<p>I commented of the high chairs and bibs to my husband. I was surprised that Jon would do that as he isn’t anal like Kate. My kids b**ched about their booster seats in the car when they were 4; I can’t imagine what grief I would have gotten from them if I tried to put them in a high chair, and wearing a bib!!</p>
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<p>That’s a comment on how socially isolated they are. The kids don’t know that anything odd is happening. I just hope TLC shows us the part where the kids come home from kindergarten with all kinds of information (like "They don’t have high chairs at lunch! I got my bib out of my lunchbox and no one else was wearing one!)</p>
<p>By the way, have J&K ever talked about pre-school? Have the little kids ever gone?</p>
<p>Yes, a few episodes this past year were about when they were in preschool. They were all in the same class. Same preschool teacher that Maddie and Cara had - I think she was at the b-day picnic show. Since preschool classes have to be limited in size (12ish for their age of 4???) they would have made up 1/2 the class!</p>
<p>“I commented of the high chairs and bibs to my husband. I was surprised that Jon would do that as he isn’t anal like Kate.”</p>
<p>I laughed when I read this. Can you imagine the verbal crap Jon might have gotten from Kate if she saw those kids on camera and in his care without a bib? Just imagine what the next chair interview session would have been like–on camera, “Jon, You’re so stupid. Aiden got a spot on his shirt because you didn’t put the bib on. Jon, what have I told you a million times? Is it so hard to put a bib on? Jon, your so stupid sometimes.”</p>
<p>Maybe they are waiting for the table manufacturer to donate 6 more “regular” chairs. :)</p>
<p>My kids rarely ever wore bibs and never used high chairs. If we followed guidelines to keep them in booster seats in the car until they reached 100 pounds, they would have needed them until HS & beyond! We let them stop in grade school, even tho they were & continue to be lightweights.</p>
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<p>Yeah, my 7th grader is still under 100. I personally didn’t hit 100 until I was 27 and practicing law. Can you see me getting into a car with a client? “Wait, let me get my booster seat…of course, I’ll have to ride in the back seat.”</p>
<p>My S finally got to 100 when he high 11th grade & he won a lot of judo contests that year because there was no one else in his weight category competing, statewide. D fluctuates between high 90s & low 100s, depending on whether she has recently eaten and what she’s wearing. :)</p>
<p>Yea, I can just picture my kids going to prom – in a booster seat! Fortunately, they were all in the back, as they hired a group limo for the multiple couples. None had to worry about “fresh” dates or running out of conversation. ;)</p>
<p>Oh, that’s even funnier HImom…an 11th grade male athlete, in a booster seat.</p>
<p>I actually didn’t notice high chairs or bibs in this week’s episode when they were eating in the kitchen and Jon was doling out candy. I did comment to my D during the birthday party episode that the kids were not wearing bibs. </p>
<p>The booster seat guidelines here in Toronto specify that children under the age of 8, who weigh between 40-80 lbs., and who are less than 57 inches tall, must be in a booster seat that meets provincial requirements, in ANY car, not only the parents’. It’s a good law and has been in effect for several years.</p>
<p>My son is ten and is nowhere near the weight requirement. We put a guard on the seatbelt when he was 8 and let him sit on the regular seat. He will not, however, park his butt in the front seat till he gets much bigger because we have airbags. D2 is 17, 5’3 and not 100 pounds. I could just see her snarky self in a booster! Not.</p>
<p>So the regulation only stipulates a weight requirement and not age or height where you are, zoos? Once a child here reaches any of the three components of the law, they no longer have to be in an approved seat.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned long ago in this thread, J&K used to live in a nearby town and we knew several neighbors. Occasionally we saw Kate and the kids in a local mall and honestly, she seemed much less high strung than on tv. </p>
<p>Like most of you I loved watching the kids when they were little, but I was always concerned about the ethical issues of having your kids on display at all times. As a psychologist, I am so careful to protect my clients and my family. I hope this program soon runs its course. The kids will never have their anonymity restored, truly a disservice to any child.</p>
<p>Can you imagine growing up, knowing that people can still watch reruns of your childhood tantrums, vomiting and potty pooping? Or comments from your mother about your bad behavior, dirty diapers, timeouts, etc? These kids will need decades of therapy to recover from being brought up on national TV. It’s a good thing J&K earn $75K an episode. I hope they don’t spend all the money before the kids’ shrink bills come in.</p>
<p>In one of the recent episodes, one of the boys was reciting all the “bad words” he knew…a string of “butt, poo” etc. Most kids go through this, but most of us would not want those moments to be on TV (like you said, in endless reruns.)</p>
<p>The radio dirt of the day reported that TLC is assisting Jon in finding an apartment as he is officially moving out.</p>
<p>Oh, I can just imagine the spin offs! Will there be a decorating show for Jon’s new apartment??! Trading Spaces, here they come! And then, Jon can head over to What Not to Wear- although Clinton might quit over that- because he’s going to have to get a job and he can’t head to interview wearing that dorky baseball cap crammed backwards on his head, cargo shorts and sandals!
Now, will they show us the nannies and the household help, because if Jon isn’t there and Kate is “working”, who’s minding the kids? They can’t crawl into those high chairs by themselves and if they fall on the tile floor get hurt, it will throw Kate’s entire schedule off again.
By the way, re. the comment about the Duggar family- I don’t subscribe to their way of thinking either, but those kids are loved, well-behaved and happy, and they show it. When their mother looks at them, she radiates love, never raises her voice and the kids don’t seem fearful or anxious, nor do we see films of the older ones kicking the daylights out of a younger sibling! As for the little boy with the work book, that was Jackson and according to what I just found on line, he was born in May of 2004, which would make him 5 as of right now, and that show was filmed a few months ago, Having taught younger children, I’d say that he was right on target for most average kids and more advanced than my entire last class of pre-K little ones!</p>
<p>In California, kids are in booster seats until six years or sixty pounds. I think it’s a good law. It didn’t come into effect until I had my youngest child and it was kind of odd dropping him off in the carpool lane in a booster seat (compared to when I dropped off my older kids) but I think it’s a good law.</p>
<p>Maybe Jon can be on the Bachelor…</p>