Wife Swap last night...

[pattyT]

THAT was SCARY!
I am glad all those kids are sleeping in their own rooms though! Afraid of a pencil??? goes on the date with her daughter -
sad part is I thought she was the 'normal one' in the beginning of the show! Then all these neurotic issues kept coming out - one more bizzare after the next!
To say to the daughters date at the restraunt - Let me smell your hands and then put antibacterial crap on them!
A coffin for a cell phone (all though I do agree that mom needed to spend more time with the kiddo's - but not THAT much time!

I feel sooo NORMAL now!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Which family are you speaking of?

I didn't watch--but it was a homeschool family and another family, right?

 

[darrose]

Her children seemed like happy, loved, normal she must be doing somethings right. Plus she seemed to have the more lovable hubby I thought it was funny when the other hubby was upset over losing the tv. (really cant he do without tv for a few days? LOL)

 

[pattyT]

Her children seemed like happy, loved, normal she must be doing somethings right. Plus she seemed to have the more lovable hubby I thought it was funny when the other hubby was upset over losing the tv. (really cant he do without tv for a few days? LOL)

Yes Lisa that was the family -
I agree they seemed like... how could they know any different though - XTREMELY sheltered - and in my life I have found those kids that were the most sheltered caused the most chaos when they got older and were finally 'free'
I agree the tv thing was ridiculous...
the shopping crap in the tubs was hilarious and ridiculous too!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

That is ashame then. I guess it is about showing extreme family situations--but what a way to stereotype a small percentage of the population.

I didn't watch it, so I cannot otherwise comment on it.

 

[eeyore kelly]

Iwatched it last night. I think the dad of the homeschool sitution was much more open to giving the kids some freedom after he saw how happy they were.

I think the let me smell you hands routine was staged at the end of the show. At least I hope it was

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

what is up with the hand smelling? That just sounds gross!

 

[eeyore kelly]

She smelled hands to see if they were clean enough. At the end of the show she did it on her daughter's date, because she goes on every date with her daughter.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

She smelled hands to see if they were clean enough. At the end of the show she did it on her daughter's date, because she goes on every date with her daughter.

I'm not going to fault her for going on dates with her daughter. (How old is she btw?) Different families have different dating rules--this probably just looked extreme given the family's general lifestyle. But there are cultures out there that do this. And hey--if she found a guy to go on a date that woudl put up with it...good for her!

But smelling the dates hands---Is she trying to get him to not ask her out again??

 

[pattyT]

she is 16.
the daughter...
I thought maybe it was staged and then I thought - augh it probably was not!
there were what - 7 kids and the parents sleeping in an RV
even though they had a house! and the beds in the house wer all in one room -
all the kids were sleeping in the same room with the parents - right up to the 16 year old!
I am all for letting the little ones climb in bed with me - but
how did they manage to make so many kids!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

- 7 kids and the parents sleeping in an RV
even though they had a house! and the beds in the house wer all in one room -
all the kids were sleeping in the same room with the parents - right up to the 16 year old!
I am all for letting the little ones climb in bed with me - but
how did they manage to make so many kids!

Sorry for dragging this on as I didn't see the show...but why in the world are they sleeping in an RV if they have a house?????

You say they all have their own rooms now, right?

 

[Stitch Inside]

all the kids were sleeping in the same room with the parents - right up to the 16 year old!
I am all for letting the little ones climb in bed with me - but
how did they manage to make so many kids!

This mind does not want to know, or think about it anymore...I mean, wait, I was watching baseball.

 

[Jeafl]

I thought the home schooling wasn't really the issue. My problem with that family is that NONE of the kids, not even the teenagers were allowed to have friends or go within 5 feet of the RV without their parents. They had absolutely no freedom. The parents were so paranoid that the kids were going to be killed or abducted. Their paranoia obviously affected the kids because the teenage girls got all teary-eyed and said "What if we get scared?" when the other mom said they were moving back into the house and having their own bedrooms.

It absolutely amazes me that ABC continues to find such extreme families.

I too, wondered how they managed to conceive 7 children with all of them sleeping in the same room. I really don't want to know the answer to that.

 

[momof2inPA]

I think the homeschool mom needed psychiatric intervention for her OCD and irrational fears. It wasn't right of the show to take advantage of her issues by exploiting that family on tv. What was wrong with the realtor mom's teeth? If they can afford that big house, she can afford to have dental work.

 

[Marseeya]

I missed the first 20 minutes or so of the show. Was this hour the entire show, or is it a two-part show like Trading Spouses?

So, anyway, what happened that I missed? Was the homeschool family into attachment parenting or something?

I did like how the dads came through. The working mom hubby was kind of a jerk in the beginning, but I think he did have a breakthrough towards the end. The homeschool dad was great -- so caring of his kids and so willing to see another side to things. I hope they continue on that path for the kids' sakes.

 

[mickeyfan2]

I thought burying the cell phone in a coffin was funny. I loved how you could hear it ring. The mom of 7 was too protective, but I think they had the nicer family. The working mom was a witch, but did get better. Her husband was mean too. The father of the 7 kids treated his new wife nicer and did see some of her points (dating and jobs for the girls/moving back into the house/helping around the house).

 

[Marseeya]

Oh, and one more thing. Did any of you catch where the homeschool mom said something to the effect of, "I'll show you how a real mom is"? She denied it at the end, but I did hear her say that because that's when I started watching the show!

 

[pattyT]

YES - I heard the real mom comment -
and couldn't believe a the end when she was denying it - hello it is in the tape!
I am still laughing at her fear of the pencil! Was that for real!

I agree she needed dental work - and husband was quit self absorbed at first - bolth the guys turned out ok in my book (i was thinking the one with 7 kids was a dictator at first!)

I fear abductions and such but at a much more normal level!

Yes they had a house they did not live in - a nice spacious nothing wrong with it house...
they lived in the camper instead she didn't like her kids more than 5 feet from her at any time -
and didyousee that itty bitty tiny washer dryer to do the laundry in! for 9 PEOPLE! I don't blame the new mom for going to the laundromat!

 

[gradtchr]

I missed it last night. AARRGGHH!!!

 

[disykat]

It was a good one. In this one, I actually blame the husbands for a lot of what was going on! I kept wondering why they had just put up with the craziness coming from their wives - apparently without any kind of battle for normalcy. While the one husband at least admited at the start of the show he didn't want his wife on the phone all the time, the RV dad acted as if it was totally normal to allow your kids absolutely no freedom. "Enabler" comes to mind!