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Hi Sandra,
I'm glad you decided not to do the show. I've only watched a time or two, but in the show I saw, the visiting mom really connected with the kids, and when the real mom came back she was devistated.
I was trying to think of how you would be able to show unschooling - or how the mom visiting your family could possibly understand. Through my many years, even with people that know us, and the kids, they still can't believe that the kids make their own decisions. If there were some kind of discussion about your background, or beliefs, or something - but what I saw was alot of torment and drama. And it seems to me it is that kind of behaviour that we have really chosen to stay away from, when the family is flowing, communicating and being respectful of each other.
Wouldn't it be grand if there were a series of shows that would tape your own family, and let you answer and explain what you are thinking and how it all works?
Connie
www.homeschoolingreflections.com
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I'm glad you decided not to do the show. I've only watched a time or two, but in the show I saw, the visiting mom really connected with the kids, and when the real mom came back she was devistated.
I was trying to think of how you would be able to show unschooling - or how the mom visiting your family could possibly understand. Through my many years, even with people that know us, and the kids, they still can't believe that the kids make their own decisions. If there were some kind of discussion about your background, or beliefs, or something - but what I saw was alot of torment and drama. And it seems to me it is that kind of behaviour that we have really chosen to stay away from, when the family is flowing, communicating and being respectful of each other.
Wouldn't it be grand if there were a series of shows that would tape your own family, and let you answer and explain what you are thinking and how it all works?
Connie
www.homeschoolingreflections.com
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Kathleen Whitfield
Also, the times I've seen the show, producers went out of their way to find
a family with a particularly contrasting style.
There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember that one
of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I can't separate
them by name right now.
Kathleen
kmckernan@...
on 9/1/06 1:47 PM, conniecolten@... at conniecolten@... wrote:
I'm glad you decided not to do the show. I've only watched a time or two,
but in the show I saw, the visiting mom really connected with the kids, and
when the real mom came back she was devistated.
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a family with a particularly contrasting style.
There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember that one
of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I can't separate
them by name right now.
Kathleen
kmckernan@...
on 9/1/06 1:47 PM, conniecolten@... at conniecolten@... wrote:
I'm glad you decided not to do the show. I've only watched a time or two,
but in the show I saw, the visiting mom really connected with the kids, and
when the real mom came back she was devistated.
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Ren Allen
"There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember
that one of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I
can't separate them by name right now."
Wifeswap is decidedly gentler in it's approach from what we've seen.
Trevor showed me a video from TS that showed one of the Mums reuniting
with her family. She was EVIL to me....stomping around, screaming
about being a "God Warrior" and acting so incredibly hateful. I guess
the other family had a buddha statue (oh horrors). She was the most
hateful, scary woman. Freaked all of us out.
Praise Buddha.;)
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
that one of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I
can't separate them by name right now."
Wifeswap is decidedly gentler in it's approach from what we've seen.
Trevor showed me a video from TS that showed one of the Mums reuniting
with her family. She was EVIL to me....stomping around, screaming
about being a "God Warrior" and acting so incredibly hateful. I guess
the other family had a buddha statue (oh horrors). She was the most
hateful, scary woman. Freaked all of us out.
Praise Buddha.;)
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
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>>"There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember***Wifeswap is decidedly gentler in it's approach from what we've seen.
>>that one of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I
>>can't separate them by name right now.>>"<<
***Trevor showed me a video from TS that showed one of the Mums reuniting
***with her family. She was EVIL to me....stomping around, screaming
***about being a "God Warrior" and acting so incredibly hateful.***
That particular video of that particular woman became famous. The day after
the show aired, the part where that woman went crazy was all over the
internet. It even made it in some national news. It was SO sad I thought...I
felt so bad for both the woman and her family who in the video watched
helplessly as she lost it. She later told of how mortified she was of her
behavior, and how she recognized she went crazy, and that she had just never
been so scared in her life after losing her family to another way of life.
Though I had no sympathy for her point of view or way of life :o/
One show is gentler than the other, not so divisive, and actually showed
some neat stuff some of us here thought, but I thought it was TS. Can't
remember for sure, but some people here really liked the gentler show for a
while.
Jacki
Sandra Dodd
-=-One show is gentler than the other, not so divisive, and actually
showed
some neat stuff some of us here thought, but I thought it was TS. Can't
remember for sure, but some people here really liked the gentler show
for a
while.
-=-
On Trading Spouses, the trick ending is that each family gets $50,000
worth of something, but it's of the visiting mom's choosing. The
outgoing mom dictates how their money will be spent. Once one said a
hot tub, I think, and they've specified things like clothes-shopping-
spree for teen girls, or music equipment. Things the other family
might not have wanted.
Holly said one mom tore the whole agreement/letter up and was wanting
to refuse the things the other family's mom wanted for them. (Was it
that gone-crazy mom maybe?)
All in all, it's a a show about control, isn't it?
(Both of them are, I mean)
Sandra
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showed
some neat stuff some of us here thought, but I thought it was TS. Can't
remember for sure, but some people here really liked the gentler show
for a
while.
-=-
On Trading Spouses, the trick ending is that each family gets $50,000
worth of something, but it's of the visiting mom's choosing. The
outgoing mom dictates how their money will be spent. Once one said a
hot tub, I think, and they've specified things like clothes-shopping-
spree for teen girls, or music equipment. Things the other family
might not have wanted.
Holly said one mom tore the whole agreement/letter up and was wanting
to refuse the things the other family's mom wanted for them. (Was it
that gone-crazy mom maybe?)
All in all, it's a a show about control, isn't it?
(Both of them are, I mean)
Sandra
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Lesa
I love watching the show (Wife Swap) but I would never ever be on it myself.
The families are always so completely opposite. A lot of the time I see
one family being a homeschool family... very family oriented with SAHMs and
the other family very work oriented where both parent work full-time and
even put their kids in daycare on their days off.
I think I've seen Trading Spouses but not in some time. I think I remember
it being gentler... I believe the moms leave giving gifts to their host
family in a letter or something. Like there's so much money that they are
allowed to allocate through the family.
I know that Wife Swap always makes me appreciate my family even more after I
watch it.
Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net
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From: Kathleen Whitfield
Date: 09/02/06 00:56:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] wife swap
Also, the times I've seen the show, producers went out of their way to find
a family with a particularly contrasting style.
There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember that one
of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I can't separate
them by name right now.
Kathleen
kmckernan@...
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The families are always so completely opposite. A lot of the time I see
one family being a homeschool family... very family oriented with SAHMs and
the other family very work oriented where both parent work full-time and
even put their kids in daycare on their days off.
I think I've seen Trading Spouses but not in some time. I think I remember
it being gentler... I believe the moms leave giving gifts to their host
family in a letter or something. Like there's so much money that they are
allowed to allocate through the family.
I know that Wife Swap always makes me appreciate my family even more after I
watch it.
Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net
-------Original Message-------
From: Kathleen Whitfield
Date: 09/02/06 00:56:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] wife swap
Also, the times I've seen the show, producers went out of their way to find
a family with a particularly contrasting style.
There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember that one
of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I can't separate
them by name right now.
Kathleen
kmckernan@...
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Lesa
all that stuff makes me sad... no matter what the issue was that they didn't
agree with. when stuff like that happens... it just makes me want to
scream!
Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net
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From: Ren Allen
Date: 09/03/06 12:44:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] wife swap
"There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember
that one of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I
can't separate them by name right now."
Wifeswap is decidedly gentler in it's approach from what we've seen.
Trevor showed me a video from TS that showed one of the Mums reuniting
with her family. She was EVIL to me....stomping around, screaming
about being a "God Warrior" and acting so incredibly hateful. I guess
the other family had a buddha statue (oh horrors). She was the most
hateful, scary woman. Freaked all of us out.
Praise Buddha.;)
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
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agree with. when stuff like that happens... it just makes me want to
scream!
Lesa
http://lifeacademy.homeschooljournal.net
-------Original Message-------
From: Ren Allen
Date: 09/03/06 12:44:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] wife swap
"There's another in the same genre, "Trading Spouses." I do remember
that one of them had a slightly gentler approach than the other, but I
can't separate them by name right now."
Wifeswap is decidedly gentler in it's approach from what we've seen.
Trevor showed me a video from TS that showed one of the Mums reuniting
with her family. She was EVIL to me....stomping around, screaming
about being a "God Warrior" and acting so incredibly hateful. I guess
the other family had a buddha statue (oh horrors). She was the most
hateful, scary woman. Freaked all of us out.
Praise Buddha.;)
Ren
learninginfreedom.com
Yahoo! Groups Links
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