Sometimes My Insticts are Correct

So, I was flipping channels today, and I came across the show Jon & Kate plus Eight. Normally I would just have passed right by, considering my true loathing for most reality TV. However, I had already been through the channel lineup once. And also, just last week, a couple of my co-workers were discussing this show and saying it was really funny and entertaining, so I decided to give it a try.

Here's the premise for the uninformed: Jon and Kate are this married couple that have (I think) 5 year old girl twins, and 3 year old sextuplets - 3 are boys and 3 are girls. So in nutshell, they are raising 8 kids under the age of 6. It's a zoo.

Anyway, I should have gone with my first instinct. Let me just tell you what was happening in this particular episode I caught.....

Apparently Jon and Kate are in the middle of potting training the 3 year olds. They have like 6 different little kid plastic toliets in their bathroom, and all the kids are running around and jumping all over the place, while the parents are trying to get them to use said potties.

Then, one of the little girls actually does number 2 in her potty, and THE CRAZY MOM GOES AND GETS A CAMERA AND TAKES A PICTURE OF THE KID STANDING NEXT TO THE CRAP IN THE TOLIET.

Seriously. And it gets better.....

she labels the picture and puts in on the fridge. Apparently next to the picture of another one of the kids with their prize in the toliet also.

Iis this normal? To take a snapshot of your kids feces and hang it on the fridge? I really hope not. I don't think anyone involved thought this was normal, except for Kate.

Afterall, the afrementioned "poop" is fuzzed out on the video like it is a grownup part or something. So, that tells me that even the network thinks this is weird. Even Jon, the husband, started talking to the camera about how this whole picture thing is a bit strange.

So, I am someone who will admit when I am wrong about a show or something, but wow. This is not of those times.

it just points out again, the real reason that I don't like most reality TV. There are just some moments that people should not share with the whole country. I keep thinking that those poor kids are going to be made fun of like crazy at school in a few years.

So a big thumbs down to Jon & Kate Plus Eight.