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This is the Woods family.
A British stepfamily from Grantham.
Mom Lucy works nights at a local college.
[INAUDIBLE] >> She has two children from a previous
marriage.
Twelve year old Caitlin and Billy, who's ten.
Dad Steve is a fireman who works shifts.
[NOISE] And then, there's the head of the household.
>> [NOISE] >> Two year old Charlie.
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>> This tantruming tot literally rules the roost.
He screams and shouts to get his own way.
Fits out at his family and throws aside anything in his path.
>> Whatever Charlie wants, Charlie gets.
And quite often,
he gets things that he doesn't even know he wants just to shut him up.
>> Shut him up.
>> What do you want?
Do you [INAUDIBLE]?
Do you want something nice?
Shall we swap seats?
Do you want to go to the gym?
>> No, [INAUDIBLE] >> [INAUDIBLE] get you dressed?
If Charlie wants the TV off, we'll turn the TV off.
>> No.
>> Stop it.
If he wants the lights off, he'll have the lights off.
In fact, quite often he'll have the lights off, the fire off, and the TV off.
And we'll just sit in the dark until he decides [LAUGH] what we're gonna do next,
isn't he?
>> Yeah.
>> It's basically like he controls mom and Steve, me and Billy.
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>> All right, he wants me to leave him on the floor.
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>> With Charlie in charge, every day is a frustrating battle.
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Meals take hours as they try to persuade Charlie to eat.
Getting clothes on or off can be a daylong struggle.
And bathtime is all-out war.
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Every exhausting day ends with a two-hour struggle just to get Charlie to bed.
Only for it all to kickoff again during the night.
[SOUND] >> We go and fetch him, and
bring him sort of straight into our bed.
Quite often he'll kick one of us out, won't he?
>> Yeah, he doesn't usually like us both in there.
[SOUND] >> Obviously it does affect our sex life.
There is no sexual relationship, or such.
>> It's not just Lucy and Steve's relationship that Charlie's destroying.
The two older children, Billy and Caitlin, are suffering too.
>> I do feel left out, because before he was born, it sort
included me and Billy in all of the stuff that Charlie does now.
>> I can't do my homework because Charlie always takes my book off me and
then steals my pen and writes on my book.
>> It's not fair that they're missing out.
Missing out on things because we give all our time to him because
we're scared of him.
It's not fair on them.
[SOUND] >> I think we've got to the point now
where we need somebody to come in.
We need this nanny to come in, and it's got a bit too big for us.
>> Enough's enough, yeah, we need it stopping.
>> No, it's not a game.
Stop now.
[INAUDIBLE] Nicky!
Nicky!
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Stop, stop.
>> Ow.
>> Hey! >> If we don't get his
behavior sorted before he starts going into September,
I am quite worried that he's gonna be excluded from every school in this borough