Did you hear that the Gosselin kids are staging a prison break?
In a previous blog I detailed the physical pains that are inherent to parenthood. Yesterday I received a link to a hilarious take on how parents can be a real pain in the butt to their kids.
Not surprisingly the post was about Kate Gosselin.
The divorced mother of eight good-looking and articulate children (9-year-old twins and 6-year-old sextuplets) is back on TLC with a new show called Kate Plus 8. The latest episode aired Sunday night and has already been repeated ad nauseam.
The intent of the episode was to show viewers how Kate is handling life as a single mom to eight kids.
Enter the quip about the kids staging a prison break.
I happened to catch the show when it was rerun a couple of nights ago and I have to admit that Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker hit it right on the head when he remarked that Kate could turn any seemingly benign family project into a “punitive exercise.”
The episode showed the family learning how to take care of their new chickens. However, instead of making the activity a lighthearted event, Kate announced to the kids that whoever disobeyed her would be assigned with the task of cleaning up chicken poop.
Way to endear the kids to the newest members of the family.
The rest of the episode was filled with Kate kvetching about her single mom status and how it is soooo hard to “run 26 acres alone.”
Never mind that the episode also showed a litany of hired help traipsing around the Gosselin mansion and property, from the farmers building the chicken coop, Kate’s personal bodyguard, a guy that tested the family’s drinking water, workers installing trees and bushes to shield the kids from looky-loos, and a team of men hired to power-wash the house.
And let’s not forget the ever-present TLC camera crew, whom Kate turned to when the going got really rough. In one scene a flustered Kate, who clearly couldn’t keep it together despite being surrounded by all eight kids, appealed to a camera guy to remove a bloodied rooster from the coop.
Household maintenance aside, the part that really got me was seeing Kate interact with her kids. Could the woman complain more?
“Everywhere I go, I’m ‘Mommy’d to death,” Kate yelped clearly exasperated when two of her kids wanted answers to questions at the same time.
“I’m in charge and that’s never gonna change, so shush!” she yelled at the kids while standing in the kitchen tossing her peroxide extensions and smoothing out her ultra short skirt and body-hugging tee.
Those jabs were interspersed with a myriad of others, which featured loud complaints about how “working” with her kids was a real pain in her behind.
Wonder how the Gosselin kids feel about “working” with their drama queen mother?
I also wonder how homeless single moms feel about hearing Kate bemoan having to upkeep 26 acres, a pool, a huge home, a staff of hired help and a brood of healthy kids?