OK, I know that having 17 kids is weird; a bunch of pro-life, conservative Southern Baptists who dress like Pentecostals and practice birth control like Catholics is even weirder. But I still can't help myself for being drawn to the shows that the Duggars have been in, most recently 17 Kids and Counting. I have to admit that it is fun to watch what all of these people do, and the fact that they genuinely seem to love and care for each other and NEVER FIGHT is phenomenal. Hey, Jon and Kate's 8 kids fight, and we know that is reality. I greatly admire Michelle's parenting skills; she never seems to raise her voice, always smiles (even in the throes of labor pains), and has the most well-disciplined bunch of kids who ever graced the small screen. Jon and Kate yell regularly at their kids and each other, and I cannot even imagine Kate gently taking a kid aside and murmuring to him or her softly and then the kid behaving like a gem. I'm getting a good laugh just typing that scenario!
I've read criticism of both the Duggar and the Gosselin families, and I do not necessarily disagree with a lot of it, even though I am a big fan of the tv shows that they respectively star in. But here is my bottom line (thanks, Frank Melton, another blog in and of itself). Both families are practicing Christians, are up front about it, and TLC does not try to hide that fact. Both families are shown praying, reading the Bible, and attending church (in the case of the Gosselins). Both families are shown trying to teach their kids right from wrong with a heaping dose of family values thrown in, albeit in completely different ways. Yea, TLC! Thanks for showing America that there are Christian families out there, and thanks for not trying to be "politically correct!"
I like both of these shows and will continue to watch.
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