I am not a fan of reality shows. I remember when I was pregnant with my youngest child, back in 1999, the biggest thing back then were these message boards. At the time it was on a website called ParentSoup, and now it is part of iVillage. I don’t participate much at all now, but at the time all the moms were talking about watching a show called “A Baby Story.”
The moms would watch it constantly. I don’t even know what channel it was on. Nowadays it seems like there is this HUGE amount of reality TV, especially on a channel called “TLC” which stands for The Learning Channel. I like to watch a show called What Not to Wear, and it comes on right after a show called “John and Kate Plus 8.” So since our TIVO is a few minutes off, whenever I record What Not to Wear I get a few minutes of the end of John and Kate, so I got intrigued. So one day I recorded it and wow. The mom had only 2 pregnancies – one resulted in twins and the other in sextuplets. So they have 8 kids.
I have gotten a bit hooked on it. I am just amazed at how they manage to keep track of 8 kids, and know a lot about the unique qualities of each one. I would just be completely overwhelmed with 8 kids.
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Bean // November 1, 2008 at 12:29 am
Yikes, that is almost beyond my comprehension. I used to nanny 5 kids way back and that was enough to make me debate my sanity on a fairly regular basis. I had them spread out between two families with 4 years age span between the youngest and oldest. I am wondering if having so many at the same development stage would be easier or harder.