Jon and Kate Plus 8 - Color Me Gosselin
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March 25, 2008 at
7:03 pm by
Allison J
I used to be a HUGE fan of Jon and Kate + 8 – I don’t have children, so I get a tickle out of watching others who do. I knew Kate was a bit wacky, but I took it in stride. I didn’t have anyone to vent to, so my pent-up frustration went unchecked. I must say, I enjoyed watching the show in ignorant bliss – until I found Jessica’s post on this blog! Now I watch each episode with a critical, and sometimes unfair, eye.
So yesterday’s episode — Color Me Gosselin. Why are you taking your kids to the Crayola Factory if you don’t want them to get dirty, or clean up after them, or use markers??? Kate, the reason your kids are having meltdowns is because you don’t let them do anything. And it’s not just me who feels this way – just ask your husband. He seems to think markers are fine.
While I am on the subject of markers – they are called washable for a reason. Last week I came home to find my precocious pooch with a chewed up purple Crayola marker. There was purple everywhere – on my cream rug, on his white paws, and all over my very expensive, very large tan micro-suede sectional sofa. But here is the real kicker – it washed right out! HA! Who would of thunk washable markers would just wash out!
Kate, you do not need to spend hours treating stains, as you claimed. You just stick the marker-decorated clothing in with the rest of the wash – you know, the stuff other people fold, iron and put away for you.
Your kids are what, three and a half and six (almost seven), right? Let them use a marker! They are freaking out and “melting down” because they are pissed. And the damn blue glue won’t kill them either. Do you really think that Crayola would supply toxic, hazardous and stain-inducing materials for their young patrons to use?
I know I don’t have any children of my own to clean up after, but during the day I am responsible for 20 – 25 youngsters. And it’s just me! No one else there to wipe noses, clean messes, correct papers, or march to lunch, music, gym, or the library.
Here’s my next complaint — stop complaining about taking your kids to public places. As a teacher I can tell you that field trips are much worse! 25 kids and only three adults to corral them. They have to be fed, taken to the bathroom, and shown an educational and enjoyable time – all of which is easier when the adults chill out and let the kids be kids.
So here is my final note on this episode – Jon, step up and put your foot down when it comes to Kate’s obsessive compulsive mandates. And Kate, quit your damn bitching! If you didn’t want to clean up after eight kids, you shouldn’t have had eight kids.
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23881. Summer
March 16, 2010 @ 1:19 pm
My blood pressure has gone through the roof. The House Democrats are planning on passing this bill without a formal vote. Once it has been “deemed” passed in the House, it goes to the Senate where it will be pushed through on reconciliation.
Why even have elections? Why even have a Congress? Why not just have a dictatorship? Wait a minute — we do, and Wind Tunnel has seen to it that she’s next in command.
I think that our country is going to see an uprising, the likes of which we have not seen before.
23882. Patty
March 16, 2010 @ 3:06 pm
Who does she think she is fooling?
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/16/kate-gosselin-to-critics-leave-me-alone/
“Kate is under a lot of pressure to make her mortgage payment and monthly bills,” sources tell Fox411. WHO ISN’T? Geez, she acts like she’s the only person on earth with bills and a mortgage. She needs to ask herself who was it that wanted the big house, yard, privacy, etc. So much for that, huh? Who is the one who stood in front of her kitchen window saying, “Mine, all mine, as far as the eye can see?” BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, KATE!!
“She considers herself a true single mom and she knows other mothers understand what she is going through. Her hope is that moms all over the country will be her support system and vote for her on ‘DWTS.’ She loves traveling and meeting women everywhere and she feels like mothers get what she’s doing - supporting her family.”
There’s that delusional “me, me, all me” shining through again. Could somebody please tell me what a “true” single mother is? WTF is that?
Does she really think that all the single moms out there are going to be watching and voting for her? My guess is that those “true single moms” out there will be bathing their children, getting them ready for bed, doing kids’ homework, doing laundry, and cleaning up the house.” Most “true single moms” don’t have a STAFF who does all that for them! Now THAT’S REALITY - being a “true single mom” and doing it all on your own!
I love this one, too:
“Kate loves having her hair done and being able to wear expensive clothes that she borrows, but she would trade it all for a small quiet life with the kids. She is trying to find creative avenues for work so she can be with the children and working at the same time. Kate is doing her best at keeping her family together and happy.”
So is she saying that her wardrobe is LEASED? If she has no friends, who is she “borrowing” the clothes from? What a CROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought she “does everything for her kids?” If so, why doesn’t it state up above that “the KIDS love having her get her hair and nails done, and borrowing $$$ clothes?”
“Trying to find creative ways to…” You can’t have your cake and eat it, too, Kate!
She says she would, so why doesn’t she “trade it all for a small, quiet life with her children?” WHY, KATE? Go ahead, do it! C’mon…let’s see you give it all up for a more modest lifestyle.
What a lying sack of *($*!@&# she is!
23883. havelotskids
March 16, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
Have to agree with you because if she were really ‘doing’ it all for the kids, they would prefer to have quiet, simple life with either mom and dad spending time with them and not a nanny; we would assume.
But you know the more I think about the above statement- do we really know what her children would prefer? Maybe they like their mom as much as she seems to like them-NOT.
23884. Patty
March 16, 2010 @ 3:54 pm
Comments from her South Bend, IN tour not so favorable:
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100313/News01/100319765/-1/XML&template=247art
How tacky can she be? She’s at a Women’s conference and brings up voting for her on DWTS. What a class act! NOT!
Here’s what one person wrote: “Memorial did great things - breast exams, glucose tests - really shouldn’t have someone like Kate Gosselin there. All I thought of while she was speaking was, what a mess your life is, then she pleaded for votes for Dancing with the Stars</strong>. That’s when I realized, this woman is not the mother she proclaims herself to be. She just wants to be a celebrity. Get over it, woman and raise the kids that you made and stop making society pay for them as you have from the beginning!!”
23885. Lauren
March 16, 2010 @ 4:01 pm
Patty, I really think that Kate is seriously worried about making a fool of herself next week and is desperate to get sympathy votes. Does she really expect people to believe that she loves traveling the country and meeting women (those ridiculous fans who annoyed her so much!) and why does the media not bring those past statements by her up right now? Any other person in the spotlight is taken apart by journalists and reporters. Kate is never asked why she contradicts her own statements and why her life choices do not reflect those of a mother “who wants a quiet life with my kids.”
Yeah, I think she’s angry, but it’s just a symptom of the real problem: FEAR. Kate’s always blamed everyone else for any failures on her part. This time it will just be all the “jellus” haters. LOL
23886. Jeanine
March 16, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
I see she is still traveling with her bodyguard. What is up with that? I guess if I were her and had as many people as she does that despise her I would have a bodyguard too!
For her to be at what appears to be a health expo doesn’t make much sense. We go to many health expos to learn about what is new in the diabetic world and get our hands on the freebies they have. I would be a little disappointed if I had to sit through listening to her instead of that time being filled with someone that could actually give me some valuable information.
23887. Patty
March 16, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
Lauren:
I read a book called, “The Achilles Syndrome.” In that book, there was a statement made that I think fits Kate to a tee.
“We often criticize things in others that we can’t accept in ourselves.”
Just my opinion, but I really think she is so insecure in her own life, that she has to blame everybody else for her own imperfections - alienated family members, divorced from her husband, drove all her friends away, etc. She’s always got an excuse.
1. Her parents just didn’t understand what needed to be done.
2. Jon just wasn’t…
3. Beth Carson got more sympathy for writing Kate’s book than Kate did for claiming to have written it!
Nana Janet, Miss Beverly, Nanny Joan & Mr. Terry, and on and on and on.
I think Achilles is right when it comes to that statement and Kate.
23888. Summer
March 16, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
It doesn’t matter what she has to say. She’s a draw. She’s a public figure. People go to those things to look at her — gawk — criticize, praise, whatever. It’s kind of like people rubbernecking at an accident — they want to see what the commotion is all about!
23889. Lynda
March 16, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
Jeanine
March 15, 2010 @ 7:58 am
Jeanine, Bret Michaels is a male ‘ho’!! LOL…he may have done a lot for diabetes, but have you seen him on Rock of Love???? I’ve caught glimpses of it, not my kind of show, but everything I read about it states he’s pretty much #$%@#$ all the gals! I believe the whole show is centered on him. He clearly doesn’t take good care of himself and his own diabetes. He was having some major problems on Celebrity Apprentice. I believe the men will get rid of him the first chance they get…they see him as a ‘weak’ player. I too have watched all the Apprentice shows, Celebrity or not. Actually, I think I prefer the non-celeb shows. Can anyone forget Omarosa? Plus, you know Bill Rancic, the first winner of Apprentice, has a reality show w/his wife, Julianna, who’s big on the E channel.
23890. Summer
March 16, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
Too bad he wasn’t a “real” person. As such, he might have had more wisdom to share! Where is the criticism quote written? In the Iliad?
23891. Jeanine
March 16, 2010 @ 4:43 pm
Agreed Lynda. I am shocked he hasn’t caught a disease. I did watch Rock of Love. I appreciate the fact that he has given a boat load of money to the JDRF and also sends tons of kids to diabetic camp each summer that wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford it. I think he is a mess with his own diabetes and don’t consider him a role model for my daughter by any stretch of the imagination. I do enjoy watching him for some unknown reason. He donated to a silent auction in California some years ago and I guess that is when I became interested in him. It will be interesting to see how he does on Celebrity Apprentice!
23892. Patty
March 16, 2010 @ 5:06 pm
No, Summer, as I said before, the citation…
“We often criticize things in others that we can’t accept in ourselves”
…was in a book called, “The Achilles Syndrome - Transforming Weaknesses into Strength” written by Harold Bloomfield.
23893. Valerie
March 16, 2010 @ 5:28 pm
hahaha I couldn’t agree more. I also caught a bit of Rock of Love, and thought the same exact thing.
23894. Patty
March 16, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
Summer: Here’s the exact reference in “Achilles Syndrome: Transforming Weakness into Strength” by Harold Bloomfield - page 83.
“Often we criticize in others the things we can’t accept in ourselves.”
23895. Lynda
March 16, 2010 @ 8:31 pm
This is just a test…ignore