User:Melvillefan

=It's Better To Give Than To Receive=


 * ''There has been some controversy over the recent episode of Jon and Kate + 8 entitled Giving Back. The premise of the episode was to tag along with the Gosselin family as they traveled to Tennessee to St. Jude's Hospital.  The Gosselins came bearing 'gifts' that were donated by Kmart and delivered to the hospital by the family.  It was supposedly a win/win situation for all involved since St. Jude's Hospital would get some free publicity and Jon and Kate + 8 had another episode for this already mundane season.


 * While St. Jude's Hospital is a worthy charity that deserves all the support and recognition it can get, one has to wonder why the Gosselin family didn't give back to the community that helped them out after the birth of the sextuplets. Family and friends pitched in to help care for the babies and community members sent donations and other necessities to help the Gosselin family during a very stressful time.  Another controversy is why did the Gosselin family have to stay at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, which is obviously a very expensive hotel. Was it because TLC and Figure 8 productions were paying for everything and they might as well 'live it up'?


 * Kate kept saying that they were trying to get the children to learn that 'It's Better To Give Than It Is To Receive' but did that lesson actually get through to the children? It's been established that the gifts were donated by Kmart.  Even the ten dollars that was donated by the Gosselin family was handed to them by one of the crew members.  So the lesson that was actually taught was 'It's Better To Give Than To Receive' if you're on a reality show and your sponsors are paying for it.


 * I'll admit that I loved the show when it first came on because Jon and Kate + 8 was really about a family of ten struggling to make ends meet. You could tell every dollar and every coupon was accounted for.  Family and friends were always around to help Jon and Kate out.  Now the show is just one large product endorsement squeezed in to thirty minutes.  Friends and family have seemed to have disappeared in to the Bermuda Triangle.  Most of the episodes now are about the family traveling to the next book signing.


 * Jon and Kate + 8 is now past its prime. The children are growing up and although they are cute, their behavior and lack of basic grammar skills is getting quite annoying.  TLC and Figure 8, if you read any of the blogs on the Internet, please take some advise and cancel this show.  I'm sure there are other large families with the same type of financial problems as Jon and Kate had and would love to have a chance at making a better life for their kids.''