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Jon and Kate Meltdown: Shut up for Your Kids’ Sake!

Posted by cole gamble on June 8th, 2009 at 10:00 am

Jon and Kate Meltdown: Shut up for Your Kids Sake!The slow motion train wreck that is a dissolving marriage is never pretty to watch, but you put that stuff on TV and rubbernecking is irresistible. It seemed the TLC show Jon and Kate Plus Eight was merely a moderate hit, maybe pulling in a few million viewers. Now that their plus sized family has hit the marital rocks, however, you see Jon and Kate plastered all over the entire grocery checkout stand. There’s not a magazine out right now without a pic of Kate’s “revenge beach bod” or a hangdog Jon Gosslin bemoaning “Enough is Enough.”

Indeed, Jon, maybe enough is enough.

After all, we’re talking about a family whose destruction has become a spectator sport. Are we consumers done rubber necking this disaster? TLC certainly isn’t done milking it; Jon and Kate’s season premiere opened to big numbers for the modest show. Jon and Kate may be bankrupt relationship-wise, but they’re raking in the dough.

When does it stop being entertainment and become reality? I don’t mean “realty show” realty, I mean real reality. The real reality eight kids face as they parents very publicly break up.

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I don’t think children should be forced to live out their “lives” on television anyway. I think this is proof as to why it is a bad idea in the first place. A documentary is one thing. An on-going series is a whole other ball game.

Hopefully one or the other will wise up and realize that they’re both acting without considering the best interest of their children and make the necessary changes.

And soon.

FireMom commented on Jun 08 09 at 12:19 pm

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