Would you ever subject your family to that show Wife Swap?...
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I dont know...I think it's important for our kids to know that not all families do the same things we do, or they do it in different ways...but I dont think I would do it with my family, too dangerous.
If my kids were 10 and up I'd do it in a heartbeat. The whole family gets to walk a mile in someone elses shoes.
I agree with 1day. If my kids were older than 10 I would probably do it. I have a three year old and 10 month old, so that'll be a no. I'm too scared to have some woman I don't know with my kids so young. They would be too little to understand what's going on.
I am thinking there is no woman bold enough to step in my shoes with all my kids and my schedule LOL :wub: All JK aside no I would not do it sure nice the $$$$ but for me my family life is just that and how I want to talk about it or let any one into it is up to me and DH we have few select friends ( Naturally I have all of you)
This is so another ball game and then having it all air on TV No thank you! ( You know what I mean?) More Power to those who do it.</SIZE>[/FONT]
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This is so another ball game and then having it all air on TV No thank you! ( You know what I mean?) More Power to those who do it.</SIZE>[/FONT]</SIZE>[/FONT]
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Maaaayyyyybe if they were older. That's a big maybe. The money would be helpful but the whole world judging me and my parenting techniques is too much. Plus even though there are cameras all around you never knoiw what kind of freak could be coming into your house.1dayatatime said:
Foos thats the whole point. Stepping out of your comfort zone and realizing hey the way we do things is pretty awesome/craptastic and then going from there. We are usually too close to see our errors.
The last one I watched was a very stricted Jewish family switched places with a semi normal family. It was crazy watching this poor Jewish woman try to find Koser food in the mid west. I think it teaches even the viewer a new respect for things that are different. Your right though sometimes the "other" family seems like they escaped from a mental hospitial.
LOL I know!!! I watch this show every time I see it going while channel surfing, and I always complain about this exact thing. It's always so unrealistic because they go to great lengths to find two COMPLETELY opposite families, and the families are always super extreme about their lifestyle, it seems too much for me.FooserX said:The thing it seems with that show is that it's always one structured nice family switching places with some out of control white trash family where the kids get to cuss and punch the mom while the dad doesn't do jack.
It's so one sided!
I would consider it, for the money. Once Eli was older. However, I've thought of it before and I don't think my family would make it on the show because we're too normal, too average. Nothing super extreme about us. Most of the families they have on there actually appear to HAVE something kind of messed up in some way or another about them. I think that's what they go for, to make the show interesting. Though I'm not religious, if someone wanted to take my kid to church, or if they wanted to make him play with farm animals or do tai chi, I would be like... "um...ok". lol.
I doubt that we would be chosen for the show. We are quite boring and my husband is so laid back and introverted that the other mom's attempt to inject drama into our household wouldn't even get much of a rise from him. My kids would hate it, especially the youngest. Ugh. No thank you.
I don't think I would want my family to do this show. I like the idea of different cultures and a mile in another shoes, but the people they pick are so extreme, I don't know if there would be any real value in that, unless you are the opposite extreme yourself.
That's us. we're boring. Nothing extreme about us. We'd never get picked. I asked my wife one time that if we were to do it "what kind of replacement they would give me". She couldn't answer, I think that she didn't want to offend me. When I suggested Claudia Schiffer she just gave me that look. Husbands you know what I'm talking about.eleventy1!! said: