Yeah, I think April is like 38. Drugs are bad, mmmkay?
I absolutely agree Farrah uses Sophia to manipulate her parents. The difference imo is that Farrah does it directly to her parents - it's between them. Maci uses Bentley himself and I find it not only worse but really gross.
The stuff like having Bentley leave Kyle the phone message, telling Bentley that he can look like his father but don't think like him, beaming when Bentley called Kyle 'daddy' without correcting him, telling Bentley to say stuff to Ryan during their little meetings all the time; gross.
As to the proof that Maci is a good parent being in Bentley seeming a happy, well-adjusted toddler, I'd say they have likely nothing to do with one another.
First, Ryan has him like 3 days a week, so he'd be just as responsible as Maci. Second - Caitlin and Tyler. The two of them grew up around Butch and April - immature, drug addicted, apparently fairly useless as heck parents. They seem both happy and well-adjusted. Sorry, I'm very much nature.
As for Maci's parenting decisions like dropping the pacifier - he's still got it in this week's episode, pretty perpetually and without any comment from her so that went well. The daycare to preschool I failed to understand.
She's sending him to preschool so she wanted to send him to daycare so he'd be around kids... but previously, we saw her not want him to go to daycare. Aside from all of that, is there no play group in all of Chattanooga? Library story hour? Etc.
Farrah's job, to me, makes her a much better role model for a few reasons. First, she's perpetually held jobs AND been in school. Maci has managed neither.
Second, Maci appears to have gotten this gig fairly recently, in the show timeline. We've certainly never heard about it before (and it's possible Farrah does the same thing, as why wouldn't she? Though for the purposes of discussion, since Maci has said it and Farrah hasn't, assuming Maci does and she doesn't.).
It's not that I'm against public speaking as a thing (though I do think it's laughable that Maci is doing this particular gig), but that I think that the role model aspect of jobs is about work ethic and maybe doing things that you don't love because that's how you climb the ladder and get experience and etc.
It's not as if Maci is Captain Sullenberger, or a former cabinet member, who is now doing speaking gigs as a result of her accomplishments. She's got the gig because she was too dumb to use birth control. It's ... whatever, it's fine, but it's not exactly 'this is my career.' I don't think she'll still be talking to teens about using birth control in 10 years, because she'll be 30 and unrelatable. Hence... get a job Maci.
Neither Sophia nor Bentley know what their parents do for a living right now, but very soon they will and by the time they're aware, one may be able to say 'I worked my way up and went to school at the same time because... so...' and the other will be Maci who still probably won't have a degree or a job.
I absolutely agree Farrah uses Sophia to manipulate her parents. The difference imo is that Farrah does it directly to her parents - it's between them. Maci uses Bentley himself and I find it not only worse but really gross.
The stuff like having Bentley leave Kyle the phone message, telling Bentley that he can look like his father but don't think like him, beaming when Bentley called Kyle 'daddy' without correcting him, telling Bentley to say stuff to Ryan during their little meetings all the time; gross.
As to the proof that Maci is a good parent being in Bentley seeming a happy, well-adjusted toddler, I'd say they have likely nothing to do with one another.
First, Ryan has him like 3 days a week, so he'd be just as responsible as Maci. Second - Caitlin and Tyler. The two of them grew up around Butch and April - immature, drug addicted, apparently fairly useless as heck parents. They seem both happy and well-adjusted. Sorry, I'm very much nature.
As for Maci's parenting decisions like dropping the pacifier - he's still got it in this week's episode, pretty perpetually and without any comment from her so that went well. The daycare to preschool I failed to understand.
She's sending him to preschool so she wanted to send him to daycare so he'd be around kids... but previously, we saw her not want him to go to daycare. Aside from all of that, is there no play group in all of Chattanooga? Library story hour? Etc.
Farrah's job, to me, makes her a much better role model for a few reasons. First, she's perpetually held jobs AND been in school. Maci has managed neither.
Second, Maci appears to have gotten this gig fairly recently, in the show timeline. We've certainly never heard about it before (and it's possible Farrah does the same thing, as why wouldn't she? Though for the purposes of discussion, since Maci has said it and Farrah hasn't, assuming Maci does and she doesn't.).
It's not that I'm against public speaking as a thing (though I do think it's laughable that Maci is doing this particular gig), but that I think that the role model aspect of jobs is about work ethic and maybe doing things that you don't love because that's how you climb the ladder and get experience and etc.
It's not as if Maci is Captain Sullenberger, or a former cabinet member, who is now doing speaking gigs as a result of her accomplishments. She's got the gig because she was too dumb to use birth control. It's ... whatever, it's fine, but it's not exactly 'this is my career.' I don't think she'll still be talking to teens about using birth control in 10 years, because she'll be 30 and unrelatable. Hence... get a job Maci.
Neither Sophia nor Bentley know what their parents do for a living right now, but very soon they will and by the time they're aware, one may be able to say 'I worked my way up and went to school at the same time because... so...' and the other will be Maci who still probably won't have a degree or a job.
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