From the article:
The issue hits newsstands Friday but an advance copy says both Jon and Kate Gosselin partiially ignored their children at a Manhattan photo shoot last weekend and the kids were forced to work until 9 p.m. posing for pictures.
The cable network TLC organized the shoot, which also feature stars from The Little People, another reality show.
Eyewitnesses told Us Magazine the children were visibly upset at the photo shoot, and on the long drive from Reading, Pa., to New York, Kate left the kids in a luxury van at a rest stop while she ran into Starbucks.
Ok....define "partially ignored" for me. I happen to do this (by my definition) many times throughout the day. I cannot listen to whining and fighting all day long nor the constant chatter of either of my kids. Call me a bad mom if you must - but I don't give them 100% of my full attention all day long. I guess I don't see what the huge issue is with that part. Now, if they were obviously ignoring the kids and they were fighting or someone was going to be hurt, then that's another story. To me, it's ok to ignore some whinning and endless "why" questions that seem to come from my kids. I would think it even more so "easy" to ignore them if it's not "your" day with them or they're asking you things you honestly can't/don't want to answer. Jon was also out with Hailey before or after the photo shoot so I'm sure Jon coming in smelling like her didn't help matters at all (I can just imagine Jon coming in smelling like some prefume factory to either cover up the "girl" smell or lipstick on his collar or something.....just to get Kate).
"Working" also needs to be defined....I make my kids stand for countless pictures too and don't pay them a cent. Now, it's not every day but I also don't have an agreement with a tv company that they're allowed to tape or photograph my kids. I also don't know what time of the day they started "working". I think I read in an article here that they got to the studio at like 2 right? (I could be confusing that with something else) So that's 7 hours. Now honestly I can't see them taking pictures of those kids for 7 hours straight either. I'm sure the kids had some "down time". What that consisted of I'm not really sure....I do think the kids are all old enough to stand for a few photographs though without whining and fussing (not saying they didn't do this by any means) but more than an hour or so IMO would be a bit much (I'm thinking maybe a couple of family pictures, just the girls, just the twins, just the boys, ect during the hour).
And wouldn't it be easier to have Kate leave the kids in the car with the two helpers that were with her instead of hauling 8 kids into Starbucks? It seems like they all go enough that she'd know what they all wanted by this point. It never says she didn't get them anything - it just says she ran in.....and they must have fancy rest stops up there because I have yet to see one with a Starbucks in it!
Sorry for the nitpicking today....I guess I'm overly grouchy or something! I truly hope the kids wound up having a good time and that it was nothing more than "regular" kid temper tantrums.
, it brings back bad middle school memories 
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