Kansas sextuplets aren't so public

She has watched “Jon Kate Plus 8” a few times, Sondra Headrick said, mostly to compare notes.“I guess there was some curiosity there,” she said of the reality show that chronicles the lives of Jon and Kate Gosselin and their eight children.

[ShapelyTex]

See, you don't have to pimp your kids out to raise them. Do you think this family is BAD because they DIDN'T go the Kate and Jon route and get more
STUFF for their kids? Like I've said, I know someone with multiples roughly the age of Kate's kids. The mom never wanted them and went back to work as soon as possible, hiring Nannies to cook, clean, do laundry and bathe, dress, and practically raise her kids. She told me that she would come home in the evenings, maybe change a diaper and put them to bed. They would sleep until the next morning and she didn't look at them before she went to work at 5:30 a.m. When we saw things first hand, she would just put them in their exercisers so she didn't have to be bothered. She had the nannies there even when she had out of town guests. There was maybe one pic of her holding one of the kids on her lap and that was only after I pointed it out to her that except as newborns, you rarely saw anyone holding the kids. They were strapped in a bouncer, strapped in a high chair, in an exersaucer or somewhere other than in someone's arms. They showed physical developmental delays. Am I just out of touch? Is this how moms of multiples in this modern world deal with multiples?

[ShapelyTex]

I'm back.

[name814]

abort em' no more multiples

[ShapelyTex]

I'm realizing that moms today are not raising their own kids. Any helper or nanny will do. If you can push out litters, you can get a brand new house, maids, nannies, helpers and then go get plastic surgery because you DESERVE IT. I guess I could probably go BUY some frozen embryos and have them implanted. They call them snowflakes. Why is this insanity/messing with nature allowed?

I think Kate paid to have that doctor guarantee her a LITTER.

[ShapelyTex]

name814 wrote:

abort em' no more multiples

Actually, they are sprouting out everywhere which is making Jon and Kate not such a big commodity or oddity. They must be peeing in their own pants. What will they do to make a living if their show is cancelled? They better put some money in a sock or between the mattresses. I fear the end is near.
Even if they don't cancel the show, people are bored with it or just turn in for curiosity, not because they really care.

[Vince]

Sounds like a loving family that is grateful for their kids and what they have...the focus seems to be on normacy...not $$$. They seem to be managing to provide for their kids without TV cameras...apparently it can be done...had been done and is being done..so much for those that say Jon and Kate had to provide for the kids and hawking them out was the only way.

[43 Pounds and Counting]

Vince wrote:

Sounds like a loving family that is grateful for their kids and what they have...the focus seems to be on normacy...not $$$. They seem to be managing to provide for their kids without TV cameras...apparently it can be done...had been done and is being done..so much for those that say Jon and Kate had to provide for the kids and hawking them out was the only way.

There are also shows like Run's House where they show how families can
blend together and become one family. He has kids from a previous marriage. They had two together. They lost a child. They adopted a child. It's a large family and it works. There's so much going on all the time that it's more interesting. Five year olds walking in the woods.
BORRINGGG.

[Nexxus]

Vince wrote:

Sounds like a loving family that is grateful for their kids and what they have...the focus seems to be on normacy...not $$$. They seem to be managing to provide for their kids without TV cameras...apparently it can be done...had been done and is being done..so much for those that say Jon and Kate had to provide for the kids and hawking them out was the only way.

Same thing with the Dilleys who are still married, BTW.

[Nicki]

Vince wrote:

Sounds like a loving family that is grateful for their kids and what they have...the focus seems to be on normacy...not $$$. They seem to be managing to provide for their kids without TV cameras...apparently it can be done...had been done and is being done..so much for those that say Jon and Kate had to provide for the kids and hawking them out was the only way.

Can you imagine Becki Dilley or Bobbi McCaughey sporting the skimpy bathing suits to get attention or having to have a vehicle for each day of the week? Becki and Bobbi were much more down to earth. I think the Dilleys had a once a year update when the kids were little. I think all of Becki's kids were find. I think one had attention deficit. Two of Bobbi's kids had cerebral palsy. It's bizarre to think that Kate would do in-vitro to try to get 7, but only SIX made it. Two of her kids lagged behind physically, but she will never admit it on TV. Then, after, Kate got her show, up pops Jenny Masche with six, another couple with six, and a couple in Texas now pregnant with six. Even when they don't get six, you see more sets of FIVE, FOUR and THREE or even TWO. I watched the Thanksgiving clip from the Arizona SIX PACK and that was plenty.
Who even gets WE TV anyway? If they can't get on a real channel, I doubt it will go past six episodes.

[melissa]

the duggars have a tour bus, 15 passanger bus, suburban, car, 15 passanger van. is that o.k.? who cares what the gosselins drive? different strokes for different folks.

[Nicki]

melissa wrote:

the duggars have a tour bus, 15 passanger bus, suburban, car, 15 passanger van. is that o.k.? who cares what the gosselins drive? different strokes for different folks.

Apparently you do since you keep a list and read their 20 and Counting.
Did you see that the Duggars were smart enough to install an intercom system in their home and Mama Duggar aka Michelle doesn't run around all day yelling "Who Pooped" "Call out if you pooped"...what a moron Kate looks like on that clip.

Also, if you go to the Duggar clips, they gave the show credit for helping them finish the house. They don't pretend they do it all.