Little People, Big World ~ Season 6 ~

[PrincessKsMom]

I missed last night's episode, but it sounds like quite the wild ride. I think if J&Z go away to college, M&A are going to be getting lots of phone calls about bad behavior, failing grades and a total lack of responsibility. It's a shame because I think they both have huge potential, but a lack of ambition.

 

[TaraPA]

I think they live at home while going to Community College - if you read the whole season's episode guide on TLC.com, for one of the epsidoes it says that they all realize that they're not prepared for college & missed the boat on applying to go away to school, or something to that affect. Not sure if that meant time-wise they didn't get their apps in on time, or grade-wise. I suspect both!

 

[momrek06]

I used to think that Matt & Amy weren't on the same "page", but after watching the most recent episode, I don't think they're even reading the same book !!

ITA.

I think they live at home while going to Community College - if you read the whole season's episode guide on TLC.com, for one of the epsidoes it says that they all realize that they're not prepared for college & missed the boat on applying to go away to school, or something to that affect. Not sure if that meant time-wise they didn't get their apps in on time, or grade-wise. I suspect both!

Really. Good, because I would hate to hear the Roloffs paid all this $$$ for the twins to go away to college only to flunk out!!

Let me say my DBro was pretty wild in h.s. He did not break any laws just a real party kid. Barely graduating. He chose the Army. He went in for 3 years and came out a very mature young man. Went on to community college for 2years and then onto Northeastern University (GI bill). He went back into the Army as an Officer after graduation and today many years later he is a COLONEL USARMY on the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.

Believe it or not watching all that bad behavior with the running AMUCK in the house last night and the grades....I did think of my DBro. There is hope for everyone.

Maybe the military is a thought.

 

[KAMLEM]

Did you hear Zac ask his mom, "if dad had someone come in and clean his room?" Amy actually said yes.

I think she just said that because she was the one that took his chair out to get it reupholstered. She didn't want him to keep asking questions.

 

[momrek06]

I think she just said that because she was the one that took his chair out to get it reupholstered. She didn't want him to keep asking questions.

Oh...I saw/heard that BUT did you look at Zach's room? After he asked Amy that and she said yes, I rewound the show a few times to see his room and it was still one big MESS. ITA, I think she just said that to him to throw him off.

 

[DMRick]

It really wasn't much fun to watch this past show. Amy is so disrespected.

 

[barkley]

i just could'nt believe how the twins were so clueless about college they did'nt seem to have any idea what getting a degree entails or that you can't just pick 2 totaly unrelated careers (auto mechanics and sports managment) and get some kind of hybrid degree. zach seemed so shocked to find out that he could'nt teach 'prarie style' and just show up and become an instant teacher at a school somewhere with no education and skills

matt and amy did'nt seem much more adept at it-they know the twins don't have great grades but they were encouraging them to plan a trip to visit and submit applications to u.c.l.a. (and matt was talking pepperdine) talk about unrealistic expectations/setting your kid up for disappointment. then when the subject of weather their gpa's and sat scores would qualify them for some of these schools and amy says something about they would need to work on getting them higher-UUUUUUUM, the show was obviously filmed around christmas of last year (tree in the background), it was their senior year-just how does she think when college applications are traditionaly submitted in the early part of the senior year those kids can bring their gpa's up enough to qualify with just one semester of highschool left???? and esp. with zach pulling all those d's (and man, if you've gotten on academic probation such that you can't play sports your grades have to be pretty darn low to begin with).


it was good to see their dd working with the youngest on his homework, maybe there's hope for the 2 of them to do well academicly (thought molly was pretty perceptive in her analysis of why she does better than her older brothers and how it's based on her choice to apply herself whereas they just don't realy care).

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

It really wasn't much fun to watch this past show. Amy is so disrespected.

I admit to not having had a chance to watch this week's shows yet. However, there have been many times that Amy disrespects Matt as well. I have noticed that she tends to pull the kids into it too, like it is all of them against Matt. She especially tends to do this with Zach as they laugh behind Matt's back. Parents should always put up a united front with the kids. As another poster pointed out, Amy wants to be their friend too much.

Judging by the posts this week it sounds like Amy & Matt aren't getting along still. It saddens me to think they are growing apart and if the show keeps focusing on Matt & Amy's issues with no hope, I think I may have to pass.

I don't want to watch another family self-destruct.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I have watched this show a lot with the kids but they watch it way more. My DD was teling me that Amy & Matt talked about divorce a couple of times in the past few shows. It this true?

 

[OhMari]

I have watched this show a lot with the kids but they watch it way more. My DD was teling me that Amy & Matt talked about divorce a couple of times in the past few shows. It this true?

They have jokingly said it between them,
like, "if I don't do this, she will divorce me."


I wondered why Amy was making them visit the colleges.
She herself went to Central Michigan and she knows you had to have good grades by your Junior year. Colleges want your grade point average to be up there and by your Senior year, you are suppose to be maintaining that grade point average. I'm wondering if she thought the schools would accept them, for who they are.

Amy doesn't seem the type that would do that, but you never know. I thought by the end, she was trying to tell or prove to them, college wasn't going to happen.

I wonder if Matt had his surgery, since the show was taped over a year ago.

 

[momrek06]

Ok this show is turning into a real trainwreck..........

Last nights episodes were unsettling to say the least. What is going on with the Roloffs??? Come on, we have been seeing families breaking up all over reality tv and now these two are just not seeing eye to eye on anything.

Matt plans the trip knowing Amy's schedule OR she and he will have to agree to disagree on that....but to pay for 5 family members to go to the BVI and only 3 went....wow, must be nice to have that kind of money to throw around. For Zach and Molly to have boycotted the trip was STUPID. Just because Amy could not go......

The trip did look wonderful. How beautiful is the BVI!!!!!

Any other DISer's watch....what was your take on the whole trip and not going....?

 

[cepmom]

I watched last night also and I am sad to see that the tension between Amy and Matt seems to be growing. I still can't believe he went through with the trip without Amy. There would be serious problems here if I did that and left DH at home or vice versa. The trip should have been rescheduled so that the whole family could go. it's sad to see Zach and Molly boycott the trip as well; I do see Zach's side though. It does seem to be Matt fulfilling his dreams and dragging his family along for the ride regardless of how they feel. I hope they can work through it...nobody needs another reality family to self destruct on TV

 

[allison443]

I saw most of last night's show, it was uncomfortable. My heart went out to Jacob when he said how at home Jeremy is mean to him but on the trip, Jeremy treated him like a friend. Aww.

I have to ask this, at one point Amy was saying how Matt was in a certain frame of mind one night, and when he is in this certain frame of mind, the kids know, and it is hard to talk to him..what was she talking about? It sounded like he was drinking or something.

I have only watched the show occasionally/recently so I don't know if I was missing something.

 

[DSNLvR]

The whole vacation thing was just stupid and I think Zach is a bit of a drama queen/cry baby - he is VERY immature. I think Amy sucks the kids into her fights with Matt and tries to be their friend more than their mother. She allows those kids to destroy that beautiful house Matt built for all of them just so her kids friends will want to be there? I cant believe she is okay with her children and their friends trashing that house. You can have fun and still treat someones house with respect. Those kids are spoiled and ungrateful for everything that man does for them.


I really feel for Matt. I think he tries to give those kids a good life and he gets no thanks or respect in return - not from the kids and not from Amy.

 

[OhMari]

I am usually on Amy's side of things, but she scheduled a conference or talk in Wisconsin during the kids spring break. I have no clue where, because I don't remember reading or seeing her in our state last spring. But she was upset, that Matt didn't look at her schedule, to see if she was gone. She was going on and on about how she has been scheduling the kids schedule from day one. So, why did she schedule the appearance when the kids had spring break. Matt choose that week, because of the kids spring break.

Amy was sort of in the wrong. Yes, she was hurt that Matt wouldn't cancel the trip, but Amy could of broke the contract, unless it meant a heavy fine or she had to give back the money. It irked me a little that she was asking Zack, Molly, then Jacob, what they were going to do, if they made a decision. Heck, Jake is what 10, 11. She was almost asking them to take sides with her, to me, she was putting the kids in a very awkward situation.

In the end Matt asked his dad, best friend and he let Jeremy ask his best friend and called it a "boys only trip", even before Molly made her decision. Amy caught Matt saying it, and called him on it. I sort of felt bad for Molly, you knew she wanted to go, but stayed home with Zack.

 

[DSNLvR]

I admit to not having had a chance to watch this week's shows yet. However, there have been many times that Amy disrespects Matt as well. I have noticed that she tends to pull the kids into it too, like it is all of them against Matt. She especially tends to do this with Zach as they laugh behind Matt's back. Parents should always put up a united front with the kids. As another poster pointed out, Amy wants to be their friend too much.

Judging by the posts this week it sounds like Amy & Matt aren't getting along still. It saddens me to think they are growing apart and if the show keeps focusing on Matt & Amy's issues with no hope, I think I may have to pass.

I don't want to watch another family self-destruct.

I totally agree she wants to be their buddy and doesn't seem to do much parenting at all.

 

[C.Ann]

Last night was pretty bad.. I really don't think Amy and Matt's marriage is going to survive..

Amy sounded very, very angry last night (in a controlled manner) and Matt seemed to be focusing on two things: the sympathy card and trying to guilt his two kids into going on that trip..

I would not be surprised if these two divorce..

 

[Seahunt]

I kind of understood where Amy was coming from about Matt's vacation excitement because I remembered watching the episode where she had planned the big family vacation and Matt was such a pain and couldn't wait to get back to the farm (and left early). It seems like it was a scheduling problem (pumpkin season) that caused all the tension then too.

JMO but I think Amy just wants to simply feel that Matt cares about her. I don't think she has much say in any of his plans - well, she says but he doesn't listen - and he pretty much is on his own path. I don't know if they'll split up, but it seems like it's coming to a point where they will have to decide their future.

The person I feel sorriest for is Jacob. Did you notice how sad he seems?

 

[DWGal210]

Ugh, it would make me sick to my stomach if these 2 divorced. Yet another family on TV that's torn apart.

Now, Amy was on the Rachael Ray show a few weeks ago, and Matt was with her; they didn't of course as her any questions about the marriage, but they both were there and seemed in good spirits.

 

[DSNLvR]

I kind of understood where Amy was coming from about Matt's vacation excitement because I remembered watching the episode where she had planned the big family vacation and Matt was such a pain and couldn't wait to get back to the farm (and left early). It seems like it was a scheduling problem (pumpkin season) that caused all the tension then too.

JMO but I think Amy just wants to simply feel that Matt cares about her. I don't think she has much say in any of his plans - well, she says but he doesn't listen - and he pretty much is on his own path. I don't know if they'll split up, but it seems like it's coming to a point where they will have to decide their future.

The person I feel sorriest for is Jacob. Did you notice how sad he seems?

I noticed this as well. I feel awful for him. He seems very confused and withdrawn. I am glad he went on the trip I think he had an awesome time.