The Duggars family TV show premieres this Sat.

[Sandcass]

I agree. They'll end up coming home with boyfriends like this:

..... ..... ..... .....

 

[hentob]

And DH and I lost it when she interrupted the building process to define the word "perpendicular" and then made the kids repeat it. Weird!

And all I could think of was "Perpendicular to WHAT!?!??!"--What the heck was she teaching them? Just saying "Now children, that is perpendicular--Can you all say perpendicular?"

Can something just _be_ "perpendicular"? Doesn't have to be "perpendicular" to SOMETHING


Did she mean to say "vertical"? I dunno. Maybe she isn't bright enough to be home schooling--I mean anyone that has been quoted as saying "We try to buy as many frozen burritos as possible"

 

[DVCLiz]

I think she meant the steel beam was perpendicular to the floor.....


The certainly did have a lot of frozen and canned food, didn't they?

 

[CherCrazy]

Here we go... a quote from their website.

"We desire for each child to develop a learning spirit & a servant’s heart that looks for opportunities to serve others."

They obviously take this goal seriously as they have turned their children into their own personal SERVANTS. Why the heck would you have kids if you are not going to take care of them yourself?????

 

[MAKmom]

I agree. They'll end up coming home with boyfriends like this:

Anne

What is that!!!![/SIZE]

 

[Beth76]

OK first things first....those kids are pretty cute. Especially the smaller ones.

I noticed all the product placement too. And the one girl doing 10 loads of laundry a day! I can't do 10 loads of laundry a day.

I noticed on this episode they showed the girls helping with the house. I'm pretty sure in the last episode, the girls went nowhere near the construction of the house. And I loved the "perpendicular" comment. Let's make sure America knows that they teach real things too.

Did anyone else notice all the juice in the pantry at the new house. They had a ton of it and that stuff isn't cheap. I guess that's their one attempt at being normal.

 

[CherCrazy]

I can't resist


"We have heart to heart talks with each of the older children regularly" = They don't have time to talk to the younger ones.

"9:00p.m. is Bible time with Daddy. This is probably our favorite time of day." = No more chores.

"Often our little ones will fall asleep as Daddy begins Bible time" = because they are exhausted from all the work they had to do all day.

"They started learning self-control & obedience by sitting quietly on a blanket playing with a few toys. The key words are ‘sit’ & ‘quiet’!" = same words most people use to direct their dogs.

"We desire for our children to be responsible so we are training them to ‘replace’ us." = the excuse used to get the older kids to take care of the younger ones, and do the laundry, and the cooking, etc.

"Our children have grown up not watching broadcast television" = but they'll take money from TLC to be on television.

"We don’t have little ones tearing up the house as often & getting into things while we are busy. " = they are ALONE, still sitting on the blanket.

It's so sad.

 

[tar heel]

I have no doubt that that juice was FREE, so I don't think it makes them in any way normal. It was Campbell's brand, just like the hundreds of cans of soup. The bread products were all Pepperidge Farm, too.

Seeing those girls "building" the house while wearing their "modest" jumpers while the boys wore jeans (but with collar shirts!) was just too much. It reminded me of the families at WDW on a hot summer day with mom and daughters covered head to toe and dad and boys wearing shorts.

 

[ducklite]

I'm watching now. Letting the kids watch arc welding without goggles? Are they nuts?!?!

Anne

 

[Beth76]

I have no doubt that that juice was FREE, so I don't think it makes them in any way normal. It was Campbell's brand, just like the hundreds of cans of soup. The bread products were all Pepperidge Farm, too.

Oh you're right. I picked up on the other product placement, but not the food.

 

[ducklite]

What is that!!!![/SIZE]

Do you really want to know?

Anne

 

[Snow_White]

Speaking of the poor laundry servant, Jessa....check out this text written by the mom (presumably before the laundry servant was assigned the laundry "jurisdiction"): http://www.duggarfamily.com/mothers.php. Well, it looks like Mom has found a new sucker for the 10 loads of laundry so she doesn't have to stay up all night doing it herself....her daughter

CherCrazy, your translations seem pretty accurate to me!

 

[mylilnikita]

Can you say: He++ NO!!

 

[Free4Life11]

"Which is perpendicular. Everyone say perpendicular."

My God...jurisdictions? Buddy systems? This is just CREEPY! People can live however they want, but this were pretty out there!

 

[Albertan mom]

Just finished watching the show.

A few things:

Yes, I agree, mom definately needs a new hairdo!!

The kids seemed normal to me. Smiley, happy, children. They are learning alot by helping build the house. They also seem very well behaved, not running amuck causing chaos.

The mom seems very nice, softspoken, but not strange.

The girls wearing the long dresses is a little strange though. Let them wear some pants!

The house was beautiful.

Yes, lots of product placement!!

The kids are very very cute. That last baby was beautiful!

I hear lots of comments on here about them being 'cultlike' but I didn't hear anything on this show to back that up. They didn't talk about strict rules, anything 'innapropriate', and I didn't hear them say one thing about God.
(The dad also said "We have land IF they choose to settle down here someday")

Just because someone chooses to live their life differently then you, doesn't make them strange, cultlike, abused, servants/slaves, weird, socially inept, and all the other comments that were made on here.

Is this going to be a regular weekly show, or just the one from tonight?

 

[graygables]

OK, it's like a train wreck and I *HAD* to watch the whole thing!

The mom hugged the designer more than once and in ALL the shows I've seen on this family has never EVER hugged a child. If you watched carefully, a few of the little boys ran to her when she walked in the room, but she stepped back. The girls didn't even bother to try for a hug. Maybe we're just hug-a-holics at my house, but my girls hug me before they go out to play, when they come back in, first thing in the morning, last thing at night and umpteen times in between. As much as the cameras are on that family, you'd think they'd catch ONE.

There was one girl during the "music scene" (BTW, the older ones are responsible for teaching the younger ones violin, too) that was NOT smiling. If you look carefully in their eyes, they are not happy as they get older, they know they are not in a normal situation, but they are trapped. Their reactions are all very scripted and I believe that Marketing 101 as well as Theater 201 must be among the subjects they are taught. I know homeschooled kids who are bright, articulate, and well-mannered, but have a depth of passion in their eyes that these kids simply do not have. They have been on camera so much, they should join SAG.

I'm glad we live in a country where people can rear their children in the manner they see fit. BUT, I'm sad that we live in a country that has people that are so far out in right field and drag their children along with them, then have the nerve to stage a giant publicity stunt complete with free *everything* (it took 3 or 4 "pages" for TLC to list all the companies to whom "consideration" was owed )

If you want to raise your kids on a compound and "protect" them from the world, whatever, but don't *USE* them for your own personal gain. KWIM? BTW, my SIL goes to a pizza place every Sunday and gets them to "donate" a pizza to her church. She then takes it back and feeds her own family of 8 with it. She tells people that they are poor when my brother *rakes* in the bucks, so they give her things. There was a woman in their church who was financially needy, but the preacher preached on the widow's mite (woman giving her last pennies) and this woman went to my SIL and gave her what she had in her wallet b/c she thought my B and SIL were worse off than her...and SIL KEPT THE MONEY!!! Maybe b/c I'm so familiar with this kind of person (my DH's sister is another one...) that I'm so turned off by the Duggar's and don't want people to be suckered in by what they are seeing (smiling kids do not necessarily equal happy kids)

 

[Lachesis00]

Did they tone down their website? I thought there were more stories and photos a couple years ago.

 

[cstraub]

Spring is coming early here in Ohio. Was just awakened by terrible lighting.

After watching this at 12am I think I dreamed about this family all night... or was it a nightmare?

A couple of things came to mind while watching the show. One was how they did not know where the children were with all the hired workers that could be found all over the place. Did we not learn our lesson a few years ago when we watched Elizabeth Smart being kidknapped out fo her bedroom window by a worker that her father had hired to work on their house?

Also, did anyone see one of the little boys jumping on the top bunk bed that did not have a side rail?

Next, how about their trips to the stores? Were the parents even aware that they had a trail of 15 children behind them? I don't let my kids out of my sight when we go out anywhere!

In general it seemed the parents really did not know where their children were or who they were with. I would not let my daughter around that "Paul Bunyan" type by herself. I just think when you have that many you can't possibly watch them as closely as you should.

One other thought, who in the family is in charge of the baby not going down the two story slide?

 

[Galahad]

How can you draw so many conclusions about what these folks do when they are not not on camera based on the very short time they are on camera?

 

[Buckalew11]

How can you draw so many conclusions about what these folks do when they are not not on camera based on the very short time they are on camera?

I agree.

And as an above said it reminds them of someone in their family who takes and takes. I think that is what people are doing--or it is just such a different lifestyle from their own that they think it is weird.

I live nothing like these people do but I will not give them "what for" for doing it their way. I think the kids seemed happy and well adjusted. Years ago, when people had big families, this was how life was. Now maybe it isn't what we're used to now but ask any old person from a bog family and they'll tell you that life was very similar to this family's lifestyle. I think those kids will grow up and find that adjusting to the real world is no big deal.

There are many many more kids out there who are neglected who would love to be in a "working family" like this one.