<p>Love this show!!</p>
<p>I think a better strategy for the grandparents dealing with bratty Sydney is to say something akin to ,“You don’t have to eat if you don’t want to, but when you walk away from the table, the kitchen is closed.” And if it were me, I’d probably prepare something else for her, especially if she doesn’t have a history of obnoxious behavior. Let the parents deal with these issues. Grandparents hold a special place.</p>
<p>Loved the Zeke and Camille scene in the laundry room. It was a love scene on many different levels.</p>
<p>Love Minka Kelly. I hope they don’t write her character out of the show.</p>
<p>Of course, rumor mill says she is preparing to wed Derek Jeter…anyone know if this is true? Yeah, I know, not quite on topic but I’m a baseball and Yankee fan and it’s ALMOST spring!</p>
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<p>There’s a pretty good reason for that, apart from the presence on camera of Minka Kelly and Michael Jordan. The head writer and day-to-day show runner (and, in the case of Parenthood, the person who developed the current version) is the same for both: Jason Katims. A fabulous TV writer. He was also the creative person behind Roswell and co-head writer on Boston Public. And a hero in my house.</p>
<p>The production company is the same, too: Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment, which produced the original movies of both.</p>
<p>Just watched. Cried, too.</p>
<p>Two shallow comments: Minka Kelly is beyond gorgeous. And Zeke doesn’t look like a good kisser.</p>
<p>I also wouldn’t have had the standoff with Sydney. My policy is you have two options for dinner: Take it or leave it. If you don’t feel like eating, that’s fine, but no short-order cook is going to rescue you. I wouldn’t engage in a battle of wills with the 6yo. I did thnk it was hilarious to hear Julia lecture her dad about not wanting to break her spirit. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>So is the song going to be a big hit?</p>
<p>Question for those who have been watching this from the beginning like I have. There were a couple of early episodes where part of the storyline concerned Zeke’s precarious financial position. A friend was asking me if/how that was ever resolved and I can’t remember. Anyone else have a better memory than I do? I don’t recall it ever being mentioned again.</p>
<p>I don’t remember what happened with that storyline either.</p>
<p>I don’t get the attraction of Cosby either.</p>
<p>I think there is a big difference between a kid who wants to be a vegetarian and a kid who decides they don’t want to eat anything. Julia and what’s his name (husband) can accept Sydney’s vegetarian desires, but must explore with their kid food alternatives to meat. She’s a gifted kid – she needs to learn that abandoning meat is OK, but there needs to be protein substitutes. One cannot live on dessert alone (despite the fact that ice cream and chocolate are major food groups).</p>
<p>Zeke shouldn’t force her to eat lasagna or make her feel guilty for not eating it, but it’s OK with me that he didn’t let her skip to dessert. (And we never did find out how it was all resolved – did Sydney sleep at the table?)</p>
<p>Back to Crosby – never tell your significant other that you slept with someone!! That is my mantra. He’s an idiot, Jasmine has issues too – they need couples counseling. Anyway – how long will it take for the entire family to find out that Crosby slept with Gabby – 5 minutes?</p>
<p>alwaysmom: I don’t remember if or how Zeke’s money issues were resolved either.</p>
<p>I couldn’t believe Gabby told. She can leave and never look back, but she put Crosby in a horrible position.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I would let a six year old, gifted or otherwise, make a decision to become a vegetarian. There’s a big difference between six and ten or thirteen. I just don’t think I’d do it. I have a vague recollection of my own (gifted) daughter occasionally throwing the idea out. At a certain point in high school, she could fix her own meals if she didn’t want red meat or what we were eating, but with four kids there was no way I was preparing something separate before they were of an age to prepare it themselves. Sorry, there are perks to getting older and one of them is making those kinds of decisions. Not at six.</p>
<p>Absolutely LOVE this show most weeks. Max is a phenomenal actor. As a mom of two (twin) sons on the spectrum, it certainly hits home many weeks. Loved the episode last week with the “bug guy”. And I too feel that Zeke and Camille were 100% correctthis week week with how they handled Sidney and Julia. </p>
<p>I am curious to see how they will handle the fact of what Max heard last week. My sons know they have some ADD issues but, like Max, in the episode when he was Walking for Autism, they don’t really see themselves as autistic. They have watched a Brain Pop video about autism, and, though they probably forgot, I read with them a book called “can i tell you about aspergers” (about a grade school kid with aspergers and their quirks and triggers) when they were still in elementary school. (they are now approaching 15). The book was bought to make them feel like they were not alone and to educate their teachers and my family, at the time. When the topic comes up on TV we try to feel them out but we have never come out and said, you have aspergers or Pdd-nos. So I am interested to see how this is handled. I personally hope that Crosby ditches Jasmin - such an arrogant, controling attitude on that one. And Gaby slowly comes back in as the therapist and Crosbys new girl. Will be tough though to handle that with Jabar staying in the picture. I thought they handled the Seth scenario great at the end and was happy to see Amber coming to her realization at the end.
During the coming attractions Sarah wrote dear mom and dad…is she running to meet seth or is she writing lyrics…?</p>
<p>About Gaby telling the truth–I think her connection to Kristina is much deeper than her connection to Crosby, even if it is nominally more professional than personal. In her shoes I would have found it intolerable not to level with Kristina in that situation. She owed Kristina the truth a lot more than she owed Crosby silence.</p>
<p>I think she may also have sensed (rightly) that Crosby would spill the beans before long anyway, because he would feel responsible for Gaby’s departure and would want to deflect their anger from her.</p>
<p>My son is 9 1/2 and has aspergers …he knows but isn’t ready to talk about it. It’s totally possible to have it and not know… Especially arbutus age. Young kids could use the dx as a crux or explanation when they need to know abound handling individual issues.</p>
<p>When they get older (id say by 14) kids need to know more. They need to learn how to start advocating for themselves. I am pretty sure that in my state high schoolers with IEPs are supposed to be involved in those meetings.</p>
<p>Absolutely they do participate in their CSE meetings from age 14 on ( you can invite them in at any time) and once on a 504 they are instructed by the special ed department on how to self advocate. My aspy son is at this level now, and has luckily just taken off in his learning abilities. Its the social skills that are still way behind/immature. His brother will be following on this route late spring 
woo hoo! But I fear more for him - not as much of a disciplined self starter but thrilled at how far both have come! But it doesnt mean they “get” that they have any form of autism - and I agree with not wanting it to be a crutch/excuse. They do know what stymies them…and we try to help with identifying that for them as well…so they can focus on that and get help if necessary. Their first itinerant teacher, when they were 4, told me that they will eventually develop the tools to deal with their issues - and socialization. iT will never come naturally but it will develop. And it has year by year. :)</p>
<p>I haven’t finished last night’s episode yet (I watch when I work out and started my workout with a different show so only got about 20 min in) BUT Crosby needs to be slapped!</p>
<p>No one has to talk to him - I know he’s feeling awful, I know he wants to fix things, but his constant stalking of Jasmine saying she has to talk to him is so Crosby but so infuriating, LOL! </p>
<p>I am glad though Julia didn’t cancel the sleepover either.</p>
<p>I’m sure I’ll have many more thoughts when I work out again, LOL!</p>
<p>Just watched myself. Cried – again. Crosby is such an idiot.</p>
<p>Had a super busy day and about 5 minutes in I fell asleep, and did not DVR. Ugh. I imagine I can catch it somewhere on the internet.</p>
<p>That’s where I saw it – on hulu.com</p>
<p>Of course Crosby’s an idiot. That’s his job in this family.</p>
<p>The moment I really appreciated last night, though, was Adam’s completely inappropriate temper tantrum with his parents and Christina – ranting about how selfish Crosby was, while demanding that the world revolve around him. And the fact that he was right about almost everything didn’t even remotely excuse his behavior. (I also loved what a great job he did executing “the script” after he had pooh-poohed it so, um, adamantly.)</p>
<p>But . . . on the whole, I was not a big fan of last night’s episode. Too much hyper-flirtatious, gauzily-filmed Lauren Grahamery. I don’t think it’s believable that people write brilliantly and flawlessly the first time they try it in 15+ years. The Crosby-Jasmine thing is too soap-opera-ish. It was not realistic that Crosby was arrested for fighting someone who was in his home and refused to leave. I didn’t think it was actually in character for Adam to disregard the psychiatrist’s advice (although it made for better narrative). And I missed Haddie, Amber, and the kid from The Wire and Friday Night Lights.</p>