‘Train your Baby like a Dog’, which airs next week (Tuesday 20 August at 8pm), teaches parents how to use clicker training normally used on dogs to train their children to be compliant with treats.
In the one-hour pilot programme, dog trainer and animal behaviourist Jo-Rosie Haffenden uses her dog training techniques with three-year-old Greydon, who is experiencing daily tantrums and violent outbursts, and 18-month-old Dulcie who refuses to sleep in her own cot.
Autistic Inclusive Meets, a not-for-profit organisation for families with autistic children and autistic individuals has started a petition calling for Channel 4 to cancel the programme, which it argues is ‘dehumanising’ to children.
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