{"id":287996,"date":"2020-02-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1119908"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:00:00","slug":"matt-fraser-shares-three-pronged-approach-to-dealing-with-parents-on-meet-the-frasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/matt-fraser-shares-three-pronged-approach-to-dealing-with-parents-on-meet-the-frasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Fraser Shares Three-Pronged Approach to &#8221;Dealing With Parents&#8221; on Meet the Frasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202016\/rs_600x600-200206084100-600MattFraser-106.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>Working with family proves itself a delicate dance for psychic medium <strong>Matt Fraser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I turn manipulating parents into an art form,&#8221; he proclaims in this clip from tonight&#8217;s new <em>Meet the Frasers<\/em>, explaining his three-pronged &#8220;process&#8221; for navigating confrontations with relatives who double as employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of,&#8221; retorts Matt&#8217;s girlfriend <strong>Alexa Papigiotis<\/strong>. But he insists the approach is fail-safe and even offers to &#8220;test it&#8221; on his mother <strong>Angela Fraser<\/strong>, with whom he &#8220;had a situation the other day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a brief flashback sequence, audiences catch a glimpse of the mother-son tension, which\u2014from Matt&#8217;s perspective\u2014kicks up when Angela writes &#8220;I&#8217;m asshole&#8221; across a copy of her son&#8217;s professional head shot. &#8220;I am going to turn this around and make her want to work with those head shots like never before,&#8221; he vows, before segueing into a real-life demonstration of his scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Step one: appeal to ego. &#8220;Oh, you look so nice today mom!&#8221; Matt says when Angela first enters the room. Step two: with the subject in high spirits, address the issue at hand.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"67.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25\">\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s something that, you know, I was really hurt about the other day,&#8221; the eldest Fraser sibling continues, once his mother is feeling great about her latest dye job. &#8220;You defaced one of my head shots and it really, really made me upset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Angela points out that it was in fact her son&#8217;s behavior that prompted the offending Sharpie message. &#8220;The way you were talking down to me, the way you were treating me,&#8221; she recounts, which leads Matt to step three:&nbsp;bribery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a new job title so that you&#8217;re taken more seriously,&#8221; he says, offering&nbsp;Angela the newly-coined Director of Special Affairs role and asking her to take over presiding head shot duties in the same breath. Will she&nbsp;accept?<\/p>\n<p>See what you think of Matt&#8217;s strategy in the full clip above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <i>Meet the Frasers<\/i> Monday at 10 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119908\/matt-fraser-shares-three-pronged-approach-to-dealing-with-parents-on-meet-the-frasers?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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