The parents so extreme they made a TV show about them.

When good parents get it very wrong.

Meet Shria Adler. And her hysterical son Yonah, 10.

Shria is administering ‘eco-kosher, shamanistic, aromatherapy’ on her young son in an attempt to treat his hyperactivity. He clearly hates every second of it but Shria is desperate to avoid medicating her son.

See, each day she forces him to be spritzed with a series of pleasant-smelling concoctions while peering at his aura to see if it is making a difference.

Welcome to the new reality show Extreme Guide to Parenting presented by US production company Bravo that is also responsible for The Real Housewives series.

While reviews for the show are mixed with comments ranging from “disturbing” to “misguided”, there’s no questioning the love these parents feel for their children. The Adlers are just one example of parenting gone wrong but they are the one that stand out from the first episode because parents can sympathise with this mum’s fear of medicating her child.

Her husband completely opposes her choice to treat her son with forced sprays aromatherapy potions and aura adjustments but she continues to treat not just her son but her daughter.

It's then revealed that Shira's fear of medicating her children stems from a bad lithium prescription that caused her mother's liver to fail and her daughter has also been mis-medicated in the past.

So her kids are subjected to alternative therapies, much to their discomfort and her husband's horror.

Other parents featured on the first episode include:

A gay couple in LA who are there for their three-year-old daughter 24/7, catering to her every whim, no exaggeration.

A Long Island Tiger-mum who doesn't let her five-year-old eat breakfast until he practices writing his name on a white board and recites the US presidents.

Shari Levine, Bravo’s senior vice president of current production, says, “The motivation of these families is that they really believe in what they’re doing. They don’t see it as putting their child out there, they want to help people. They’re passionate about parenting.”

And that's what will keep people watching.

Do you think any of your parenting habits could make it onto an episode of this show?

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