Is Jon & Kate Still OK for Kids?

will never watch this show again. In the beginning, I could relate as a parent of a demanding toddler... they have six for goodness sake! It gave me hope that I could make it through the day with my one demanding toddler. Watching them struggle to make it through the day with their busy, normal lives was inspiring. I even used to defend Kate when I heard people say critical things... after all, every army needs a general, right? I know that I am the general around my house, for sure! However, I used to hear the way Kate spoke to Jon and pray that I never spoke to my kind, sweet husband like that! They used to be like every family on the block... worrying about how to stretch a dollar at the grocery store and how to sneak out of the house to squeeze errands into the 2 hour nap window of freedom. Slowly, but surely, the dynamics of the show/their lives changed, and I decided not to watch any more shortly before they moved to the latest house. Watching the show evolve into TLC-sponsored field trips got to be a little difficult to tolerate. Listening to the arguing and sniping got to be too much to take. They became totally unrelatable to me. Perhaps there is some demographic out there in tv land that will appreciate watching this new phase of their lives, but it is not me. Now, it is no longer a show about a family struggling to make it in the face of overwhelming circumstances... it has become a show about a family who sold their collective souls to the network. It is no longer inspirational, it is heartbreaking! I have no desire to see their struggles with the photographers camped outside their sprawling estate. I do not wish to see how they deal with this divorce, new relationships, sharing a house during this estrangement... this is nothing but a trainwreck. How can they possibly think that filming this is going to do any good for their children? They need to get the cameras out of their house and move on to other projects that will afford them a lifestyle that will insulate their children from the cameras that they imposed on them throughout their childhoods.