This is becoming painful to watch! The birthday show was awkward and sad. The kids DO seem anxious and quieter than usual. I like Kate (not a popular stance!) and I used to like Jon, but I think she needs to lighten up and he needs to grow up. I hear him whining about how young he still is and her freaking out over germs and just want to shake them both. He was a bonafide ADULT when he got into this deal and a little dirt never killed a kid! I've been married 22 years and raised five kids....it's a tough life for sure. My marriage nearly broke up at the 10 year mark and it CAN be healed. But you have to TRULY put the kids first and WANT it. My prayers are with this Christian family....I want to see them make it!

personally I do not feel that the State of Pa should have allowed the show from the get go and the kids do deserve to have some priavate moments and they get none of that being on camera all the time .

I never did like Kate from day one and I still do not like her she is obnoxious and the money has went to her head for sure. Its all about her and I feel she is exploiting the kids for the money and its wrong .

Before the sixtuplets she was a nurse and after the children reached a certian age she could have put the kids in pre school and went back to work as a nurse and given her children a chance at a normal childhood without all the cameras .. in their lives and maybe her marriage would still be intact if she was not so obnoxious

Right on PJD-----

I totally agree. I used to be a big "fan" of the show and watch it regularly, and now I never watch it. I think it has been taken too far and should have ended a few seasons ago. I think the kids should be able to grow up like kids and not in front of the media and paparazzi all the time.

I enjoyed watching Kate shop, cook soup, and fold laundry. Now she has passed on those chores and the kids, it seems,to "assistants" in favor of spa days and beach trips. I don't watch anymore.

I became disenchanted with J&K+8 the episode they moved into their mansion and continued to act like they were "just simple folks doing this on their own."

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okay Jon, you promised you would never do another show when your children indicated they didn't want to do it anymore. Take a look at U-tube where right before the shooting started Maddy asked for some water. Kate refused her the water, then asked one of her assistants to throw her a bottle of water, took a big sip and with held it from Maddy! Kate in the most hostile way looked at the younger children (with the most reprehensible face and ordered them to sit still.
Next, it is revealed that Kate grabbed one of the young girls, hit her on her bottom as the young child tried to shield herself while crying out loud. Finally the two 8 year olds were asked what they thought of their parents. The silence was deafening--Cara answered in a voice you couldn't hear. Maddy said "well, they are okay, but I still like Daddy better.

I will not watch one more episode of Kate getting increasingly out of hand with the children. They can never come into the parents room again? Is she kidding? What if one of the children is in danger? Kate is acting like a very scary mother. She drinks a huge sip of water ONLY after Maddy says she is thirsty, she "spanks" little 5 year old and then remarks "I will discipline my children as i see fit!" With her increasing anger, I am beginning to fear for the safety and certainly the welfare of these children. Jon, PLEASE get back to those kids before someone gets hurt! It wouldn't surprise if CPS got called out there pretty soon.

Kate I have two grown beautiful young women as daughters. I never once layed a hand on either of them. The rule in our house was "hands are not for hitting, they are for loving'! I didn't have 8 children, you are right, but you could give me 20 right now and I would never humiliate publicly or privately one single child. Children have egos, they have self esteem, they have pride--how dare you. I only wish you were sitting here now asking mady for that sip of water. What did she learn? No more, absolutely no more of this train reck of ten. Only prayers--please Jon open your eyes! Karma is heading Kate's way! I see it on some other news show!

I'm really so sick of people making a huge deal about every little minute thing that Kate or Jon does. Do you really think that your b@#$%ing is going to solve anything? Really. If you them to fade away, then stop watching the show, stop reading the articles, and stop making them desirable. One of my co-workers (PA State Police Trooper) almost hit the paparazzi outside their home in PA a week or so ago. There were so many crowded outside their property and the Trooper was told they can $10,000 for a picture of Kate. Why the hell would you people want to promote that crap???? All of your gossip is making sleezeballs like the photogs rich. My vote is to just let the Gosselins fade. Hopefully their children can be normal someday.

I have stopped watching. Used to love the show, the kids, the family, but agree with most of what has been said.

And, a slight case of of guilt and hypocrisy. We all keep crying exploitation, and urging the parents to step in. But in "reality"... we should all look in the mirror. There would be no show if millions of viewers did not tune in every week to watch all the exploitation.

From now on, I'm choosing to just say no.