Jon & Kate Plus 8 ATE MY TV!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I may "PO" some of you off out there that like this show but I can't tell you how tired I am of seeing commercials & actual new stories about this show, this couple & all the other crap that goes along with it! I mean, I really don't quite understand what it is that makes people want to watch this scenario. Is it that it makes you feel better about your life? Is it just an escape but you don't take it seriously? Do they seem hugely insincere to you? I have my one daily soap opera for escape but it seems like this Jon & Kate thing is like watching a train wreck but with a family. I want to pull my hair out every time something comes on about that show & that is often. I should be bald by now!I have not watched any of this show, not even from day one when things were good so.... Yup, I know the money. I wonder, what would I do for enough money to clear up my probs. I don't think I would sell my soul but if presented, I just don't know what I would do. I hope I would take the high road!
Anyway, I think about all the pressures on people with kids on top of work & everything else. Moms are notorious for putting themselves last for sure!!! On that note, check out this article about Creating a Balance in Your Life. I think it is good for anyone in need, not just moms.
I may "PO" some of you off out there that like this show but I can't tell you how tired I am of seeing commercials & actual new stories about this show, this couple & all the other crap that goes along with it! I mean, I really don't quite understand what it is that makes people want to watch this scenario. Is it that it makes you feel better about your life? Is it just an escape but you don't take it seriously? Do they seem hugely insincere to you? I have my one daily soap opera for escape but it seems like this Jon & Kate thing is like watching a train wreck but with a family. I want to pull my hair out every time something comes on about that show & that is often. I should be bald by now!I have not watched any of this show, not even from day one when things were good so.... Yup, I know the money. I wonder, what would I do for enough money to clear up my probs. I don't think I would sell my soul but if presented, I just don't know what I would do. I hope I would take the high road!Anyway, I think about all the pressures on people with kids on top of work & everything else. Moms are notorious for putting themselves last for sure!!! On that note, check out this article about Creating a Balance in Your Life. I think it is good for anyone in need, not just moms.
Creating a Balance in Your Life
Mothers tend to give so much of themselves, and in the process, can lose their sense of identity. The following are suggestions to help create balance and harmony in your life.
- Appreciate your abilities as a mother.
- Forgive yourself; even mothers make mistakes. Do the best you can with the options on your plate.
- Be aware that you are a role model; you are teaching your children with your actions, and behaviors every day, and they don’t miss a trick.
- Be content as a person. Handle your responsibilities with dignity.
- Accept your own worth, and raise your children to respect and appreciate women AND men as equals.
- Stay engaged with other family members, and friends — especially your girlfriends.
- Stay interested in the world around you. Try something new.
- Take a vacation with your spouse, or with friends, or both.
- Join a group or club that allows you to participate in a sport or activity that takes place outside of your house; preferably in the great outdoors. Nature is the best healer.
- Communicate, share, and laugh about your experiences with others. Even crying with other women can smooth out the ragged edges of your nerves when you hit particularly rough patches of motherhood.
- Keep your primary relationship (your spouse, or partner) on track. As overwhelming, all-consuming and exhausting as parenting can be, you need to keep your couple connection strong.
- Plan dates to have one-on-one adult time.
- Don’t lose your sense of humor.
OK, hit me up with your thoughts & opinions on Jon & Kate Plus 8. Also, any more suggestions for balancing your life? Me, I make sure that exercise is part of it for me because it helps work off stress. Also, after years of NOT, I do take time to "veg" and not feel guilty about it! Doesn't that pic look fun & relaxing! NO GUILT about relaxing!
Hopefully I will have pics of the "crazy kids" as I like to call them after they head back home & my hubby has the time to put the pics in a format that my tech starved self can handle!!!
Hopefully I will have pics of the "crazy kids" as I like to call them after they head back home & my hubby has the time to put the pics in a format that my tech starved self can handle!!!
I watched the show when it first came on, but sometime during the second season, Kate severed my last nerve and I quit watching. And that's okay, because there are plenty of other channels without Kate, right? WRONG. She's on EVERY.SINGLE.CHANNEL now. I've actually thought about writing to the HGTV people and telling them if they want Kate to talk about home decorating, fine; otherwise, get her the #^*@ off their network.
Okay. I'm better now. I think I will de-stress from even thinking about That Woman by going for my walk. Thank you for letting me vent.
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Oh, Cammy, thank you for this comment! I LOVED IT! Yes, get her off our TV!
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This is a very good list that I need to study and apply to my own life! I can't think of anything else to add off the top of my head.
As for Jon & Kate, I stopped watching about 2 years ago, although I did watch the episode where they made their big announcement, but I TiVO'd it so I could just skip to that part without having to deal with the entire show.
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Jody,
You are a wonderful role model for women! Your blog is well done - intelligent. I really like your "creating balance" for women.
Thanks,
Liz
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Amen sister! Finally! I am sooo with you on this whole Jon & Kate thing. I have never liked the show and felt it was horrible for them to even exploit their children like that. I have been in many of debates with my friends who adore the show, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it! It really breaks my heart that 8 little innocent kiddies will be sorely effected by this whole situation. UGH so sick of them!
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i watched it here and there when it first came out. i think kate's the C word and jon's a saint for putting up with her for 10 yrs. i'm sure the show started off as just a tool to help them support themselves, but kate seems to use the kids to exploit them, and jon to me genuinely seems to care. when they are with him, they are dressed however, but if kate takes them out in public, they all have to have the perfect lil matching attire. it's her little money making circus.
as far as getting kate to reveal her decorating ideas.. whatever. if i had all that cash, i'd suddenly be a friggin home decor guru too!!!
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I totally agree! I have never once seen the show but thanks to the omnipresent media coverage, now know everything about them. Enough already!
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I am so with you Jody. I have never watched the show, never. Yet, I know more about them than I do most of you. I can't believe a set of parents would put their children though what it must take to do the show, and all the promoting of it. Very greedy, selfish people.
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I confess, I loved the show. Definitely past tense. This is just sad and the kids should not be put in this situation. I have always raged about the way Kate treated Jon, though. Enough of the sitcoms have controlling women and make the man look like an idiot, we don't need it in reality. I LOVED it when Emeril told Kate to leave Jon alone when he was making granola. She tries to control EVERYTHING. But the kids are sooooo adorable, I really do like watching them interact with each other.
And when they had those six kids at once, Jon was losing his job and they were in pretty bad straits. They didn't have the kids just to get the reality show. That came quite a bit later and has helped them provide for all 8 of those kids.
But can we stop treating families who have a lot of children as freaks????? We had a lot of families in our church in TX who had 6 or more kids. One at a time. And they did it because they consider children a gift from God.
And the show that bugs me the most? Those "REAL" housewives. Give me a BREAK! Those b*tches are not housewives, they are conniving, back-stabbing, worst examples of women EVER. But I guess "conflict" and "betrayal" are what sells nowadays, with sex, of course.
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Hello, first time I've been to your site. I just wanted to say that I think it's ironic what has happened to JaK+8; I like to watch a show that comes on right after JaK and once in a while I would catch snippets of it while waiting. I was amazed at how badlyt the parents treated each other and started watching out of fascination. When this whole debacle started a few months ago I was surprised to actually feel a bit of an attachment to the people and feel bad for what was happening.
Shrug. In general I feel bad for them but I'm still not interested in absorbing ever minute detail of their lives, and their show definitely didn't give me an interest in the other 20 TLC shows about ridiculously huge families.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I like your blog.
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