Are the Gosselins and TLC Delusional? Or Am I?

I am won­der­ing right now if Jon & Kate Gos­selin & TLC are delu­sional. I have delu­sions of grandeur myself but I am won­der­ing if they are totally off the deep end at this point. It’s any­thing but funny what’s going on in this fam­ily. Remem­ber there are 8 kids who didn’t sign up for a TV show & are just along in the ride whether or not they want to be.

Case in point: They are going to con­tinue the film­ing of their show Jon & Kate plus 8. You know the show about an aver­age fam­ily cop­ing with the ups & downs of rais­ing mul­ti­ples, laugh­ing, & grow­ing amidst the strug­gles of every­day life. Great fam­ily, great mar­riage, and all the antics that ensue from hav­ing 8 young kids. Sounds great, I even gave the ben­e­fit of the doubt because they kids are cute. My kids adore those kids, Mamacita gets excited to see the “lit­tle kids.”

How­ever, it’s a facade & the under­belly is not pretty.

Daddy may be cheat­ing on Mommy. Mommy is get­ting too close to her body­guard. No one is shar­ing a bed, let alone a house. And peo­ple debate if Mommy is a harpie from hell who deserves to have her hubs act like a teen boy with over­ac­tive hor­mones & too much spend­ing cash instead of a grown man with 8 children.

And if you don’t know then appar­ently you don’t watch the evening news. Because it’s been big news. So big CNN had to do play-by-play updates.

Now this new fam­ily set up & all the pain that a crum­bling fam­ily brings may be closer to real­ity for many of us out there in Amer­ica in some twisted way. Since noth­ing about the lav­ish lifestyle the fam­ily now enjoys is going to be a real­ity for most of us. But it’s the pain of a mar­riage strug­gling and kids caught in the mid­dle, no mat­ter how hard par­ents work to keep them out of it, that is real. Whether we’ve been there our­selves, as par­ents or chil­dren, or watched fam­i­lies we love in real life go through this we know that pain. It sucks, it’s raw, & it’s too inti­mate to play out in my liv­ing room.

I don’t want to watch kids being shuf­fled between par­ents, try­ing to under­stand their new real­ity as chil­dren of divorce. I don’t want to watch a couple’s mar­riage fall apart & the pain of that. I don’t want to watch the death of a fam­ily. Real or not, it’s not entertainment.

I won­der how any­one think that a show fea­tur­ing the hor­ri­ble pain of sep­a­ra­tion & divorce is a good thing? Or that the gravy train is going to con­tinue? Rat­ings don’t last for­ever. And I under­stand that there are signed con­tracts. I get that it would be a legal labyrinth to get out of them but come on already!

Just think about it. Their kids, young kids who are part of this whole drama, will get to rewatch Mommy & Daddy’s mar­riage falling apart over & over & over & over again.

Are they delu­sional act­ing like this should go on & it’s all for the kids? Is TLC the delu­sional one for try­ing to keep them in their con­tracts as if it’s qual­ity fam­ily enter­tain­ment? Or am I delu­sional to think that this is not a good thing for any­one as this gravy train con­tin­ues to veer off the tracks tak­ing out the fam­i­lies across sub­ur­bia who watch & those kids who are in this fam­ily? Sub­ur­bia can turn the chan­nel, but the Gos­selin 8 they are liv­ing this for real. When every­one stops watch­ing they still have to live this life.

Can any­one think this is a good thing for those kids?

More From The Con­fused Homemaker:

• Gos­selins Are Back: More Jon & Kate Plus 8?
• Octo-Deal: More Real­ity Train Wrecks.
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