Sirk

It's been a while since I took sex ed so you're going to have to explain to me where 'senior citizens' would come into play.

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Trina

Excerpts from
Baby Borrowers TV Show | Teen Parenting, Relationships, Volunteer Couples, Social Experiment | NBC.com


"NBC's upcoming reality series "The Baby Borrowers" is an intriguing new social experiment based on the hit British program that asks five diverse teenage couples -- ages 18-20 -- to fast-track to adulthood by setting up a home, getting a job and becoming caring parents first to babies, toddlers, pre-teens and their pets, teenagers and senior citizens."


"After three surprising, intense days, each teen couple will bid bye-bye to the baby and receive a toddler as their fast-forward adult life progresses. They will have to cope with typical "terrible twos" behavior, including pouty tantrums, potty training and other messes. Three days later, the weary couples must face the reality of parenting several sassy pre-teens/"tweeners" at once -- each with a family pet in tow, adding to their responsibilities.
Seventy-two hours later, the teenagers arrive, thereby perhaps providing them with a mirror image of their own recent relationships with their parents. To complete the cycle of life, the experiment ends with as couples are graced with the opportunity to care for a senior citizen, including some with health issues, who represent what might be in store for them in the distant future."

Sirk

So it's not just about parenting, it's a 2 week course in "Your adult life is going to suck. Your kids will hate you and your parents will die."?

I'm going to start drinking and sleeping around just from the previews.

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HappyMomma

Too bad they are skipping the f******g fours. That should convince anybody.

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budnkota

They did those dolls w/some of the kids at my facility, but they didn't have a key and it recorded their responses... how long they let it cry w/o attending to it, all that stuff. Pretty high tech toys. I guess one of the boys had one that cried all night long. Staff, the other boys, everybody was trying to help and it just wouldn't stop crying. It finally stopped around 5 am, but the director came to get the kid at 8 am for a trip w/the baby to walmart. Baby started up again in the store, and this poor, sleep deprived kid apparently held it up over his head and pled with it "Why, baby? WHY?"
LOL. Probably the most effective birth controller he's ever had...

He must have had it wrapped in a blanket or something, b/c I guess that the director kind of indicated to startled onlookers that it wasn't real

dadof3boys

I think they should make those "doll" practice babies spit up about six ounces on your shoulder right after you change into work clothes -- and about one inch from where you put the burp rag.

I think the show sounds interesting, but I couldn't watch it if my baby were involved. It would be like "Fear Factor" for new parents.

fallon

did anyone else watch this last night? Thoughts?

I personally found it pretty interesting although it was more like extreme babysitting then actual parenting

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Teresa

DD and I watched. I don't know how the actual parents held it together as well as they did in some cases. I would have had to go in there and snatch my child away from them, and tell them I wasn't going to let my child be neglected like that. If they can't even handle the infants, will be interesting to see how they do with the other age groups.

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fallon

I personally always found my newborns to be the easiest. Some of the teens are doing really well while others are going very poor. I was relieved to see that there was a professional nanny shadowing the couples at all time for the safety of the babies

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