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Just last night, I watched the show while putting puzzles together. Granted
I didn't pay that much attention but I caught enough.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to participate in what seems to be a very
hurtful show. The participants don't look happy and it certainly doesn't look
like fun. But then again, why do they complain and fight? They choose to be
on this show, right? It's not like some agency came in a snatched you out of
your life and stuck you in another. It's only 2 weeks!!! Each week, the
table is turned. I can't imagine that it would be so hard for 2 short weeks.
Especially if you chose to do it. If it was for months or something, THAT would
be hard. I guess I don't get it. Like Survivor and similar, I can imagine
how hard it could be. But I don't understand the tears and "I just want to go
home". Why sign up? It's not like you were forced to do it against your
will. Must just be for ratings.

I couldn't imagine being away for 2 weeks. I would never want my kids to
participate in it. That's what bothered me the most. I don't think it's
healthy. Even for 2 weeks.

Pamela


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nellebelle

>>>I'm not sure why anyone would want to participate in what seems to be a very
hurtful show.>>>

$$$$$$$ !!!

Mary Ellen

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Rain wishes we could do it. Mostly for the money - that $50,000 each
family gets would go a long, long way for us (although I'd probably end
up swapped with someone who would put it towards private school tuition
or tutoring :-P ). Plus she's not a little kid, and she feels like she
could hold her own with whoever, and it might be interesting to get that
kind of peek into how other people live - an anthrpologist in
schooly-land. If all else fails she could go next door and hang with the
unschooling neighbors. Plus, knowing us, they'd swap me with a
neat-freak, so we'd get a clean house out of it, too.

Alas, being a single parent puts me out of the running. I'm not sure I'd
be up for it, either, having sort of major privacy issues.

Dar
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:53:36 EST b229d655@... writes:
>
> Just last night, I watched the show while putting puzzles together.
> Granted
> I didn't pay that much attention but I caught enough.
>
> I'm not sure why anyone would want to participate in what seems to
> be a very
> hurtful show. The participants don't look happy and it certainly
> doesn't look
> like fun. But then again, why do they complain and fight? They
> choose to be
> on this show, right? It's not like some agency came in a snatched
> you out of
> your life and stuck you in another. It's only 2 weeks!!! Each
> week, the
> table is turned. I can't imagine that it would be so hard for 2
> short weeks.
> Especially if you chose to do it. If it was for months or
> something, THAT would
> be hard. I guess I don't get it. Like Survivor and similar, I can
> imagine
> how hard it could be. But I don't understand the tears and "I just
> want to go
> home". Why sign up? It's not like you were forced to do it against
> your
> will. Must just be for ratings.
>
> I couldn't imagine being away for 2 weeks. I would never want my
> kids to
> participate in it. That's what bothered me the most. I don't think
> it's
> healthy. Even for 2 weeks.
>
> Pamela
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My children made me promise to never ever do the swap!!! They don't want
anyone else here. Considering how relaxed I am and how neat I am, they
really fear who would get swapped here!!!

Mary
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>
> Rain wishes we could do it. Mostly for the money - that $50,000 each
> family gets would go a long, long way for us (although I'd probably end
> up swapped with someone who would put it towards private school tuition
> or tutoring :-P ). Plus she's not a little kid, and she feels like she
> could hold her own with whoever, and it might be interesting to get that
> kind of peek into how other people live - an anthrpologist in
> schooly-land. If all else fails she could go next door and hang with the
> unschooling neighbors. Plus, knowing us, they'd swap me with a
> neat-freak, so we'd get a clean house out of it, too.
>
> Alas, being a single parent puts me out of the running. I'm not sure I'd
> be up for it, either, having sort of major privacy issues.
>
> Dar
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:53:36 EST b229d655@... writes:
> >
> > Just last night, I watched the show while putting puzzles together.
> > Granted
> > I didn't pay that much attention but I caught enough.
> >
> > I'm not sure why anyone would want to participate in what seems to
> > be a very
> > hurtful show. The participants don't look happy and it certainly
> > doesn't look
> > like fun. But then again, why do they complain and fight? They
> > choose to be
> > on this show, right? It's not like some agency came in a snatched
> > you out of
> > your life and stuck you in another. It's only 2 weeks!!! Each
> > week, the
> > table is turned. I can't imagine that it would be so hard for 2
> > short weeks.
> > Especially if you chose to do it. If it was for months or
> > something, THAT would
> > be hard. I guess I don't get it. Like Survivor and similar, I can
> > imagine
> > how hard it could be. But I don't understand the tears and "I just
> > want to go
> > home". Why sign up? It's not like you were forced to do it against
> > your
> > will. Must just be for ratings.
> >
> > I couldn't imagine being away for 2 weeks. I would never want my
> > kids to
> > participate in it. That's what bothered me the most. I don't think
> > it's
> > healthy. Even for 2 weeks.
> >
> > Pamela
> >
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kayb85

--- In [email protected], freeform@j... wrote:
> Rain wishes we could do it. Mostly for the money - that $50,000 each
> family gets would go a long, long way for us

Trading spouses gives the 50,000. Wife swap doesn't give anything as
far as I can see. I don't know why people would sign up for wife
swap when they could get the 50000 from trading spouses.

(although I'd probably end
> up swapped with someone who would put it towards private school
tuition
> or tutoring :-P

Now THAT would be a nightmare!

Sheila

julie w

freeform@... wrote:

> Plus, knowing us, they'd swap me with a
> neat-freak, so we'd get a clean house out of it, too.
>
hummmmm.
Knowing my kid he'd put up with a lot for $50,000 as long as he was
getting a cut of it.....
Julie W in AR



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--- In [email protected], freeform@j... wrote:
> Alas, being a single parent puts me out of the running. I'm not
sure I'd
> be up for it, either, having sort of major privacy issues.
>
> Dar

I saw one with a single parent, and the 17 year old daughter was
the "spouse".....Don't count yourself out!
Jessica

Robyn Coburn

<<<<The participants don't look happy and it certainly doesn't look
like fun. But then again, why do they complain and fight? They choose to
be on this show, right? It's not like some agency came in a snatched you
out of your life and stuck you in another.>>>>

Any bets on how much input the children in most of these traditionally
parented households had on the decision?

<<<< It's only 2 weeks!!! Each week, the
table is turned. I can't imagine that it would be so hard for 2 short
weeks.>>>>>

I guess this is why they want older kids mostly. 2 weeks would seem like an
eternity to Jayn who is 5.

TV is about entertainment. Entertainment comes from conflict. Often the
first thing you learn when you study acting (as an adult that is, I have no
experience of kids' acting classes) is find the conflict in the scene.
Sometimes it is with the audience's assumptions or prior knowledge.

Robyn L. Coburn


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In a message dated 1/27/05 10:58:12 AM, b229d655@... writes:

<< But then again, why do they complain and fight? They choose to be
on this show, right? >>

They want the $50,000

But the one you saw had a wife really complaining that the other mom had
earmarked $15000 toward a motorcycle for her husband. That one was particularly
harsh, as everyone was happier with the one mom, and the family wasn't very
glad to see the other one come back.

Marty and Holly and I were joking (though it's not all that funny) about TV
specials a few years out about divorces caused by that show.

-=-I couldn't imagine being away for 2 weeks. I would never want my kids to
participate in it. That's what bothered me the most. I don't think it's
healthy. Even for 2 weeks. -=-

That's what got to me, too. Sometimes the moms are harsh to the kids about
their habits or interests or how their moms are. But even when the mom is
joy-mom, happy-happy, it will make those kids sad to see their own rules-bound mom
return, so either they're unhappy during or after, but most I've seen seemed
to be instructive in some ways and illuminating for some people and way worse
than expected for most of them.

Sandra

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In a message dated 1/27/05 12:52:44 PM, mummy124@... writes:

<< My children made me promise to never ever do the swap!!! >>

My kids too. They have NO interest. They watch it like a trainwreck, if
anyone happens to notice it's on, but they feel sorry for the kids.

I feel sorry for the husbands. They don't have their regular confidant,
while weirdness is all around.

-=- in just one week, the mainstream

kids wouldn't get past the "let me take everything I can because it's

available now, never was before, and never may be again" stage.

That's all the people watching on tv would see...mainstream kids

gorging themselves on stuff the mainstreamers perceive as bad. -=-

True!

-=-Trading spouses gives the 50,000. Wife swap doesn't give anything as

far as I can see. I don't know why people would sign up for wife

swap when they could get the 50000 from trading spouses. -=-

Oh. Trading Spouses is the one that does the two week swap and the cash,
though. I thought that was the one that had been seen. Sorry. That was the
one where the mom was really angry about the motorcycle.

Sandra