TLC needs to give up this "chick" and her family.

The Gosselins are no-talent greedy grifters and need to stop their quest for fame and the big bucks at the expense of their children.

I will not watch anything related to Kate or Jon.

Well,,,, the witch finally did it! She got the work permits!

I cannot believe that she has her young children working. It sounds so bad and no one is doing anything about it.

I find it very hard to believe that they all want to be filmed. Just looking at the behavior of Mady and Cara says it all.

Kate Gosselin, I hope your happy, you sick pathetic piece of trash!

She'll never go away...and those kids will never have a normal life...if you keep watching her and writing about her.

As they said on The Simpsons, Just don't look. Just don't look.

I have always enjoyed the show. I will continue to watch. They have to make a living somehow. As long as money is being put away for the kids i do not have a problem with it. The show is real family life. Kate is doing a better job than i could do with that many children.

i do not believe for one minute that Kate is seeking fame so she can help her kids. I believe it is first and foremost for herself, and if her kids benefit, then Kate is ok with it as long as she benefits most. I am completely sick of her being on television ad nauseum. I am an emotional person, but it is too much that Kate is always always on TV crying and complaining about something. She is a wealthy woman and needs to shut up. I refuse to watch any of her or her kids' shows, or any television programs that she is on. Kate is like eating too much candy which has a lot of calories and is not good for you. There is no substance in Kate Gosselin. She has nothing more to offer television viewers. Her fame was on Jon and Kate Plus Eight. She and Jon messed up. It's over. They should get out of our hair now for good. I hope everyone boycotts Kate.

I like Kate,she is a hard working mother trying to make a living for her and her children. Jon on the other hand needs to grow up,he always acted like one of the kids. She had to push him to do anything.

Amen Ruth. Khate is out for Khate. And, she can only have a show if it involves her children. We all saw what she did to the ratings in the fall before TLC put the show on life support with antics like Natale Morales, whoa is Khate tour.

I only know this. No way am I watching the new shows. I think it is a crying shame these children are going back to the exploitation channel. Shame on the parents of these children for doing this. It was bad enough the 1st time around.

1. Anyone remember the older twins putting the "no cameras' sign on the door? What does that say?

2. How many more free field trips can one stand? Now we get to watch Khate emasculate the hired help since she does not have Jon to push around.

Oh, Lordie bee. Charms City mom if you see heads exploding over at Z on TV you will know why!

I am looking forward to both of Kate's new shows.

She is a hard working mom and a great example for women everywhere.

I will never watch anything with this woman, ever again.

Why don't they offer the nannies a show with the kids? They spend more time with them.

The sun must be reallllly hot in Texas. The only example she is can't be discussed in polite company.
WHY does SHE get 85% of the $$$$$$$$ and 8 kids have to split 15%? If they (OVER)pay her $75,000., she gets $63,750. and they each get $1,406. WOW) I don't understand her ripping off churches like she did, so there is no way in haelll I can even TRY to understand ripping off your kids. WHERE DID SHE HIDE ALL THE MONEY THEY MADE IN THEIR 3 YEARS OF STEALING MONEY FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES?

words: motel part
the staying in a motel part is what she likes BEST about show business.

I don't know who is more predictable - Jon, Kate, or TLC. Everyone knew Jon and Kate would put their kids back on TV for the big bucks when money got tight. Why this family's entire life has to be played out on TV, is beyond me. Besides, the kids are grown up now and I don't know why any person with any kind of life would be bored enough to even watch them, after 6 years of the J and K insanity, Neither Jon nor Kate will get real jobs - it's easier to parade their kids all over TV and all over the country, as if anyone cares about "my kids." J and k will use the 'for my kids" line for the next 100 years, to cover up their personal greed for money and fame.

...no talent greedy grifters says it all, Karen.

For a good laugh read IN TOUCH...boy, do they really tell the truth. Finally.

Congratulations to Kate and the children. I am glad your mother will be able to continue to support you in the lifestyle you have grown up in. Kate is hardworking and determined to make sure she can provide for those kids. There are people who spew venom at her no matter what she does. You say you dont want the kids on TV, they havent been on TV for many months, but still some of you continue with your hatred. If you dont like her, dont watch her. Those of us who do, will watch and are happy for her.

Ruth,
cotton candy?
had a great 8 to 9 watching Chuck - the show that's fun again! (plus, no children were harmed)

I've never seen Kate "work hard." What *does* that look like, exactly?

To the people that think Gosselin is a sweet honest MOM....get a brain! You people are the reason that trailer mom is on TV..So many people have done some really great things in life and they don't get a show.. This woman has 8 kid and she is suddenly fabulious! WAKE UP!!!

**Sonjia Biddle**

It's nice that you want to support a disgusting excuse for a mom by continuing to watch the show, but by doing so, you are also supporting the exploitation of the Gosselin children!

Think back to when you were a child Sonjia, and then ask yourself if you would have wanted every private moment of your childhood on national television for the world to see (including the pedophiles).

Also ask yourself Sonjia, did I want to work to support my parents (which would include faking parts of my life) or having a normal childhood that consists of real life events.

I read somewhere yesterday or today that Kate plans to put all of the kids in ballroom dancing classes. Gee, sounds like a TLC setup to me! How cute would it be to see all eight G kids traipsing around on a dance floor, compliments of TLC, and at a great profit for Kate! What a circus act that would be!

http://smalltowngosselins.blogspot.com/

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Remember the hoopla when one of the parents was caught on film slapping the behind of one of the little ones? Is spanking illegal? No. Is it attractive? No, and although it is not how most of us treat our children, in this case it probably doesn't legally qualify as abuse. Is it in line with the pristine picture painted on TV? Absolutely not, and imagine being the little ones and having to smile smile smile for the cameras:
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Kate spanked the kids all the time for little things. When they didn’t listen to her the first time, she snapped out and tanned their behinds. Jon would tell her to stop, but that would lead to them fighting in front of the kids, and Jon didn’t want that so he let her go. The source said Kate would get angry when the kids wouldn’t pick up their toys, and she never gave them a second chance. She once kicked a Lego building the boys made into a thousand pieces because they didn’t put it away the first time she ordered them. Then Kate made the tots clean up the mess she made, all the time yelling at them to put their damned toys away.

The kids were afraid of mommy. All she had to do was look at them with that expression, and they grew petrified because they knew what she’d do to them -- completely different from the loving parent you saw on TLC. Kate always screamed at them and that’s one of the reasons Jon said they split up. Jon painted himself as the fun parent and Kate as the meanie. Jon let the kids make a mess while Kate demanded everything stay neat and tidy. She would get mad at them just for taking out their toys to play.

All this was very self-serving, of course, and we wondered just how calculated this report was. But then one of Kate’s former neighbors from Wyomissing said Kate always did holler at the kids, even when they were infants. She would run the house like a military base, expecting the kids to jump whenever she barked orders. “I saw Kate spank the kids many times,” the neighbor said. “She believed in old-school discipline. If she said something and they didn’t listen, they’d get spanked. It got to the point that the kids would cower when she yelled at them because they didn’t know if they were going to get hit or not.”
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The reason I am printing this piece is to demonstrate the failings of reality TV when the parents have less than excellent parenting skills. I will use the Roloffs as a contrasting example. They aren't a perfect family, but they clearly love each other, and the kids know they always have a soft place to fall - on their parents. They also have areas of privacy in their home, and the kids are old enough to understand what's happening with the filming. Most of all, viewers get the feeling that if the family started to disintegrate in front of the cameras, the cameras would be removed by the family's adults.

A large part of parenting is understanding developmental stages and appreciating the child's experience and capabilities based on their ages and levels of growth. Yelling at infants and expecting toddlers to do everything perfectly the very first time displays a basic lack of understanding of children, and becoming frustrated to this degree shows a lack of maturity on the part of the parent. (This is not the parent's fault. Something was missing in their own parenting and they are doing the best they know how, given the limited skills they were given. This does not excuse it. It just explains it.)*

Anyone can be on a reality TV show, and with today's economy, lots of people want to be. Wouldn't it be great if families had to undergo counseling or have some sort of psychological screening in order to qualify to participate, as well as guidance throughout the entire process?

This is the third and last excerpt of my source's book-in-progress that I am going to print here. I hope you found my choices interesting and enlightening, and I look forward to your comments.

*Many of us were brought up with less than adequate parenting, only to become loving, non-abusive parents ourselves. Sometimes this happens naturally, and other times parents need help to become better parents. We have to admit we need to change in order for change to begin. Even the worst parents can become great parents with the help of a good therapist, as long as deep down inside they truly love their children. I believe these parents love their children.

I am concerned for the children of posters who defend Kate by saying she is a good mother. This is a woman who has embarrassed, humiliated, degraded, demeaned and made fun of her children on national television. She did this believing that she was elevating her status as "celebrity" and therefore it was justified. At the same time she has begged for sympathy because is was the victim of birthing 8 children.

It is not okay to treat your children the way Kate has treated her children - ever.

I hope that Kate "lovers" are primarily teen aged girls who fantasize about gaining attention by having cute little children dressed in matching outfits. Teen aged girls who will have maternal instincts that kick in when they actually have children. They will then hopefully recall episodes of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and be appalled by the way Kate treated her family.

Of major concern is that Kate "lovers" are already parents who believe mistreating children for their own gain is acceptable.

I love Kate and the children and will be very happy to see them again. Kate is a good mother and a good person and those who criticize so hatefully should have to go through just a fraction of what she has had to endure and think about how they would fare. The kids are healthy and could be a lot happier if it weren't for the antics of their nutcase father. Kate is providing for her kids and she will continue to do so and those children will all have college educations and God willing they will be just fine. To all the petty judgementals out there give her a break and take care of your own matters she doesn't stick her nose in your perfect worlds! Kudos to you Kate, keep up the good work and God bless you and your children!

Wow. Applying for a work permit for each of her eight (count 'em 8) children would feel very creepy and cringe-inducing to a real mom, with real maternal insticts. Just looking at those actual WORK PERMITS for children would make me feel emabarrassed and sick to my stomach.

Some sheeple will be happy the kids will be back on TV, being exploited and making Mommy rich, but for people with hearts, it just feels sick and wrong. Needless to say, we are a Gosselin-free family. I don't ever want to lay eyes on that sick, disgusting woman again.

Who knows if she's doing the shows for her benefit or not, what she DOESN'T get is how the chance of her kids leading a healthy, normal adult-life is diminishing each minute that family's in the spotlight.

Those children are beautiful and precious and you have mid-life crisis Jon and spray tan, tormenting Kate. It's true we've yet to see how reality children are truly affected as they get older, but it's no doubt it'll be a bumpy road--times eight!

I'm so sick of kate gosslin, she needs to quit the show and get a real job..Shes just doing the show for money not bc she wants people to see a hard working mother..A hard working mother would get a real job.

What does it say about our culture when the post on Kate G generated well over 20 responses, while no other post in the past 2 weeks got more than 2-3?

PghSteve, I know where you're going...but I'll put in a plug for you to stick around and comment on lots of other issues! KS

Kate is not a celeb. She has no talent at all. She is a narcist. 100% about her, although she will trot out the "everything I do is for the kids" BS when needed. So she gave birth to a litter of babies. Big deal, she did it by fertility drugs, not naturally. It's almost 100% certain you will have multiples using the drugs she did to get pregnant. So does that mean every woman that has multiples can get a reality show now? Look at that mentally ill woman "OctoMom". Now she has a reality show, I mean, when is it gonna end. Only when people stop watching this nonsense, so people, STOP WATCHING!!!

She won't go away as long as she generates this much of a response. Unfortunately.

It is bizarre to me that some people write negative mean things when she gave birth to 8 kids, is raising them and supporting them, too. BTW, being on TV shows is working--anyone who wrote that it isn';t obviously has never been on one.
I think she is doing great. My daugher and I watched before all the divorce stuff. It was interesting to see how they managed things with 8 kids. She was always creative and trying to give them special holidays and activitties.
We will watch if there is another show with her and the kids and we wish them all well. It doesn't have to affect the kids in a negative way, and it is obvious that they get to do lots of "regular kid" activities, too., and thanks to the show and their mom's hard work, they have food, and a roof over their heads and fun vacations and a chance to go to college.
No one is perfect as far as Kate being more patient, I think she did a good job with as much as she had to deal with, and I think she wants to do a good job with her kids. Unless you are perfect, then don't criticize her, and if you are--write a book to let the rest of the world know how you are so perfect.

Please do the research on the Dionne Quintuplets before praising the display of multiple children. Sad, sad, story.

This could be the Gosselin children in a few years.

There is so much more to the J & K story that we may never know.

I am retired from the Child & Family Welfare field and know of what I speak.
This is not healthy. Why is Kate so polarizing? Think about it.

I admire Kate and even more so now that she is a Single Parent who is the primary supporter of all these 8 children. What has Jon done since their split/Divorce - absolutely nothing. As far as I know, he is going from one girlfriend to another and is not even working. Kate has maintained her dignity, done what she has had to do to support herself and the children, and people are saying horrible and nasty things about her - all because they are jealous that they couldn't accomplish 10% of what Kate has had to do. I'm on the Go Kate Go Team and will support her in any goal she chooses - she will do them all!newlands