This guy's 15 minutes have seemed like 15 years to the rest of us.
I had to laugh when he mentioned his agent, from some “talent management. What talent? Having relations with his wife wich produced 6 kids from hyper-stimulation from her ovaries?
Without the show, what talent do either of them have?
re: They’re 5 and 8 now; let them experience a normal childhood
My wife has been a preschool director for over 30 years. She would tell him that eight for certain, and five most likely, the course of his children’s lives is set. She sees them starting at two-years-old and even then it’s very difficult to change the course of a child’s life. It’s much more a matter of changing the parents. She’s says the children in the five-year-old classes are about as mature as what she was seeing in the two-year-old and three-year-old classes 30 years ago. She attributes much of it TV and the fact that kids are parked in front of the TV at a very early age and the constant bombardment of their sight and hearing by the rapid pace of today’s shows makes it much more difficult for other things to get through to them. She will be the first to tell you she is by no means an expert on the subject and her opinion is that, her opinion, and not based on any sort of scientific study.
What she sees the biggest difference in now is the language skills of the two-year-olds. Half of each new class shows up having never had to ask for anything, just grunt or use some other means of communicating a need. They come from a setting where language is not important to them. She has to have a meeting with the new parents in those classes to make sure they understand the importance of having a child have to ask for things. Her favorite phrase, and she uses it on my frequently, is “Use your words.”
Kinda off topic I know, but it says a lot about the children of today.
I never watched the show. TV has become a wasteland. Only History Channel and Discovery Channel.
This “epiphany” comes on the heels of TLC’s Monday announcement that they are cutting Jon’s role on the weekly show. Up until that time he was happy to go along with the status quo. I think that TLC saw his ongoing antics with various women on various continents, I’m thinking of the French Riviera escapade, as a detriment to the program and they wanted to distance themselves from him. Neither one of these parents may be saints, but he seems to have gone out of his way to embarrass his soon to be ex-wife, his children and the network that has paid him a handsome salary.
I watched a minute or two of the show and said to myself: “what is this” and snapped to my senses and changed the channel to BBC America and view: MI-5.
Now that he’s been kicked off the show he thinks the show was a bad idea.
Loser loser loser
Guys, don’t think he is concerned with his kids...
He got his ‘epiphany’ when he received the letter the other day saying that “Jon and Kate plus 8” is now only “Kate plus 8”.
That’s right, this show isn’t good for his kids once HIS paycheck stopped.
LMAO.
Gosselin’s apparent epiphany comes after TLC announced the new show’s name: Kate Plus 8. No more Jon.
What a fat loser.
Ten people doomed to have unhappy lives.
WHat kind of sad loser watches this train wreck, voluntarily?
How about TV in general is not good for your kids, adults or for our nation as it promotes all kinds of anti-Western, anti-white, anti-family and anti-American BS..
I know Jon’s motives are suspect, but whatever it takes to get the kids out of the spotlight.
I watched the show for 2 years because I enjoyed the children so much. Jon and Kate’s couch time was the worst and the least necessary part of the show.
Kate was on Jon all the time ... I mean all the time. He never fought back probably because he didn’t want to air their dirty laundry in public.
Now they are just another dysfunctional family with an entitled American woman and a guy going through a midlife crisis about 10 years early. Even if one doesn’t care about what’s best for the kids, watching another marriage breakup just isn’t that interesting.
NSS!
It’s not so good when your kids can see for themselves what a low-life scumbag you are as you party around the globe.