’ts of parenting. 

‘Parents if you are not supervising your young children or brushing your VERY young children’s teeth that is PARENTAL NEGLECT,’ she wrote in a heated post.

‘What else will schools do for parents? First potty training now teeth brushing,’ she raged. 

‘How many other life skill schemes will teachers have to take on, distracting them from their real role when in fact it is actually a parent’s responsibility to uphold.’

Continuing, she penned: ‘In fact it is actually a parents responsibility to uphold, because not doing as such is child neglect. It is your child’s basic fundamental right to be cared for and their basic needs met.’

The no-nonsense approach nanny repeated the word ‘neglect’ throughout the post and emphasised the importance of parents being ‘the loving nurturing role models’ to their children.

Elsewhere, she urged the health minister to consider prioritising making ‘food that is cheaper to our families’ who are struggling to feed their families. 

The childcare expert added that they ‘might consider having 500,000 supernannies trained across Great Britain’ to provide support to families. 

She pointed out that one in five children have decayed teeth, calling it ‘deplorable’ and emphasising the need for ‘healthy oral hygiene’ in youngsters.

‘We are in a parenting crisis when we can not carve 4 mins out of our day twice a day to teach or clean our children’s teeth,’ she complained elsewhere in the post.

Several agreed with her remarks, with one frustrated parent simply writing: ‘When the hell did parents stop parenting.’

A second wrote: ‘We went to the dentist yesterday and she recommended parents brush their children’s teeth until they are eight.’ 

Another complained: ‘If you don’t have the time for basic life skills with your children don’t have children!’

‘My god these are the basics! School is not responsible for teaching children basic hygiene!’, a fourth wrote. 

It comes after the childcare expert made the shocking revelation that she was assaulted once while filming her hit Channel 4 show, Supernanny.

20 years on from launching the show the childcare expert has shared how a parent ‘grabbed by the throat and pinned her against the wall’ when he didn’t like something she said.

Appearing on the Parenting Tools Podcast, Jo explained to hosts Jason Heron and Jordan Piano that she had been attacked while filming an episode filmed in Florida in 2007 for the US version of the show. 

The television personality was visiting the Nitti family in West Melbourne, Florida, where she met Lisa, 28, her four sons, Darren, 10, Matthew, eight, Devin, six and Jared, five, as well as her boyfriend of two years, John, 44.

The mischievous boys were frequently getting into trouble for their unruly and uncontrollable behaviour, despite efforts from Lisa and John – who even dubbed their home ‘The Crazy House’.

The episode, which was eighth in the third season, proved difficult for Jo, who battled not only rowdy children, by the ‘intimidation and aggression’ from their stepfather, John.

‘I helped a family called the Nitti family in Florida and there was a gentleman, a man, who was living with his girlfriend at the time and they had four children,’ she said.

‘During my observation, the man was very aggressive. He was a complex man for sure. But he was very intimidating and had the care of these four young boys.

‘He was in this blended family, right? His girlfriend had four children and he came into the relationship with four boys. 

‘And you could see with the boys that a lot of the behaviour was mimic behaviour from the intimidation and the aggressiveness from John.

‘I observed, I gave my comments on what I observed with the family. The children and their behaviour.

‘During teaching, he didn’t like what I said and he grabbed me by the throat and he pushed me up against the wall.   

‘But he didn’t like what I had to say which was the truth of a situation of him being very intimidated and he tried to intimidate me by pushing me up against the wall and he has his hands round my throat.

She went on the say that a lot of what is filmed does not always make the final cut. 

‘A lot of things happen and I don’t share. I choose not to or I choose to do so if the moment comes up like it has here.’