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I watch the show frequently and adore the family but I am very troubled by two things. First, I believe Jon and Kate are in denial about Mady. They consider her to be high-strung and dramatic. I can see that she has bi-polar tendencies. She needs to be evaluated and possibly started in therapy and on medication immediately. I watched the other day while she repeatedly kicked her little sister for coming into her room. I also watched her standing at the railing upstairs and had visions of her tossing over one of the "littles" when she is in one of her moods. She actually frightens me. Please, Gosselin's, get her into therapy before someone gets seriously hurt or before she deteriorates to the point where she cannot be helped as easily as she can now.
The other issue I would like to see addressed is the making of a montage of Kate (from all four seasons) interacting with Jon and the kids so she can sit down and watch how she relates to them. Kate is not only obsessive-compulsive but seriously bi-polar, like Mady. Both need immediate evaluation, therapy and medication. Kate doesn't seem to realize how her behavior towards Jon is affecting her kids and the choices they will make as adults.
Jon is a gem but he needs to develop a backbone, get his wife and child into therapy and refuse to be belittled and abused on national television. He is a good husband and father...many women would kill for a husband like him. He does so much for Kate and around the house and never receives his due. I am giving it to him now. Good work, Jon. Help your family.
Wow! Really, a psych. eval. of ppl based on edited clips of a portion of their lives? Wow! If you were having "visions of her tossing one of the littles" maybe you need the eval and meds.
Its carefully edited to give the perception that TLC wants us to see and sure, if that means the most entertaining bits are the ones where the self titled perfectionest and OCD mom yells at her hubby or her kids have a "meltdown" then that's what they play up.. It's still, loosely scripted, TV...