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Originally Posted by LikeASista

OMG!! I am ashamed to say it, but I absolutely can not WAIT for next week's episode. Kim "G", Lord!! Comedy at it's finest.

Now, after watching tonight's episode, all I can say is that we can make all the presumptions we want about Danielle, but this woman seems to really love those daughters of hers. I mean, despite the parties, the dinners, the attempts to promote herself in the process, she uses what appears to be a careful approach when dealing with them. Now, whether it's all an act for the cameras of the show or not remains to be seen, but one thing's for certain, she seems to have pretty good parenting skills ... at least in my opinion. She knows how to encourage them without pushing them, and she lets them know how proud she is of them, thus establishing herself as the parental figure for her children (which is more than I can say for Jacqueline and Ashley's relationship, who seem too much like sisters for there to be any REAL parenting going on (e.g., one second they're giggly, and the next they're at each other's throats)). And, I'll be honest in saying that, for a while, I really thought Danielle's daughters were, as Caroline put it, "socially awkward", but after seeing their father tonight, those girls are a regular chip off the ol' block, ... even the awkward stares they get from him. FREAKY!!

I haven't seen tonights episode, so I can't really comment about that, but I totally agree with you about Danielle. As much as I think she's a nutjob, she seems like she's doing a darn good parenting job. Some of the things she does is questionable (like allowing her daughters to be in the know about all the drama of her life) but no parent is perfect. I think she is doing a better job of parenting than Jacqueline did with Ashley......although that might have had to do with Jaqueline's age at the time. And although Teresa's daughters are brats at times, I think she does a heck of a job as well.

That is probably the only thing I can like about Danielle.