Nanny's visit is super

Appearing on the ABC reality series "Supernanny" wasn't really Utahn Karolee Goins' idea. Despite her friend's urging, she had serious misgivings.

"I was kind of like, 'No. I'm not going to.' And my friend was, like, 'You need to,"' Goins said.

Jay and Karolee Goins are the parents of three — soon to be four — children. Not only do they have three young boys — Khalin, 7; Kolben, 5 1/2; and Kadence, who just turned 3 — but their oldest has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

"I just didn't really know how to deal with him the proper way," Karolee Goins said. "I knew that he had this problem and I had been reading books.... But when you're involved and it's personal, it's just kind of hard to step back and do the right thing."

"Supernanny" sent a photographer to the Goins home in Sandy, and he came away with some startling footage of the children pretty much out of control.

"When they said they were going to submit it to the network, we started getting nervous," Karolee Goins said. "My husband didn't want to do it ... so the producers had to convince him.

"I didn't really know what to expect. I was kind of skeptical as to how they could really turn things around."

Goins' attitude about the show turned around when she met the "Supernanny" herself, Jo Frost.

"She is so nice. She is really neat," she said "The thing that I really liked about her is that she was very nice but very professional. She kind of had two ways about her. She could be really nice and make you feel comfortable, but then she could really tell you how it is.

"I think that's really important, to have her tell you the negative things and the bad things. But it kind of takes you off guard because she'll sit down with you and she'll really let you have it."

Frost helped the Goinses understand their children and each other. Jay had to wear a heavy backpack to understand what it was like for his wife to cart kids around all day and was told to get more involved with the children; Karolee was given an exercise to show what it's like to have ADHD and told to be more compassionate and less controlling.