Wife Swap---oh this is going to be funny....

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Pageant mom--hard-core..swapping with a family that lives quite naturally (in the woods, no tv, organic foods).


This is going to be a funny culture shock!

 

[wvjules]

We have some stupid Steelers Primetime on our ABC channel right now.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Well the naturalist mom is reading the "successful Kentucky pageant family" manual.

 

[dbogen]

Where do they get these people.

 

[LoraJ]

I love how pageant mom thinks that free-thinking child is "brainwashed".

 

[dbogen]

Whats wrong with thrift store clothing?? I have gotten some great things at good will? I don't have to shop at Lord and Taylor to be happy. But I guess I am more like the natural mom than the pageant mom.

Deanna

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Well the free-thinking child does think she wants a hamburger and her mom won't let her.


Poor kid is in tears b/c the pageant mom is going to make her do a pageant.


It's not so funny--it actually is pretty sad.

Dad needs to get a clue though---the teaser has him demanding scientific evidence that the family's diet is unhealthy.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Whats wrong with thrift store clothing?? I have gotten some great things at good will? I don't have to shop at Lord and Taylor to be happy. But I guess I am more like the natural mom than the pageant mom.

Deanna

Nothing wrong with it--but she did have a point...a $5 budget for clothes for the girl (only we don't know how often this $5 is budgeted)...while the mom spends a bunch on her paints and such.

 

[dbogen]

I wonder how much money these moms are given for the weeks. A big screen TV, Using makeup as paint. I hope they get an allowance.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

dumb question--if the free thinkers don't watch any tv...how did she know about this show so that she could apply?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Using makeup as paint.

I think they are using what was in the makeup kit...but you make a good point.

I think they would need something--b/c maybe a family's budget doesn't support the swapping wife's changes to make it like her home.

 

[LoraJ]

dumb question--if the free thinkers don't watch any tv...how did she know about this show so that she could apply?

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if a lot of this is staged.

 

[dbogen]

dumb question--if the free thinkers don't watch any tv...how did she know about this show so that she could apply?

I never thought about it. Maybe she has friends who clued her in.

 

[LoraJ]

I never undertsand why people boohooo so much about not having TV for a week.

 

[poohandwendy]

One thing that stands out to me...you really are not a 'free thinker' if you are indocrinated into a specific lifestyle of 'free thinking', in that case, it has been chosen for you and it's all you know... You are a free thinker if you step outside your norm.

I just always think it is funny when parents talk about raising their children to be 'free thinkers', but also have a long laundry list of things they don't want their kids to agree with or be exposed to...

 

[BavarianPrincess]

This show is my husband's secret guilty pleasure! We're stuck with the Steelers too, but here Wife Swap will be on at 1 am, so you can bet he's recording it!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

One thing that stands out to me...you really are not a 'free thinker' if you are indocrinated into a specific lifestyle of 'free thinking', in that case, it has been chosen for you and it's all you know... You are a free thinker if you step outside your norm.

I just always think it is funny when parents talk about raising their children to be 'free thinkers', but also have a long laundry list of things they don't want their kids to agree with or be exposed to...

Reminds me of the non-conformists when I was in high school.

Little did they know, they were conforming with one another.

 

[leighe]

OMG - I KNOW THE PAGEANT PEOPLE! Well, I don't know the mom but I went to high school with the dad. I think he was one or two classes before me! My mom called me tonight and said, "You have to watch WifeSwap - people from Beechmont are going to be on it!" The little town I grew up in is right down the road. I turned it on at the beginning and didn't recognize the mom and then the dad came on and I about fell in the floor! I called my best friend from high school and yelled "Michael Yonts is on tv and his daughters are pageant queens!" She thought I was nuts and then we watched the whole show on the phone together! I don't know why I found it so funny - it was kind of sad really. I think both moms would do well to loosen up a little.



Honestly - I thought they would make little Muhlenberg County, Kentucky look worse. It wasn't that bad!