The sextuplets were born at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center.
http://www.fe.psu.edu/32433.htm
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Kate speaks at Penn State Fayette campus
The sextuplets were born at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center.
http://www.fe.psu.edu/32433.htm
574 sediments (sic) from readers:
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How can someone be "always skeptical" about this? It's a piece of paper. It's not a water bottle, it's not a ball, it's not a pencil. Did Kate even know why she gave him permission to retrieve it?
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Audible Click said... chefsummer said... (snip)
All good points and if it wasn't Kate the sitter should be fired but. I highly doubt that will happen.
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Let me reiterate, Kate said she gave him permission
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I hear ya,
I was just hoping Kate wan't that dumb to admit she let it happen or give permission for him to do it.
Don't cha just luuurve how she says the tabloids don't have any facts and then there is a picture attached to the "story that has no facts" of her kid under the van?
That picture you see....that's a figment of your imagination people. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Doesn't matter WHY he went under the van. To save a puppy, to grab a million dollar lotto ticket, or retrieve a water bottle. The fact remains she allowed him to put his little life in danger while she sat on her butt most like playing with her cell phone.
If Jon did that, oh my Lord she would have him in court so fast to strip him of joint custody, and the crazy sheeple would have no mercy and would burn him at the stake.
Here's my issue with Kate's latest "job" (cough, gag): Does "working" as a guest blogger on a couponing blog seriously pay more than a salaried, professional nursing job? Does it provide health benefits, a retirement plan, or any form of job security?
And here's the reality: Kate is clearly digging her heals into the dirt, refusing to be dragged back into "mediocrity." She'll take any Z-list job out there in show-biz (and I use that term in its lightest form, given that a speaking engagement to a few college co-eds, and a guest spot on an obscure couponing blog hardly count as A-list celebrity gigs). This is what infuriates me about Kate. Despite what she claims, she's NOT interested in supporting her 8-count-em-8 kids. If she were she'd do the responsible thing and realize that the gravy train has ended, and it's time to take on a secure, full-time job that will actually provide for them. Instead, she takes on what to real celebrities would qualify as a "side gig" -- i.e., something fun or interesting as a diversion from the REAL gig that actually pays a lot of money -- but makes that her sole source of income. That's just damn irresponsible and (big surprise here) completely selfish on Kate's part. She doesn't care about supporting the kids. She cares about being a SuperStah. She's so narcissistic and delusional that she really believes she can still make a living on TV/in the media. She refuses to see the writing on the wall, and by doing so she's putting her kids' welfare in jeopardy. Nope, she doesn't care about supporting the kids. If she did truly care about providing for them, we wouldn't be seeing her clawing for her Z-list gigs. We'd hear that she's taken on a real job – um, kind of like the real parent, the kids’ dad, has done.
Help me understand now, because I strive to be a mother of the year just like Kate. If you actually give permission for your child to do something dangerous, then as long as they had permission it's safe and nothing will happen?
Cool!
I am so sick of hearing how amazing and incredible kHATE is at managing her life as a parent and provider.
It's a stab in the neck to all you REAL mothers out there that do this without accolade and fanfare every damn day. Making nice dinners, packing sensible lunches and maintaining a nice, loving home for your family. It's hard but you eventually figure it out and it works.
My ex-wife is an incredible mother who got her nursing degree at age 35 a few years ago (and then left me, haha - another story for a different time.) The poor woman works the graveyard shift as a nurse 3 times a week (40 hrs) on the days I have the kids, and then switches from vampire mode the other days of the week to life a normal life when she has the kids. She is stubborn, determined and hard working and doing her best to make a great home for our kids when they stay at her place. We work together as parents and I probably speak to her MORE now that we arent together than we did as husband and wife. We do this because we will always be parents together. Always.
Every time I read about kHATE's stupid, pathetic existence I get angered for REAL people who dont have 1% of the opportunity as her and STILL never complain.
That woman will never be happy. She is a vile, disgusting FREAK of a parent and I cant wait for the day that she finally gets bored and gives Jon the kids.
They had Katw and her new JOB on insider edition I bet she loved that.
Bah Bah Black Sheep said...
(snip)How can someone be "always skeptical" about this? It's a piece of paper. It's not a water bottle, it's not a ball, it's not a pencil. Did Kate even know why she gave him permission to retrieve it?
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
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The way you quoted my post is rather confusing. Are you speaking to the poster Always Skeptical or to me, Audible Click?
"Honestly"? Those pix of her with the CouponCabin bag could not have been more unappealing. There is not one of her smiling--which, given that she is supposedly out and about with her coupons, saving $$$, makes NO sense whatsoever. She looks sullen and scornful, almost defiant. Is THIS the image they were looking for?
You know, without a major attitude adjustment, this woman appears unfit for ANY sort of employment. We all know how horrendously she acted in front of cameras for years. So who in their right minds would want her representing them? I am baffled.
Oh, she just tweeted she has "work" tomorrow--anyone ?
Admin. if you would please let me defend my statement I swear I will leave.
I did not say Kat should recant or never post here. I said if she doesn't recant she should not post that she cares about the kids here.
I do know I do not have the right to tell anyone they can't post here. It was my opinion, through my anger, which I will apologize for voicing my opinion in anger, that is all. I see now it would be misinterpretation as a demand. Again, sorry Kat.
No Mo Worrin Bout Me.
I applaud you Sport!
Her sob story just holds no water.
Those other nutty people with sextuplets, Brian and Jenny Masche, divorced and they seem to be able to manage just fine with regular mediocre jobs and no tv show. Of course, though, they don't have a mansion with 26 acres, sportscars, and half the $hit Kate wants to maintain.
"Work" tomorrow? Sure, she's going to go all over town carrying a shopping bag with the name of the website she's allegedly blogging for, and she's going to look sullen and angry while she's doing it.
That's what "work" is for her now.
I took another look at the picture of Collin under the BBB and you're right, he's reaching for a piece of paper. When Kate goes in to damage control mode she shows herself for the idiot that she is. Giving a child "permission" to crawl under any vehicle (especially in a parking lot) is worse than just saying admitting that you didn't realize at the time what he'd done and your statement should have been: "I didn't realize that he crawled under the vehicle to grab something he'd dropped. I've spoken to him about how dangereous that can be and he will not do it again." When, oh when are you going to learn to think BEFORE you speak? I think that the child safety group should be even more upset over the fact that Kate said she gave him "permission" to crawl under the BBB.
Has anyone said if the van engine was running or turned off?
Good Lord....It's gone from bad to worse. Now she's throwing Jon's kid under the bus.
I'm with BigFanofKate ;-) - I can hardly wait to hear how the Penn State talk went. I hope someone was able to go and will give us a recap.
All I know so far is that Steve was there and
Kate is very proud of herself.
It would be worse if Kate said she didn't know he was there. Whether she didn't know or whether she gave him permission, she is definitely not being vigilant when it comes to the her children. You never for an instant should take your eyes off your children when in a parking lot. Anything can happen. There should be no reason for damage control in the first place.
She lets them go under trees whose branches are falling and now she lets one of them crawl under the bus. What has to happen before she will actually think about the safety of her kids?
Kate is no longer on TV, yet so many can't stop talking about her. Do you miss her?
God they have Kate's couponing on HLN/Showbiz tonight.
Miss her so much they are turning on each other.
The Bitter End said...
Good Lord....It's gone from bad to worse. Now she's throwing Jon's kid under the bus.
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LOL, but sad.
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Anonymous said...
Kate is no longer on TV, yet so many can't stop talking about her. Do you miss her?
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The issue isn't whether or not she's on TV. The issue is that she is still exploiting her children by spending the money THEY earned on things she WANTS, while avoiding and ignoring them every chance she gets.
Oh, and she's a fascinating illustration of incredibly irresponsible parenting. Sort of an everyday walking example of how NOT to raise your kids.
bobbi said...
Miss her so much they are turning on each other
What happened to her Demon Highness's worship sites? Members dropping like flies that you have to come to this site? Or just that you all have come across as "bat shit crazy" and is getting called out for it that you need to come here? Get a clue sheeple!
I'm with BigFanofKate ;-) - I can hardly wait to hear how the Penn State talk went. I hope someone was able to go and will give us a recap.
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I don't think BigFanofK8G is as interested in hearing how it went as she is to SEE if Kate took her advice and wore autumn colors and cute little boots!
The Bitter End said...
Good Lord....It's gone from bad to worse. Now she's throwing Jon's kid under the bus.
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Thanks for my laugh for the night! :)
Sport - Kudos to you and your ex-wife for putting the needs and best interests of your children above anything else.
I can't believe she has to announce how thrilled she is to be having "another work day". It really does make her current situation sound much more sad, doesn't it?
I'm falling asleep just counting sheep(le) over here.
The Bitter End - thanks for the laugh. You should submit it to Jimmy Kimmel or someone like that. Priceless!
Radar has the photos in reverse order:
(1) Kids getting off bus
(2) Collin crawling under BBB and reaching for a piece of paper on ground
(3) Collin crawling back out from under BBB
If you look at Photo 1 of the kids getting off the school bus, the second girl (name?) drops a book and has a piece of paper in her hand. It seems as if she might have also dropped the paper and it flew under the BBB. In that first photo, you can tell there is NO paper under the BBB when the kids are getting off the school bus.
Kate's tweet:
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
Re stupid article: it was on Tuesday&kind Collin offered w my permission2retrieve Hannah's dropped h2o bottle. Typical tab tale; no facts!
November 3rd, 9:09 PM
I love the way it's a "stupid article", but damn, she sure loved Radar Online back in the day, didn't she? Plus, here she goes again correcting what DAY the photos were taken. Who cares? Not relevant in any way. Then, she LIES again and says it was to retrieve a water bottle. Either she's lying or she didn't have a clue what the kids were doing. "Typical tab tale; no facts!" As others have already pointed out, really? No facts? Did she see the pics and the article? Is she really that big of a moron?
Also, as others said, she is just so stupid and irresponsible if she thinks saying she gave him permission makes any of this better. It makes it far worse! Instead of it being about how she should have been standing next to the BBB when they got off the school bus so she could have protected them in a parking lot and been there to stop an impetuous child who decided to crawl under the car, it's worse. She sat inside the BBB and told him it was okay to crawl under the BBB. Obviously that is SO dangerous and what is she teaching them about safety around vehicles? Plus, the bottom of the BBB had to be very hot. She is just so damn stupid.
Reading the insane sheeple defending her on Twitter this evening has just been astonishing. They are all beyond hope, they will truly defend anything she does. They tweeted excuse after excuse, plus they blamed the "rags" for snapping pics. It's sickening.
And then Khate ended the night with this tweet:
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
I'm signing off tonight! So busy! I love it! :) Tweet ya tomorrow! Another work day! I'm so thrilled! :) GN!
November 3rd, 11:00 PM
The sheeple are giddy, wondering what Khate's "work" is. I have to agree with those who commented that this coupon site is just a very small side gig, not a JOB at all. But, Khate will now talk nonstop about how she "works". Give me a break. (Btw, I note that she is not following that site on Twitter yet, dumb.)
In the meantime, she must be going through the kids' money at a very rapid pace between the household expenses and tuition. I don't see how she can keep that up for long without some real, steady income and cutting her expenses back. She has an obligation to the kids to secure a steady job and save as much of THEIR money for them when they grow up. They sure as hell EARNED it, giving up all privacy and their childhood!
Btw, Khate, you slammed Jon's job as being "mediocre". Well, the joke's on you because writing (ghost writing) a sporadic blog on a coupon site is FAR BELOW mediocre. It's pathetic. You wish you were half as good as "mediocre".
As far as Australia, I do not for one second think that Khate is spending one DIME of her money on that trip next weekend! Someone mentioned that perhaps the hotel is contributing her room. The rest has to be paid by the zoo. Also, I was wondering about TLC. Isn't her show airing now in Australia? Do you think that they might want her to do some publicity there, so they're willing to spring for this trip?
Also, about her little talk today, I had to laugh at this tweet:
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
Done @penn state eberlycampus! Can I say FUN?I loved mtg ALL of u&thx 4warm welcome! I LOVE SPEAKING! Hope u ea were encouraged-I was! Xo
November 3rd, 3:46 PM
LOl, yet again, Khate is too lazy to look up the correct Twitter name. She does this all the time! That is NOT the Twitter name for PSU; its not even a valid Twitter account.
Sorry, one more thing:
Kate Gosselin
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
@MiloandJack for first time ever I had a speech written! Needs polish but from heart as usual :)
November 3rd, 3:54 PM
I find that wording from Khate a little strange. I think she would have tweeted "I wrote my speech". Saying "I had a speech written" could mean she actually had someone write it FOR her. I think she has a new manager or agent. I mentioned the woman's name after her radio gig last week. I'll post more about that later, but I think she could have some help these days, now that TLC is gone, (because heaven knows she needs it!).
From PaMa:
Well, I made it through Kate’s presentation at Penn State Fayette and want to make my comments now, so I can wipe the whole experience out of my mind. In the lobby outside the auditorium, there were several signs posted, “Any Disrespect for Penn State Guests Will Not Be Tolerated.” If I were Bette Davis, I would have thought, “Hold onto your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” But, I didn’t see any armed security around or any placard-carrying picketers. And the people milling around looked pretty mild-mannered, so I figured it was safe to enter the auditorium. To start off, she was 25 minutes late coming out, which is a bad way to kick off a speaking tour … but the good thing is that it gave me plenty of time to check out the audience. The auditorium appears to hold about 425 people. Because everyone was spread out everywhere, it was a bit hard to tell exactly how many were there, but my best guestimate is 200-225. Of that total, it seemed that maybe 20% were college students and/or affiliated with the organization sponsoring Kate. The audience members were all ages, from 18-75, with a few kids who must have skipped school thrown into the mix. To me, the preponderance seemed to be in the 30-40 year-old range and the 50-60 year-old range. About 95% or more were women, but there were a few downtrodden-looking older men who must have gotten dragged along by their wives. There was one 40-ish looking man, sitting by himself, who, if I had to pick a stereotypical-looking child porn pervie, he’d be the one. Lurping in on conversations around me and in the lobby waiting to get in, I think I can safely say that this was a crowd of devoted fans.
Set up on the stage was a microphone and 2 stool, one tall and one shorter. I knew Steve was there, because a couple of times he peeked his head out a side door, I suppose to make sure the devoted followers were showing up. I was thinking the second stool was for Steve, so he could protect Kate if any zealous fans stormed the stage. But someone set a bottle of water on the shorter stool and I knew then Kate was going to go it alone. At 12:25, they announced that the big moment had arrived and that there would be Q&A’s afterwards, followed by a Meet & Greet in the lobby.
At that point, Kate, carrying a stack of cheat sheets, clomps across the stage to her stool. (If she insists on wearing those really high heels, she really should sign up for some lessons in how to walk in them.) And … wait for this … Kate looked pretty good. I think we’ve seen this outfit before … it was a form-fitting print dress (blue, white, black/brown swirls, ¾ sleeves, maybe 3-4 inches above her knees and, if she were wearing a t-shirt, I’d say it was a crew neckline) and black pump, high-high heels. Now, I usually don’t snark on Kate, but because my attention wandered during her presentation, I had plenty of time to check out the small stuff. First of all, under the bright stage lights, her veneers are so white they almost appear blue-white. And secondly, since she didn’t really sit on the stool, but leaned against it, I could see that her calves are really big and muscular and she does have cankles. Actually, from my angle, it appeared that her calves are about the same diameter as the part of thighs right above her knees. Go figure.
Oops, not to be overly dramatic, but I’ll have to continue later this evening with the actual presentation, Q&A’s and Meet & Greet, since I have to start dinner (yes, I am a normal mom-type person who puts her family first). The rest is the boring part. Kate didn’t say anything new and shocking … same old, same old.
From PaMa:
This is a continuation of my previous post detailing Kate’s Penn State speech.
Once Kate got in front of the microphone, all the um…um…um…umming began. She love, love, loves to speak (or so she said). And she’s so good at it, she claims she actually wrote this speech in the car on the way to Penn State Fayette (probably a 2-1/2 to 3 hour drive). She says she’s a “crammer”, always has been, way back to her days in school. But wait… isn’t she super-organized? I hardly think an organized person would wait until the last minute to write a speech, for God’s sake. I think she threw this little “crammer, wrote-it-in-the-car” tidbit out there to deflect from the fact that someone else penned the speech, although that someone (maybe Steve) isn’t very good, either. I’ve taught high school speech and Kate’s presentation was similar to one I would expect from an average student in beginning Speech. It was very predictable (read: boring) and trite. Maybe, she thought she was going to be addressing all college kids, but the speech reminded me of one heard at a high school graduation. Actually, maybe that’s Kate’s new gig … graduation/motivational speaker. I can see that’s where she’s trying to head with this speech. If so, it ain’t gonna happen, because there was nothing motivational/inspiring about this speech. Her delivery style alone is a killer. Unless she was speaking about events from her life (which I’m sure she’s related hundreds of times), she relied heavily on her notes, which was very distracting.
As I understood it, the theme of her speech was that life throws a lot of obstacles at you, and you have to work hard and do your best to overcome them. Then, Kate read a list of 9 qualities that she possesses (and presumably the listener will need) to overcome those obstacles…way too many speaking points and they’re redundant….determination, strength, perseverance, courage, focus, passion, resilience, endurance, and destination. (Maybe I didn’t hear her right on the last one…destination isn’t a human quality like the others.) During the rest of her presentation, Kate takes each of the 9 qualities, reads a dictionary definition of the quality, uses examples from her life to demonstrate how she possesses that quality, then (relying heavily on her notes) tells in one sentence, maybe 2 at most, how the audience should strive to attain that quality. This last attempt at motivating the audience was always very awkward and contrived and pretty much bombed. Most of the presentation was Kate retelling stories about herself, so I guess maybe that’s why she appeared so happy.
To try to make this ordeal sound interesting and humorous would be an exercise in futility…you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Since I took notes (thank God, it helped keep me awake), the following is just a copy of my notes:
1. Determination: first in her family to enter and complete college (college is her word for nursing school); overcame fertility problems by studying all the options; once she was pregnant with the tups, she was determined to delivery healthy babies; put herself on a 3000 calorie diet, even though she didn’t feel like eating; ordered double or triple bacon servings every morning (I guess she was in the hospital.); asks why she didn’t think to eat pizza (an attempt at humor, I think, in reference to the RV trips … it falls flat.); determined to get to 30 weeks pregnant; total bed rest for last 20 weeks; beats herself up because she was 2 days short of 30 weeks; determined to walk to the bathroom, carrying her stomach, every day to the end of the pregnancy and she succeeded in doing this.
2. Strength: needed strength to deal with the overwhelming task of 8 babies and sleepless nights; she’s now primarily responsible for the 8 (oops, there goes Jon under the bus again); her schedule: up at 5:30, kids up at 6:00 and to the bus by 7:00, running around all day on errands; bus pick-up at 4:00, dinner at 5:00, 2nd bus pick-up at 6:00, reading homework with the tups (everyone wants her to read with them at the same time), math homework (says she didn’t set out to be a teacher), homework done around the table, showers and off to bed for the tups, then pack lunches, the twins want help with their math (that’s difficult because she doesn’t understand today’s math), showers and bed for the twins, clean up the house from the mess the kids made after school; she gets to bed at midnight or later (she didn’t mention where the twittering or blogging fits in.); she has thick skin and an obstacle can knock her down but she gets back up every time.
3. Perseverance: oh, no, here it comes … DWTS; she told the producers she couldn’t dance when she initially talked with them on the phone; they said that was good because she could show improvement; she agreed to try; kids love watching DWTS to this day, especially the twins; all the kids are still telling her she should have won; she persevered to the end and never gave up.
4. Courage: when the divorce went public, she would look in the mirror and tell herself, “I’m getting divorced”; it was hard for her to say the word; she had 10-14 paps following her everywhere; every day she woke up and wondered what the “lie of the day” would be in the tabloids; this went on for 1 year but she had the courage to survive it; she wondered if people couldn’t see the real her for all the crap (her word) in the tabloids; was tempted to hide in the house; couldn’t stop or change it, so she decided she wouldn’t allow it to get to her; she used courage to live through this period in her life; they had many dinner conversations about the “p-people”; tells her kids not to use the p-people as an example to emulate; ordeal made them all stronger; there’s no smile on her face when the paps are around because she doesn’t like them.
5. Focus: distractions all around her; has to prioritize; she has to prioritize the many different needs of her 8 kids; she’s a single woman with a property to manage; during DWTS, she was in the middle of a custody battle; flying back and forth to LA; she’d practice Sat. morning in PA and fly to LA Sat. afternoon; Sunday was camera blocking, which took hours; Monday was make-up and hair which took EIGHT hours (yikes … to look that bad?); after the Tuesday reveal show she would head straight to the airport, still sporting her DWTS hairdo, to catch the first flight home (from my recollection, this schedule seems a little suspect.); she did this every week; she didn’t do well on DWTS because she prioritized her kids first.
6. Passion: always wanted to be a mom; her passion “exploded” when she actually did become a mom; TV landed in her lap; goal of supporting the family became attainable; she said you have one shot, so give it your best; there are no retakes in life; she doesn’t do retakes (I think this was some kind of inside joke that flopped.); she doesn’t tolerate everyone waiting for her to “crumble”; she used to see the glass as half empty; now she’s become a positive thinker and has chosen happiness.
7. Resilience: she loves this word; hard to spell but she’s a good speller; she rebounds every day; so many lies printed in the tabs; she has no intention of taking her kids to Hollywood; she can barely get them to smile for still photos; paps question everything; they’ve created a person who doesn’t exist.
8. Endurance: she’s travelling and working all the time; (at this point, she gives a 5 min dissertation on how her kids have benefited from the show that we’ve heard a hundred times, yada, yada, yada); she’s not a quitter; she’s considering running the full marathon, instead of the half marathon, in Vegas in December; but she’s scared because 13.666 is the furthest she’s ever run.
9. Destination: (I still don’t know if that is what she said, but it kind of fits the examples she gives.); she wants to be the best mom; she wants to guide her children to success to be the best in each situation and to make good decisions; when the kids are grown and look back, she wants them to be able to say she did an awesome job; she doesn’t care what the world says, only her kids; you can’t please everyone.
In conclusion (finally), she stated that everyone faces “walls” in life. There are 3 choices: to stand and look at the wall, to walk around it, or to climb over it. She said the bottom line is to never give up…that quitting is never an option for her.
The presentation lasted one long hour. Although it appeared the audience was made up of devotees, it was a strangely quiet audience … because the speech was uninspiring and devoid of any type of wit or humor.
Following the speech, she took about 6-8 questions from the audience that lasted about 10 minutes. I did ask the pedophile question, but got what seemed to be a prepared answer: authorities are still investigating, her kids are insulated from what’s happening, what happens in the future is not really a concern for her since they’re not filming anymore, blah, blah, blah. Someone asked if she still was friends with Beth. Kate didn’t directly answer, but said she just saw Beth last week at school (or school drop-off maybe?). Then, she danced around answering further by saying that just because people come and go on TV, that doesn’t mean they’re gone from her life. Yes, she’s still friends with Jaimie; yes, she’s still friends with Ashley. The rest of the questions were fan drivel, like how can I spend quality time with my kids when I’m a working nurse…how do you manage it, Kate?
Then she held a “Meet & Greet” in the lobby, which was basically a line for pictures, signed photos of the 9, and book signings. Many fans brought books with them, but they were selling them there, too, (“I Just Want You To Know”, I think) at a table for $24.95. I saw a couple older women purchase them. There were about 50-75 people in line, with a good portion of them appearing to be giddy college girls or 20-somethings. Steve stood about 8-10 feet away from Kate, chomping on gum the entire time. A college security cop stood off to the other side. I didn’t see Kate speak to either of them … she was pretty much on her own and winging it with the fans. Kate remained standing for the entire Meet & Greet. I have to admit she’s really trying to project a new image and somewhat succeeding at it. While not warm and fuzzy, she at least was engaging and chatty with the fans (and smiling with her happy face on). Almost every fan had a picture taken with Kate and then she signed a picture of the 9 to give them. The picture was colored and from the fall photo shoot she just had … all of them sitting on the front steps, with Shoka in front… Kate with the gold vest and purple turtleneck (so I guess that was the real reason for the impromptu photo shoot). One thing that really stood out to me was how Kate could turn on the plastic smile and the posed stance in a nano-second. Watching her posing for pictures with all the fans was an education … in the wink of an eye, she could be posed and smiling, waiting for the click of the camera, and then she was back to chatting. I imagine she looks exactly the same in all the photos she had taken with fans. I guess she’s had a lot of practice, but I still think she probably spends hours in front of the mirror getting it just right. Maybe all celebrities are like that, and I just don’t pay attention.
After watching most of the Meet & Greet (it lasted about an hour), I’d had about all I could take. No, thanks … I don’t think I’ll be attending any more Kate speeches.
A Pink Straight Jacket For Kate said...
Answer to question regarding if Steve was there:
xxxxxxxxxWere there lots of empty seats? Was Steve, Kate's bodyguard, there?.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx52 mins ago txtTwitter.xxxxxxxx not many.. & yes!
(I used xxxxxxx to protect the tweeters)
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Pink, I hope you don't mind me clearing something up here. I checked Twitter and followed the tweets (Lol, I'm getting good at this), and I think you had it wrong as far as what tweets the teen sheeple was replying to. It kind of changes the whole picture:
BlakeHerrilko Blakeley Herrilko
Going to meet Kate Gosselin with my mom! :)
November 3rd, 10:45 AM
BlakeHerrilko Blakeley Herrilko
Ahhhh @kateplusmy8 you were so sweet to stay & meet everyone! You're so gorgeous in person! Thank you :)
November 3rd, 3:04 PM
GriftersRUs Marles
@blakeherrilko @kateplusmy8 How many people were there? Mostly students?
November 3rd, 3:05 PM
BlakeHerrilko Blakeley Herrilko
@GriftersRUs not many.. & yes!
November 3rd, 3:08 PM
So, NOT many people were there, and they were mostly students.
EmeraldCityJazz Don't edit the truth
@BlakeHerrilko @GriftersRUs Were there lots of empty seats? Was Steve, Kate's bodyguard, there?
November 3rd, 3:17 PM
BlakeHerrilko Blakeley Herrilko
@emeraldcityjazz kinda & yes he was
November 3rd, 3:18 PM
LOTS of empty seats and Steve was there.
I don't buy it. Where is a photo? Does PaMa not have a cell phone or camera? Hmmm...
Oops, I didn't see the posts from PaMa when I was typing mine. Off to read them now!
LMAO. Thanks for proving that the sheeple sat here all day waiting to see a report about their queen. Damn sheeple spend more time here than their own stupid and pathetic blogs.
Yes PaMa spent her entire evening writing a long and detailed post about what she observed and made it all up. THAT makes sense!
I shake my head at the part about Kate writing her speech on the trip over?? What??? Doesn't that show sort of a lack of respect for this venue? She knew about this months ahead of time as we first posted it here a long time ago, she had all the time in the world to really sit down with her speech and write a great one. Instead she waits until the last possible minute.
This isn't 5th grade anymore where you can scramble to finish your math homework on the bus and still get an A. Have some respect for all the people who took time out of their day AND study time to listen to you blab. At the very least have your speech ready before you get into the car.
PaMa, thanks for enduring that boring nonsense and taking the time to post here about it!
I think she threw this little “crammer, wrote-it-in-the-car” tidbit out there to deflect from the fact that someone else penned the speech, although that someone (maybe Steve) isn’t very good, either.
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That's exactly what I said in my post above (at 10:49 PM) because Khate tweeted "for first time ever I had a speech written!"
I just knew that wording was odd for her and it sounded like someone wrote the speech for her (for the first time ever).
Unless she was speaking about events from her life (which I’m sure she’s related hundreds of times), she relied heavily on her notes, which was very distracting.
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Yes, I think that's because she has a new manager or agent, and they're trying to take her in a new direction so that's why they wrote the speech for her. So, that is why she needed to rely heavily on the notes.
Many fans brought books with them, but they were selling them there, too, (“I Just Want You To Know”, I think) at a table for $24.95. I saw a couple older women purchase them.
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What a rip-off. I checked Amazon and it's going for $9.20. I bet Khate has a stack of free books form the publisher, so that $24.95 goes right in her pocket (and probably not reported for taxes).
Almost every fan had a picture taken with Kate and then she signed a picture of the 9 to give them. The picture was colored and from the fall photo shoot she just had … all of them sitting on the front steps, with Shoka in front… Kate with the gold vest and purple turtleneck (so I guess that was the real reason for the impromptu photo shoot).
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Well, that's where I get ticked off. She is STILL using these kids! She admitted on Twitter what a busy and stressful day that was, and here it was all for this speaking gig! "Fall family photo shoot", my ass! She has the kids every other weekend, sometimes less, and that's how she made them spend an entire Sunday. That's ridiculous. She is STILL making the KIDS work! She will never stop, will she? What a bitch!!
That's a good point about no pictures accompanying PaMa's recap.
Very interesting, thanx PaMa. But you really couldn't take any pictures?
"Also, as others said, she is just so stupid and irresponsible if she thinks saying she gave him permission makes any of this better. It makes it far worse!"
How so? If she knows he's under there she won't start the engine or put her feet anywhere near the accelerator. If she didn't know he was under there who knows what could have happened? The main danger is from the van itself rolling over Collin and that could only happen in one of two ways: Kate starting the van, or another vehicle ramming into it. If she gave him permission and therefore knows he's there, the danger of the first is nil. The danger of the second is negligible, I'd wager, though of course still possible. But if vehicles are going around ramming vans, Hannah is probably in as much peril, standing beside the van, where she could potentially be pinned. Of course I'm being facetious but you get my point.. there are better reasons to think Kate is a terrible mother than this.
I've been posting on this blog as url. The 12:00 AM post asking for pictures isn't mine. I appreciate PaMa's recap and I don't need to see any pictures of Kart at her Penn State presentation.
Kart shouldn't have allowed her son to climb under the vehicle. Even if she knew he was under there, the undercarriage of that hot vehicle is dangerous. He could have been burned by pipes, engine fluids, etc. Also, did she even think what could be on the pavement in a public parking lot from other vehicles that may have leaked oil and engine fluids, bits of glass, tar, grease, filthy tires, garbage, cigarette butts, spit etc.?
Thanks PaMa for the recap.
I am concerned that Collin now thinks it is OK to crawl under cars. What a dangerous and stupid thing Kate allowed Collin to do.
Carol, since he asked permission before doing it I'm sure he realizes it's something that requires caution and the knowledge of an adult. Otherwise he could have just charged under without asking.
Honestly, I think this issue is a bit of storm in a teacup. Most car related fatalities when it comes to children involve accident or ignorance - either the child accidentally runs into the path of a car, or the adult is ignorant of the child's presence. That's not the case here. To me, Kate smacking Collin on his mouth was much more disturbing.
Sounds like she has finally discovered that she is first and foremost a mom and that is her one and only selling point. Guess the hot momma hooker/I wanna man thing didn't work out so well.
How ironic that she is now hawking coupons since she threatened to shoot Jon for not using a coupon when she was traveling around the country with Steve refusing to take phone calls unless it was an emergency. How would one know by the ring of the phone it was an emergency? Wouldn't you know the one time she answered it was an emergency. Gut feeling. *From her not a tabloid.
She would call home periodically and share with Jon how wonderful the food was at the latest 5 star restaurant. *From him not verbatim.
She just makes me ill. I must be what my mother would call a "glutton for punishment."
Re: The ROL pics..it IS a piece of paper he was after. The pics are backwards in sequence. You can see the girl getting off the bus and she is dropping a book; she has a piece of paper in her hand. I think she picked up the book and dropped the paper and it went under the bbb. The next pic shows him crawling under and reaching for a paper, then he is coming out. IMO
Thanks PaMa for the recap! Loved that she mentioned that she's a good speller in her 7th point. Now, I wish she would use her good spelling everyday on Twitter by not using texting spelling! That's the proof of a good speller.
Collin is the one that is terribly afraid of being breaking one of her rules. He is the one who asked everyone in sight (including his mom who was well aware and didn't answer him but looked at the camera and said I gotta get outa here) if it was okay for him to roll over the wires when all the other kids were doing it. He appeared very anxious. I don't think he of all the kids would have gone under the BBB without her permission. What the pap probably saw and didn't snap was her busy with her new Iphone and she probably yelled out it was okay without giving it much thought but to hurry along.
The children are all on one side of the van. If the child beneath had popped up on the other side, a driver on the other side would have had no warning, and no reason to expect him to come up from under the van.
Why let any child crawl under the car? Why make the underside an attraction? If one child does it, why wouldn't others want to see what it is like, too, maybe sometime when their mother is even more distracted?
Whether this is the stupidest thing Kate has done or not, it is one more in a long list of irresponsible acts. She isn't interested in those children and doesn't care for them in any responsible way. ME ME ME. That's all there is.
Everyone keeps saying that Kate should get a regular job. How is she going to get a regular job after all of the ridiculous things she's done & said. Calling everyone who isn't her "mediocre" pretty much negates the chance of ever getting a "regular" job. I can't imagine any hiring manager at a hospital giving her a job that involves direct patient care. There is video evidence that she stinks at it.
You wouldn't want to put her in an office setting with other people, because of her attitude of being superior to everyone with a mediocre, regular job.
I keep trying to think of what kind of regular job she could get and can't think of anything. She's burned too many bridges.
Thanks, Admin, for posting my comments. Not feeling any great need to defend myself, but I did actually take a couple pictures. However, I got a new phone a couple of weeks ago (Hi, Kate, it's a 4S) and haven't spent any time learning how to use it. I don't know how to zoom in for pictures, so the pics I did take aren't very useful. And that's even a moot point since I've never known, on any of my phones, how to transfer my phone pics to my computer. So call me technologically challenged. I'm guilty!
No problem No Mo...Kate makes me crazy... Can't help that she makes my blood boil...of course I'm concerned for her kids. I have 4 kids myself. Wish no harm on anyone.
PaMa - Did she bother to give a thank you to Penn State's very own Hershey Medical Center for the prenatal care, delivery, and after care of the kids. After all it was the doctors and nurses that were ultimately responsible for 6 healthy babies. Although she would make it all about her, with the ever changing tale of bed rest, and in MB, threatening to leave the hospital, AMA, if they didn't let her take the supplement regimen that she concocted, instead of what the doctor ordered. But whatever, it worked. She has so much to be thankful for, instead of complaining about every little thing; even the dog is not forgiven for not being able to stand upright and help carry the groceries. I am surprised she hasn't strapped a back pack on him and made him at least carry something. Everyone must sing for their supper in that household. I'm working on forgiveness for all the many atrocities I have seen from her against her kids but am just not there yet.
PaMa, I'm on the run for these next few days, little time but eat and sleep and run between appointments. But I took the time to read your post because I had been so curious. Thanks for taking one for the team! I appreciated the details and the notes. Now, dashing again...
(P.S. one of the things I'm doing is making a speech today myself. Kate's a great lesson in what not to do. I speak pretty frequently and don't use notes. What a way to lose an audience!)
Thanks PaMa! Like you, I just got the new iPhone and haven't figured out the camera. Appreciate your critique of the speech and taking the time to share what must have been a long few hours.
Just a note to say thank you PaMa for your post. It did give me a hint of how boring it must have been.
I wouldn't walk across the street to see or hear KG talk about herself,but I do appreciate you taking time out of your day to report back to all of us.It sounds as if it's exactly as we all expected. Me Me Me !
Just want to make a point:
Kate CLAIMS she knew Collin was under the car and gave him permission. For all we know she only found out he was under the car when she saw the pics. Kate is a LIAR. I don't believe anything she says. She probably felt that explanation was the best damage control answer.
Pity Party said...
Sounds like she has finally discovered that she is first and foremost a mom and that is her one and only selling point. Guess the hot momma hooker/I wanna man thing didn't work out so well.
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Discovered she's a mom, I don't think so. I think she's just recycling the persona to see if she can drum up some interest in herself, ie: rebranding herself, once again. I think it's pretty obvious that she either has a new manager or the old team has finally realized that their tactics weren't working and they needed to do something fast before her light burned out completely. She isn't good in public, she has nothing new or helpful to to say, she's failed miserably at everything they've tried with her, and she continues to make horrid PR mistakes - she's a flop.
Post from MaryAnn --
Thank you to PaMa for her report. My curiosity is satisfied.
Kat said...
Whatever...to put it simply..you can't tell people what to do.... regardless of what YOU think the consequence is..
Basically, Kat, you are trying to tell the coupon company they shouldn't have hired Kate. So to me your comments are somewhat hypocritical.
I agree with Tuckers Mom and others; Kate has a job and the children are not being filmed. Good for Kate.
SG said...
Just want to make a point:
Kate CLAIMS she knew Collin was under the car and gave him permission. For all we know she only found out he was under the car when she saw the pics. Kate is a LIAR. I don't believe anything she says. She probably felt that explanation was the best damage control answer.
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Yup, agree 100% She'll do and say anything to protect herself.
Yup, agree 100% She'll do and say anything to protect herself.
Yes Jane but it's too bad she didn't extend that to her children.
Thanks PaMa for that review...felt like I was there. It was, as usual, all ABOUT her, glorifying herself...and lying, as usual. Kate has NEVER been in a college nor attended a college class...her R.N. license is through a hospital program, and I have no problem with that...the problem is with the GIGANTIC lie. She did NOT go to or graduate from COLLEGE. As long as she can talk about ME ME ME, she definitely has the gift of gab, along with the gift of "ummm." And I can't believe she tweeted that Collin went under the bus to retrieve a water bottle, with her permission, when it was clearly a piece of paper. She lies effortlessly, just effortlessly.
The sheeple are saying ALL kids climb under cars?
Funny, mine never did that. Not once.
Why can't they give an inch? Ever? I guess they really do believe that Kate walks on water. What an unpleasant God they have chosen to worship.
Didn't she say in People that Steve is her new manager?
The biggest problem I'm having with this is that Kate's explanation is clearly a lie.
It sounds to me like she saw the pics, realized this looks really bad, and quickly came up with a lie that in her pea brain she thought sounded better than what really happened (I think, that she had no idea this happened). And the lie was that she gave him permission to get a water bottle. She didn't look close enough at the pics to realize that he was actually after a piece of paper.
That said, I think it's sweet of the boy to help his sister out. He obviously didn't realize he was doing anything wrong.
I don't use twitter so I am not sure if I understand this tweet correctly. Did Kate deny that Collin went under the van?
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
RT @_JustJenna_ @Kateplusmy8 what part of this is true? perezhilton.com/tag/collin_gos… 0 EXCEPT LETTR-WAS ONLY SENT 2 PARENTS&MADE PUBLIC BY ?-NOT ME!
Thank you PAmom for giving us the detailed recap.
When I made presentations, I had it canned and committed to memory so that I could focus on my delivery, which was and is always a work in progress. Kate has so many media photos etc. that she could have made a power point presentation to engage the audience.
It sounds like she did OK, since she loves speaking about herself, but she should take the time she has between jobs to attend a few Toastmasters meetings. Works wonders.
PAmom or whomever..... Did Kate mention any of the help that she's consistently had over the years? The volunteers, nurses, nannies, babysitters, cooks/food on set, house cleaners, laundry girls, landscapers, pool professionals?
Anyone?
I can only imagine that the attendance at the Penn Sate satellite campus was well attended in great part due to geography. Central PA has long been invested in the Gosselins and I bet many there have followed them for years.
I think the audience numbers would be different in say, Peoria ;-)
As much as Kate's exploitation of her kid's disgusts me, let her just go on & do this job as a coupon "queen". It's not hurting anyone really. Apparently, Coupon Cabin (?) thinks Kate will net them some "moms" out there who *still* think that Kate is someone. (That's kinda funny). Maybe they've watched the episode of Kate screaming at Jon about using a coupon??
Anyway, she is not exploiting the kids (SO FAR), it's maybe bringing home some money, & all along, didn't everyone say; "As long as the kids aren't on TV, Kate can make herself look like an ass?" As soon as she starts using those kids though, well then...people can start on in her. She ALWAYS uses them as a fall back, that IS her thing, but maybe Coupon Cabin told her NO. Who knows?
Maybe this once-& this hurts me to say it- we should just cut her a break. When she starts "my kids this, my kids that", then have at her.
PS- Her Shoka blog entry was LAME. Legless chickens?? HUH?
~HC~ :)
I, as an adult, wont even crawl under a car, even if its turned off with the emergency brake on.
Ill get a stick or something to fish something out, but NEVER will I get under the car.
As a child my mom left me and my sister in the station wagon, with the engine off and the emergency brake on, to go get my Daddy from "work" at my uncles restaurant and the car somehow started rolling down the slight incline and we ended up being stopped by a mailbox across the busy main street...
THANK GOD no one hit us.
Cars can do funny things and can be deadly weapons, I should know my Daddy got killed by drunks.
I really REALLY hate Kate!
I used to feel sorry for her, but her narcissism will not allow her to listen to advice.
PaMa--thanks so much for the recap. You did a great job.
Kate is thinking about running the full marathon instead of the half in December? Hate to tell her, but it's been sold out.
Uh Oh spaghetti-o!!!! Kate yelled at one of her fans because she misunderstood something, and now Kate won't apologize even after the fan repeatedly said I wasn't talking about you!
First the fan said this about a "hater":
bexjones1976
@Kateplusmy8 she really is warped !!!
Then stupid Kate said:
kateplusmy8
@BexJones1976 me? How so? How would you know? I don't tweet that you're warped bc I don't know u either!??!
So I guess Kate would agree that if you don't know someone, it's not okay to call them warped whether they are Kate or a "hater"!
Please do not use this blog as a means to provide ways to sabotage Kate's employment and maliciously interfere with her employment that doesn't exploit the kids. I don't like when the sheeple trying to interfere with our jobs that don't exploit kids, and I will NOT support interfering with Kate's, period.
If any adult wants to interfere with Kate's job, I trust they are smart enough to find the contact information to do so. I'm not bending on this.
Yes PaMa spent her entire evening writing a long and detailed post about what she observed and made it all up. THAT makes sense!
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Yessiree - that's exactly how I would want to spend my evening, making up a story about Kate at a venue, detailing every bit of it, right down to the stools on the stage and Steve chomping on gum!
Speaking of which, was Kate chewing her cud, and did you count the ummmmssss?
Thanks, PA!
So Steve was with her yesterday why in the hell didn't HE get under the bus and get the paper or water bottle.?
Twittering and a Twattering said... Just when I think that the sheeple can't get any more blind and any father up Kate's butt, there's this from a delusional worshipper:
jeannekaye
@Kateplusmy8 They sure do try to make a mountain out of a molehill on everything huh?
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The kids was under the van, for heaven's sake! If she had rolled the car over him, they would say, "Well, it was the kid's fault, but she still has seven left."
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They will also say: "It's all Jon's fault! If HE was helping Kate with the kids more, this never would have happened! It is also the CHILD'S fault - ungrateful kid deliberatly disobeyed His Queen to make her look bad!"
Sheeple have already teetered close to blaming the children for Katie's dysfunctional parenting, as the kids get older and their acting out becomes more apparent, the sheeple will blame the kids more outright for upsetting Their Queen.
Perez Hilton has some story up about Collin and Alexis being expelled last spring. He says a letter went home to the parents and that the kids apparently hurt adults.
A follower asked her if there was any truth to it and she said "0 EXCEPT LETTR-WAS ONLY SENT 2 PARENTS&MADE PUBLIC BY?-NOT ME!"
So she's saying the letters were only sent to the two parents, she didn't make the letter public, so she thinks Jon did.
Problem is, Perez Hilton doesn't quote the letter or anything. I'm sure other people at the school knew about it. And I remember reading last spring about the kids actually hurting other kids and then adults. In other words, Perez is recycling an old story. But now she's saying Jon must have made the letter public.
She really just needs to STFU. And all this coy teasing about how she's working today (but she can still tweet!): I don't think I even care what she's "working" at. Probably spitting out incomplete sentences and banging on that ! key like a monkey on a cupcake for coupon cabin. Who cares, Kate? That's not even a real
job.
As for the climbing under the bus, my kid NEVER did that, I wouldn't have allowed it, and no parent should allow it or let their kids even THINK it's ever ok to climb under a vehicle. Parked or not, running or not, cold or hot. Just no. This is like Parenting Common Sense 101 here. Her fans must truly be idiots. I learn more and more each day why they worship their Idiot Queen--she does totally stupid things they would or have done.
What if someone rear-ended Kate while Collin was under the bus?. What would she have done then or said then?.Anything could've happen
She is to darn dumb to see it or care but then again it's all about her.
So she's saying the letters were only sent to the two parents, she didn't make the letter public, so she thinks Jon did.
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I didn't read it that way. She said it was "sent 2 parents" - in other words 2=to, meaning it was sent to parents, not that it was sent to two parents.
SG said...
Just want to make a point:
Kate CLAIMS she knew Collin was under the car and gave him permission. For all we know she only found out he was under the car when she saw the pics. Kate is a LIAR. I don't believe anything she says. She probably felt that explanation was the best damage control answer.
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Administrator said...
The biggest problem I'm having with this is that Kate's explanation is clearly a lie.
It sounds to me like she saw the pics, realized this looks really bad, and quickly came up with a lie that in her pea brain she thought sounded better than what really happened (I think, that she had no idea this happened). And the lie was that she gave him permission to get a water bottle. She didn't look close enough at the pics to realize that he was actually after a piece of paper.
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Admin beat me to it, because that is pretty much how I was going to respond to SG's post. The story and photos came out, Twitter was going crazy and Khate saw that, so she tweeted a bullcrap excuse for what happened. Lying as usual, she thought the water bottle retrieval sounded good, having not gotten a close enough look at the photos to realize it was a piece of paper.
So, Khate the controller and uber-"masterminder" who usually lines the kids up and even has index cards instructing them where to sit on the school bus, decided at bus pick up that day to just sit in the BBB most likely reading tweets, and she had no idea one of the kids crawled under the car. What's next?
Thankyou PAMA for going to that sorry excuse for a speaker. Being late is unexcuseable, that is not an inspiring thing, to be late, maybe a celebs thinking, but kate is not an a-list. Why the sign: they weren't goin have any disrepect of the guest speaker? Was this Kate idea? Kate being paranoid? Kate to me has nothing inspiring to say.
As for the tup under the BBB, I'm sure Kate will have a fit(if she was driving), when the kids, come out, and his uniform pants are dirty. Another excuse to yell at one of her kids.
The coupon tweet: another day at work: please! what a joke that is. So now are we gonna hear this everyday 5 days a week, that Kate is off to work? What work is there really to do couponing? She will do a blog what once or twice a month, go shopping? Come on people how many times do you shop? Twice a week, once every 2 weeks(like around payday?), once a month to stock up? So Kate is gonna shop everyday, with what money? whose money? And where is she gonna put the stuff? Is the hoodie and jogging pants, and sport shoes, her couponing uniform?
So Steve was with her yesterday why in the hell didn't HE get under the bus and get the paper or water bottle.?
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Steve was with her in the van? Where was this reported? The incident happened on Tuesday, not yesterday.
Regarding Kate's Penn State Fayette speaking engagement: Just a few points I forgot to include in my comments above:
1. Outside the auditorium at the Meet & Greet, there were 10-15 college students in a roped off area. I assume these were the "VIP's" since they got first crack at Kate and they were probably part of the organization/committee that arranged for Kate's visit. They were all giddy and abuzz waiting for her to begin the Meet & Greet. I overheard one especially giddy girl say that twitter was going crazy with people wanting info on Kate's speech ... and pictures. I don't do twitter, but I wonder if this is an indication that somebody on the committee is a diehard fan ...why else would she be twittering immediately after Kate's presentation (and probably during it) ... and explains why Kate was invited to Penn State Fayette in the first place...she had a lover on the organizing committee.
2. During the Q&A's, someone did ask about any help Kate had. Kate responded that she had a sitter and a housekeeper. The sitter is there to help Kate when Kate is home and is alone with the kids when Kate is away. She said things get crazy if the sitter calls in sick and Kate is due to leave town. She ends up calling everyone..."family, friends, teachers" looking for someone to stay with the kids (wonder if she ever thinks to call Jon?).
3. During the Q&A's, someone asked a question I don't remember, but her reply included the fact that 99.9% of the time the tups miss the crew.
4. During the Q&A's, the question was asked what she does for fun. She stammered around a bit before responding that she runs and sleeps in.
5. During the presentation, there was no mention of her Web site, her twitter account, the new coupon-blogging gig, any future speaking engagements, or anything for the fans to look forward to in the future. But addresses for both the Web site and the twitter account were printed across the bottom of the pictures she handed out at the Meet & Greet.
6. To the poster who asked above, I don't recall any mention of the hospital or the doctors at the hospital who were responsible for delivering 6 healthy kids.
"Thankyou PAMA for going to that sorry excuse for a speaker. Being late is unexcuseable, that is not an inspiring thing, to be late, maybe a celebs thinking, but kate is not an a-list."
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I wait fifteen minutes for a speaker. If he/she isn't there by then, I leave. Unless it is announced that the person was delayed because of transportation problems that couldn't be avoided, or a sound system malfunction, I figure if the speaker doesn't have enough respect for the audience, then I really don't want to hear anything (or advice) that the person has to say.
Being punctual is everything. There is no excuse for lateness.
Khate's reply to the sheeple retweet is in bold:
@Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
RT @Paige_Kate8fan @Kateplusmy8 have a good day at work:) LOVE THE SOUND OF THAT! Thanks!:)
November 4th, 9:58 AM
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JeanneKaye Jeanne K
@Kateplusmy8 Hey Lady, Happy Friday, what's going on today?
November 4th, 9:44 AM
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
@JeanneKaye work, yay!
November 4th, 9:59 AM
Maybe I should tell my horrifying child under wheels story. I do have to warn y'all it's awful.
When we lived in another suburb, the neighbors across the street had six boys ranging in age from toddler to 9 years old. They were ALWAYS playing in the street, and we didn't live in some secluded area, but a huge suburb on the northern edge of Dallas. Our street got lots of traffic. Sometimes the kids would just get off their bikes and leave them in the street! Other times, cars came very close to hitting them. Everyone was concerned. I finally spoke to the mom, just telling her she needed to instruct the boys not to play in the street. I told her I'd seen a few too many near accidents that left me gasping and thanking God nothing happened. I hoped it would get through to her to watch them more closely, but she was never outside with them. They had a huge backyard with a play set and sandbox and loads of space, but they were always in the street, even the four year old.
One morning, the four year old was riding his Big Wheel in the street. It was garbage collection day. He was pedaling along behind the truck. The truck missed a can. It had this mechanical arm that picked up the cans, so there weren't any guys hanging off the back. As the truck backed up and the warning beeps came on, landscape workers in the next yard saw what was about to happen and began screaming to the child to watch out, watch out. In Spanish. He didn't know Spanish. He looked over at them and waved while his feet kept pedaling. He went under the dual tires on the back and was crushed. The truck driver couldn't see him in his mirrors--he was directly behind the huge back wheels.
911 was called, he was put on a Care Flight helicopter, but he died seconds into the flight. The garbage truck driver took early retirement. A couple of other neighbors saw it happen from further down the street and told me months later they started going to a counselor and went on sleeping pills--they couldn't get the image of that child being crushed to death out of their heads. The landscape workers were inconsolable, apparently. Felt it was their fault, somehow.
The family sold the house and moved to Colorado. We had left for the day, thank goodness--I cannot even imagine what it does to a person to witness something like that. Or to lose your child like that. We came home to police tape and blood on the street they hadn't gotten up. It was all over the news and the neighbors further down who saw everything told us what they saw.
At the time, my own daughter was four. I was horrified and spent some nights crying myself to sleep. We knew those kids, they played with my daughter. I had to explain what happened to her friend, and I re-emphasized the danger of cars and trucks in the street, etc.
I know this was long, but Kate has eight kids to keep an eye on--not an impossible task, by any means--but she needs to think about what could happen and what kind of message she's sending by ALLOWING a child to climb under a vehicle. That is never ok.
Warmth of the Sun, I didn't count the um's, but they punctuated the entire presentation ... even when she was on autopilot with her personal stories. Kate wasn't chewing gum, but at the end of her presentation, a boy (about 8-9 yo, I would guess), who was there with both of his parents, came up on stage and presented her with flowers and a piece of gum. Kate said thanks, she did like gum, and gave the boy a less than genuine-looking hug and kiss.
Warmth of the Sun: why would the school send out letters about matters concerning specific kids to all the parents? That doesn't make any sense.
"to parents" could also mean to the parents of those kids, meaning Kate and Jon.
Dallas Lady said...
Perez Hilton has some story up about Collin and Alexis being expelled last spring. He says a letter went home to the parents and that the kids apparently hurt adults.
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I took a look at the link the sheeple tweeted Khate and that Perez story is old. It was posted on Perez on December 15, 2010.
http://perezhilton.com/2010-12-15-gosselin-kids-harmed-an-adult#.TrQG4rK0_Xg
Thanks for the recap, PaMa. The speech come across as being rather cringe inducing, like almost all of Kate's stuff.
I'm happy to see the NoMo has apologized to Kat. A word to the wise , NoMo, think twice and post once, it will save you the need to apologize for your posts. I'm not lecturing you but you do seem sort of new to posting.
As for Kate and the Coupon Cabin job, I'm not going to email them unless she blogs personal things about the kids.
That's my 2 cents.
AC
Kateplusmy8 Kate Gosselin
RT @_JustJenna_ @Kateplusmy8 what part of this is true? perezhilton.com/tag/collin_gos… 0 EXCEPT LETTR-WAS ONLY SENT 2 PARENTS&MADE PUBLIC BY ?-NOT ME!
November 4th, 9:49 AM
Khate is replying to the sheeple that NO part of (zero) the Perez story is true, except for the part that says a letter was sent home to the parents (Jon and Khate) about the problems with the two kids. She then is claiming the letter was made public, by who, not her! So, she's implying that Jon made that school letter public.
By the way, do we really think cheapo Khate who has no real, steady income is actually paying Steve to accompany her for a full day?
Isn't this typical Kate? When she gets bad publicity, all of a sudden stuff comes out and she blames Jon? She's so transparent.
If Jon had wanted the letter made public, he would have done so when the children were first expelled.
How much does Steve actually make?.
Dallas Lady: That is horrific. I don't know how anyone could get that image out of their heads. Those poor people who saw . . . and I pray the poor child didn't really know what hit him.
Maybe now people will understand how some people think getting under RUNNING cars is a bad idea whether permission was given or not.
Someone posted this on Twitter:
Reality show mother of 8 offers advice to students
By Mary Pickels, TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, November 4, 2011
Speaking at a college campus may have inspired Kate Gosselin to put together a vocabulary list as an outline.
The former nurse and mother of eight, whose life inspired a reality show on The Learning Channel, admitted she was a "crammer" in college.
"I wrote my speech on the way here," she told an audience of predominantly women and students on Thursday at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
The Berks County woman and her ex-husband, Jon Gosselin, starred for several years on The Learning Channel's "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
After the couple divorced in 2009, the reality show was re-titled "Kate & 8." The final episode aired in September.
Gosselin, 36, is a blogger on the website CouponCabin.com and travels to speaking engagements across the country.
Yesterday, she used the words strength, perseverance, courage, focus, resilience and endurance in discussing a life that included parenthood to multiples, sudden fame and divorce.
Gosselin encouraged students to complete their studies.
"I have eight kids to send to college someday. I'm speaking from a mom's perspective when I say work hard and do your best," she said.
Her "cast-iron determination" came through as she learned to study in college, and again when she struggled to conceive, she said.
Gosselin said she found strength when her sextuplets were born in 2004. "There is no manual on how raise twins and sextuplets," she said.
Now a single mother, she reviewed a day in her life, from overseeing homework, dinner and showers to bedtime. After cleaning up from "Hurricane Gosselin," she packs eight lunches before going to sleep.
Her 2010 appearance on "Dancing With the Stars" also took perseverance, she said. The judges gave her low scores for her stiff dancing, and she was voted off after several episodes.
"Did anyone here vote for me?" she asked, to audience applause.
"Thank you. I recommend you see your eye doctor. Who were you watching?" she joked.
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She found courage when her divorce "went so ridiculously public," and she had to face down paparazzi and deal with the tabloids' "lies of the day."
"I feared people would not be able to see the real me, because of all of the crap -- sorry -- that was written about me," she said.
Gosselin said she has learned to focus on what is important and to ignore distractions. "Take a deep breath. Prioritize what needs to be done now and what can wait," she advised the students.
Her final goal is to guide her children toward their own success.
"I want my kids to grow up and look back on their childhood and say, 'You made good decisions. I'm proud of you. I love you and thank you,'" she said.
Marian Jarina of Chalk Hill and her daughter, Kristen Jarina, a Penn State student, had watched Gosselin's reality show together.
"It was interesting to see how she handled all those kids," Kristen Jarina said. "I thought it was helpful to college students to learn they are not the only ones who cram. I liked the different words she used to describe her life."
"I thought she was really down to earth, just a regular person," said Marian Jarina.
She said she liked Gosselin's advice to moms and students to never give up, to persevere and to achieve one's goals.
The oldest of seven children in a blended family, student Brandyce Glisan, 26, of Markleysburg said she could relate with Gosselin on one level.
"I do understand having a big family. And I liked how she talked about (trying to protect) her kids from the paparazzi," she said.
Student Brandon Mitchell, 20, of Masontown said he understood how having eight children could cause stress.
"I liked what she said about not needing everyone's approval. If her kids think she did a good job, that was what was important," he said.
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There's also a pic there that you can click on to enlarge.
From PaMa's description last night:
"I think we’ve seen this outfit before … it was a form-fitting print dress (blue, white, black/brown swirls, ¾ sleeves, maybe 3-4 inches above her knees and, if she were wearing a t-shirt, I’d say it was a crew neckline) and black pump, high-high heels."
PaMa, we all believed you and your very detailed account of her talk, but at least this article will prove to the sheeple that you were in fact there! You see, sheeple, the only LIAR is KHATE!
Oh my morning laugh - K8 twittering about work, how happy she is to be working today - umm K8, most people who actually work don't spend the day twittering about it, and your twitter pals, guessing they don't actually work either.
It is astounding that she actually thinks this new, very part-time, blogging about coupons gig is JOB, as you get up everyday, go to the office, work 8 hours, then do your grocery shopping and cook dinner for your 8 kids kind of a job. OK, maybe not astounding since this is the woman who thought pimping out her chidlren to reality tv was a CAREER.
So today is a work day - I seriously doubt she is getting paid much for this gig, and next week she is flying off to Australia with her "manager", that to her is also work. Oh yes, she is certainly become the penultimate working woman these days. Well at least she makes me laugh.
strength, perseverance, courage, focus, resilience and endurance
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All of the above do NOT relate to Kate in any way. She is not a strong woman, she is a bully. She does have perseverance in a very perverted way. She finds someone who disagrees with her philosophy and she decides to hold firm to her philosophy even when proven how wrong she is. Courage? Please. Maybe in the same sense as Courage the Cowardly Dog. Focused? Now maybe I was wrong and this one she actually is -- she's focused on making big money through her kids. They alone brought her fame and fortune and she isn't about to lose her focus on that goal. Resilience? Seriously Kate. You are still so focused on blaming Jon for everything that went wrong in your life and you call that resilience? Endurance? What the hell has she had to endure? I'm sure she never expected that her bullying, tenacious treatment of Jon would ever cause him to leave and her be left without his help, because he did far more than any helper ever could, and the added bonus that he loved them. She just is so delusional and such a liar.
On Twitter today, MiloandJack (aka "FiredUp4Kate") keeps insisting that Kate stated publicly her kids had to leave school last year for "medical reasons." A review of the many comments about this from that time shows that is simply not true.
SG, if you are checking in here, why don't you hit her with this: http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/kate-gosselin-denies-two-of-her-plus-8-were-expelled-from-school-11759.php
I don't use Twitter or I would be happy to set her straight myself.
In NONE of the stories I found is Kate quoted as saying they had medical issues. In fact, she herself uses the word "behavioral" when talking about the problems.
Sad when her sheeple actually try to rewrite Kate's OWN comments to make her look better.
Now Us Weekly has picked up on the story of Collin under the van.
So........ here's what I don't get:
WHY didn't she get the kids inside, roll the van 10 feet, put it in park, turn it off, get her lazy ass out of the van to retrieve the paper herself?
That way, NO ONE had to climb under a vehicle.
Stupid, lazy, bad mother.
Frankly, it is amazingly entertaining to see how inadequate her mind works.
I sure hope Jon is keeping records!
Gift of Grab, Kate did indeed say (eventually) that the kids left school to address medical issues. She left that very nebulous.
This was a few weeks after the story broke and after Kate said that the problem was behavioral.
Specifically, Kate said this on the Today Show.
My take on the time was that this change in the party line was supposed to hinder anyone who would deign to investigate further, since medical histories and problems are typically off limits in decent conversation.
It would be very understandable for any mother to decline specifics about a child's medical history.
Convenient, huh? And clever.
Kate has never lacked in cunning.
K, I haven't read through all the comments so I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet - but why the heck couldn't Kate get all the kids in the van, kneel down to see where the paper/water bottle was, move the van, and then get out and retrieve it? That would be my first instinct as a mother instead of letting a child crawl under a hot car where clothing could have gotten tangled, head could have been banged, etc. This is not being nit-picky towards Kate - this is being astounded that the mother of the century lacks basic common sense!!!
Here's another question:
If she isn't employed anymore, who is providing health care insurance for the kids?
Would TLC have included that in their contract?
Would the non-custodial parent (Jon) be required to provide health insurance?
I guess my question can be applied more generally that specifically to this couple...
But hopefully there is health care insurance.
In reading all of the above, I am thinking that Kate would be all that and a piece of cake if she actually followed her own advice. Courage? We have seen the courage she showed when she had her 10-yo twins take the jump first off a building and she went last and landed in a heap on the sidewalk in the fetal position moaning like a wounded animal while her bewildered children encircled her and stroked her back. Very reassuring and a grand example for the children.
Prarielivin,
LOL!!! Great minds think alike ---
........and I have to add to my previous comment - she would have VILIFIED Jon if he was the one who let Collin do that. It may have even warranted a special trip to the Today Show to express her emotional distress over the incident.
PaMa said...
2. During the Q&A's, someone did ask about any help Kate had. Kate responded that she had a sitter and a housekeeper. The sitter is there to help Kate when Kate is home and is alone with the kids when Kate is away.
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So let me get this straight: Kate needs a sitter to help her take care of the kids even when Kate's home. Yet, the sitter takes care of all 8 by herself when Kate is away. So Kate's basically admitting that she can't take care of her own kids by herself. Not great PR for her if she's reworking that mom-of-the-year angle. She's even dumber than I thought.
Permanent Name said...
So........ here's what I don't get:
WHY didn't she get the kids inside, roll the van 10 feet, put it in park, turn it off, get her lazy ass out of the van to retrieve the paper herself?
That way, NO ONE had to climb under a vehicle.
Stupid, lazy, bad mother.
Frankly, it is amazingly entertaining to see how inadequate her mind works.
I sure hope Jon is keeping records!
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I don't understand why she didn't get out of the van and reach under the van and grab the paper herself. It looks like it was within arm's reach for an adult.
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Strength, perseverance, courage, focus, resilience and endurance
I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but her topics remind me of talking points in a high school valedictorian's speech. It was LAME, boring, and sounds like something that had been given a distracted 90 minutes of consideration. If this was written FOR her, the author should either be ashamed for producing something so weak and amateurish or given a pat on the back for writing something that came out sounding like it was written by a high schooler.
In NONE of the stories I found is Kate quoted as saying they had medical issues. In fact, she herself uses the word "behavioral" when talking about the problems.
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There was somewhere that she said medical issues. She used that term. I remember because I thought...what kind of medical issues do they have? They have no medical issues that would cause them to be removed from school.
It's unconstitutional to suspend a kid for medical issues. We're not stupid, Kate.
I would guess the reason she didn't get out of the vehicle to get the paper herself, or supervise all those kids in a parking lot, is because she was busy - twittering, perhaps?
How about moving the car forward and getting out and pick it up.
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In fact, I don't understand why no one in Kate's life has advised her that perhaps it would be in her own best interest to drop the Twitter account now. I'm no fan of Kate's, but she evidently can't see that her Twitter account does nothing to lend credibility to her, nor will it advance the "career" she so desperately wants on TV. Quite the opposite, I'm guessing. I don't see any other celebrities who are using their Twitter accounts in the way she does. It has become SO vicious (from both sides, frankly), so crude at times, so detrimental in every sense of the word to her "persona" (as if she needs any help in looking bad in public). From the most vulgar of language, to young girls begging her for a response (which they seldom get) as to whether Kate has received her 'package', to wild speculation about almost everything. If she was smart, she would shut it down. Everything said is out there in public, in perpetuity, on the Internet - for anyone and everyone to see. If she honestly expects to be taken seriously by ANY employer, Hollywood or otherwise, she should know that they'll be checking her out. Can she truly believe this is benefiting anyone, most especially herself? It's time, Kate. Shut it down, as Gordon Ramsay would say. Your 'kitchen' has become too dirty to cook in.......so to speak......
Okay if Kate had a sitter then why didn't the sitter get out and get the item from under the bus?.
Dumber than Dirt said
So let me get this straight: Kate needs a sitter to help her take care of the kids even when Kate's home. Yet, the sitter takes care of all 8 by herself when Kate is away. So Kate's basically admitting that she can't take care of her own kids by herself. Not great PR for her if she's reworking that mom-of-the-year angle. She's even dumber than I thought.
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Along with being stupid and irresponsible, this woman is a PR nightmare.
Her ONLY commitment is to keeping herself as far from her children and their needs as possible. If that takes a live-in sitter to free her from the few hours she has them when they aren't in school, so be it.
Her selfishness keeps her blind, and that's never going to change.
The medical issues comment was made by her on one of her trips to The View, I think. It was a verbal comment, not one made in writing.
To the best of my recollection.........
If she was smart, she would shut it down.
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I totally agree. Remember though, this is Kate Gosselin.....a jelly bean has more common sense.
That's what I recall too...that she eventurally said "medical issues" on one of her interviews.
There was a fair amount of snark about it on here at the time, cuz nothing had ever been mentioned about medical issues before.
I think the general consensus at the time was, Yeah, right. Likely story.
So only the twins went trick or treating
http://www.kateplusmy8.com/halloween-candy-sale/
Canuck said
I don't see any other celebrities who are using their Twitter accounts in the way she does. It has become SO vicious (from both sides, frankly), so crude at times, so detrimental in every sense of the word to her "persona" (as if she needs any help in looking bad in public).
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You're absolutely right. The only chance she has of rehabilitating her image is if someone manages to convince her that her behavior needs to be tightly controlled, preferably by someone who realizes how much damage she does to herself on an almost daily basis.
The way she uses Twitter, and the glimpses it provides into her life and attitudes, are hurting her as much as the continuing evidence of her unwillingness to parent her children.
But she won't shut her Twitter account down. She is desperate for attention, and Twitter is the only place she can get on demand.
Twitter also feeds into her delusion that SHE is controlling the message.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The adoration of a very small fan base is meaningless compared with how sick the rest of the world has become of this woman.
Minimal interaction with 30 or so fans on Twitter can't counterbalance the overwhelming evidence of her bitchiness and incompetence that is all over the Internet, where it has been viewed by millions.
As ever, her immediate, selfish, needs are much more important than any long-term goal.
Gift of Grab, Kate did indeed say (eventually) that the kids left school to address medical issues. She left that very nebulous.
This was a few weeks after the story broke and after Kate said that the problem was behavioral.
Specifically, Kate said this on the Today Show.
My take on the time was that this change in the party line was supposed to hinder anyone who would deign to investigate further, since medical histories and problems are typically off limits in decent conversation.
It would be very understandable for any mother to decline specifics about a child's medical history.
Convenient, huh? And clever.
Kate has never lacked in cunning.
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I recall Kate was adamant that it had nothing to do with filming or the show.
She knew that would have ruined her chances of going to Australia/New Zealand.
Yet another example that Kate is more interested in fame, "the brand", and the former show than the welfare of her kids.
Regarding the children's "medical condition" that led to their expulsion?
Can anyone say "Ritalin" or "Adderall"?
Kate often does use tidbits truth. ADD/ADHD is the lazy parent's drug of choice to medicate their unruly kids into complacency.
Emma said... Regarding the children's "medical condition" that led to their expulsion?
Can anyone say "Ritalin" or "Adderall"?
Kate often does use tidbits truth. ADD/ADHD is the lazy parent's drug of choice to medicate their unruly kids into complacency.
November 4, 2011 12:04 PM
Please clarify the part of your post that I've bolded.
I remember Kate making a statement about the kids being expelled for "actual medical issues", too. I took it to mean that they had ADHD or some other learning/mental/emotional issue that resulted in severe behavioral problems. And Admin, it isn't unconstitutional to suspend a child for medical issues. If said medical issues result in behavioral problems that put fellow students or school workers in danger, the school is well within its rights to suspend or expell if the student cannot be safely accommodated in the classroom.
Colin under the bus is just mind-boggling. I can't imagine allowing any child to crawl under a car or van, running or otherwise. Aside from the safety issue, it's just plain filthy in a parking lot. I can't imagine a parent who won't even allow her kids to roll in the grass for fear of grass stains allowing a kid to get down in that grime/grease and lord knows what else, in a good school uniform.
I have a child under the wheels story too, although, thankfully, mine has a much happier ending than Dallas Lady's. I was leaving for work early one morning when I heard my neighbor across the street screaming "Stop! Stop!". I hit the brakes and then I heard a little squeak and another neighbor's 5 year old came riding her big wheel out from behind my car. I'm short, sit even shorter, and I never would have seen her behind my (rather high) car. Thankfully, all was well, although I didn't go to work after all and spent most of the day throwing up whenever I thought about what could have happened. I never back out of my parking space again without getting out of my car and looking behind it first.
PaMa -- Thank you for enduring Kate's speech and for recapping it here. You deserve a drink or a piece of cheesecake or both for your efforts. It sounds like it was incredibly boring.
readerlady
Actually, I don't "get" your whole post. Maybe it's just me.
Emma said.....
"ADD/ADHD is the lazy parent's drug of choice to medicate their unruly kids into complacency."
It is obvious neither you or a loved one has ever lived with a child or adult with ADD/ADHD. If you did such an uneducated comment would not have been made.
Regarding Kate's new post on Halloween, I still think Kate wasn't even home for Halloween and that she stayed another night in NYC. That was the "schedule" excuse for the tups not to dress up and go out.
Next was the "Halloween blizzard" which happened to be a snow event 2 whole days prior. BS.
Kate had no plans to take the tups out this year. No cameras, no Halloween for them. Why no costumes for the tups? Why can't the ones who get the biggest kick out of it get to do it?
(the littlest ones were the most fun this year, IMO....)
And I have to say as a dog owner, hiding candy around the house, ESPECIALLY CHOCOLATE, is very dangerous if a dog happens upon it and eats it.
Sorry tups, you get sloppy seconds this year!!!!!!!!!!!
nb- excessive use of exclamation points for emphasis.
This is OT but a lot of cases of ADHD/ADD/Hyperactivity disorder are due to enlarged adenoids/tonsils. The enlarges adenoids or tonsils cause the child to not be able to get a full nights sleep causing them to be OVERTIRED and loopy and hyper the next day
http://www.10news.com/health/9948935/detail.html
Just sharing
ABC said...
Emma said.....
"ADD/ADHD is the lazy parent's drug of choice to medicate their unruly kids into complacency."
It is obvious neither you or a loved one has ever lived with a child or adult with ADD/ADHD. If you did such an uneducated comment would not have been made.
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The comment did look insensitive, and yes, there are millions of people with genuine ADD/ADHD issues who benefit from drugs that help them to focus and lead more satisfying lives.
BUT it is true that many physicians now believe that these drugs are frequently over-proscribed in families just like Kate's, where a parent is unable or unwilling to deal with typical childhood behaviors or use constructive child-rearing techniques instead of drugs.
Kate has made it amply clear that she is not interested in her children's problems, and she has shown over and over that she is an extremely lazy parent. It is not much of a stretch to assume that she would choose medication over the time-consuming and sensitive job of interacting supportively with her troubled little ones.
Administrator said...
It's unconstitutional to suspend a kid for medical issues. We're not stupid, Kate.
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Unconstitutional?!? Please share where the right to a PRIVATE SCHOOL education is written into the U.S. Constitution.
Admin, the school absolutely can refuse any child, whether for medical reasons or any other reason.
Private schools are not bound by the same regulations and restrictions as public schools. Public schools are generally mandated to provide education to ALL students, regardless of medical, social, or behavioral issues. (They may sometimes do this at the student's home, but usually the district must provide it, even to a student who has been expelled.)
The Gosselin's school does not have to meet an external standard for removing students. All of these policies will have been spelled out in the contract that the parents are required to sign before enrolling students at the school.
Private schools can pick and choose who attends, and their contracts reflect that. They may take otherwise unacceptable students for financial reasons, but there will always be something in the contract allowing the school to remove a student who is a problem.
Yes anonymous. The Americans with disabilities act applies to private schools too.
Emma said... Regarding the children's "medical condition" that led to their expulsion?
Can anyone say "Ritalin" or "Adderall"?
Kate often does use tidbits truth. ADD/ADHD is the lazy parent's drug of choice to medicate their unruly kids into complacency.
November 4, 2011 12:04 PM
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I would like Emma to clarify her statement.
Reality check generally yes. But a private school can't expel a kid they've already admitted based just in for instance they are paralyzed. Ty have I comply with the Ada.
A medical issue is not by default a disability. You are flat-out wrong. Not to mention that the Americans with Disabilities Act is not written into the United States Constitution. Illegal and unconstitutional are not synonymous.
Off topic, I know. Just found this article on foxnews where Gosselin is lumped in to Nadia Suleman (Octomom). Article is about both Octomoms having financial problems and poor choices Kate made. Here's the link to the article http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/11/04/octomoms-nadya-suleman-ond-kate-gosselin-in-financial-straits/?test=faces
Re No Halloween for the tups: It was interesting how she never directly responded about Halloween the many many times she was asked about it by fans on Twitter, starting several weeks before the date. I think you are 100% right, Tucker's Mom, she never had any intention of buying them costumes or taking them out. The Saturday blizzard provides a convenient excuse (although it doesn't really, since she had power again well before Monday night, and clearly it didn't stop the twins from going out). It's especially sad for them when you think of the huge party they had in their house a year ago. But this year, on Mommy's whim and due to her extreme self-centeredness and laziness, they only get to do a "house hunt" for candy a full day later.
She is a sorry excuse for a mother and an even sorrier human being. I don't understand how anyone could find her in the least admirable.
I wonder if Jon pays for the kids health insurance through his job. I cannot imagine TLC is still paying for that.
Dallas Lady -- that is just too horrible for words. How tragic that you had warned the Mom and that a 4 year old was in the busy street. So very sad.
Can we all agree that Kate is a lazy parent?
Administrator said...
Reality check generally yes. But a private school can't expel a kid they've already admitted based just in for instance they are paralyzed.
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The private schools whose contracts I've seen, and signed, generally state that a child can be removed if, in the estimation of the school, the school cannot meet the child's needs.
If the school does not accept any government funding, it is NOT required to accommodate the needs of disabled students, paralyzed or otherwise.
In at least one case at a school I was familiar with, the parents sued to keep a child whose needs - involving a respirator and a full-time aide - at a small private school whose classrooms were too small to accommodate the machinery or the aide. The child had been accepted before his needs outgrew the physical plant.
The parents lost in court, as the contract they'd signed allowed the school to refuse to re-enroll a student whose needs could not be met. The school received no federal funding.
The school would have been bankrupted if the parents had won; there simply wasn't enough money (or appropriate land) to build a classroom that would have met this particular child's needs.
California may be different, but this is what I've seen in the Midwest and the East.
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Can we all agree that Kate is a lazy parent?
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Amen to that.
I agree about Hallowee. A mom with a blog would post pictures of the kids in costumes. She didn't do jack because TLC WAS NOT PAYING FOR IT.
And it is just bizarre that she had Steve with her at the college. She's either paranoid or they are a couple. There is just no logic to him still hanging around.
Gift of grab said... Re No Halloween for the tups: It was interesting how she never directly responded about Halloween the many many times she was asked about it by fans on Twitter, starting several weeks before the date. I think you are 100% right, Tucker's Mom, she never had any intention of buying them costumes or taking them out. The Saturday blizzard provides a convenient excuse (although it doesn't really, since she had power again well before Monday night, and clearly it didn't stop the twins from going out). It's especially sad for them when you think of the huge party they had in their house a year ago. But this year, on Mommy's whim and due to her extreme self-centeredness and laziness, they only get to do a "house hunt" for candy a full day later.
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I crumbled and read the blog entry. Yeech. Anyone else notice the comments page is closed (probably the one smart move she has ever made). Has it always been that way?
Long time lurker...anyway, in Kate's speech she claimed to be the first in her family to attend college. What about her father, who is a minister?
Winsomeone, Kate attended school post high school. I believe her education is a nursing certificate from a hospital, which kudos to her for it, but it is not a college degree.
Kate clearly lied. Perhaps she feels proud or superior or whatever that she went on to get a level of education beyond what her family did.
You know, I'm the only one in my family to get a college degree and unless someone asked me pointedly about it, I'd never use it as a matter of conversation.
The irony of all this is that Kate's "college" education isn't good enough! She feels that it's mediocre as a means to provide for her family.
I'd be offended and in disgust if Kate told me to get a college degree while she feels the only way to go about making a living is FAME.
And the thing is, she should get her ass in college to further her own education with the gobs and gobs of money she's made, but she is too lazy to even think about living the 9-5 lifestyle anymore.
And my guess is that Kate will not take any part of her young son being under her car seriously.
Even if you have one or two kids it is still unsafe. I don't care for whatever excuse she thought she could use to get by, permission or otherwise. I am dumbfounded to see that Kate as a parent doesn't take the time to take something as dangerous as being under a vehicle seriously.
Accidents can happen. I know a lot of people, I happen to view Kate as the one who tells herself, "It will never happen to me, it's always someone else that bad things happen to." Well, I'm sorry it's not always going to be someone else. It could very well have been Kate.
And I know for almost certain if this had been Jon her sheeple would be all over him about allowing it to happen. Why they continue to let Kate slide I will never understand.
Makes me nervous almost walking to school to pick up some of my kids. I wonder if Kate has even bothered to teach her children to look both ways in a parking lot or before crossing a street. Absolutely no excuse, water bottle, piece of paper. Those things can be replaced but you may never be able to replace human life.
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And it is just bizarre that she had Steve with her at the college. She's either paranoid or they are a couple. There is just no logic to him still hanging around.
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So, Khate and boyfriend Steve are BOTH unemployed - how do ya like those mediocre apples Khate? Oh, the irony.
Stuck keys. Should have read *TLC stinks*
ADD/ADHD medications are given out like candy these days. My best guess would be one out of ten children who take these medications actually need them.
Parents (especially single moms, in my experience) who are ineffective at parenting their children often resort to medicating a child rather than deal with their own failures.
Do I have experience with this? A loved one who benefitted from these stimulants? Yes. Before you jump on your high horse and make assumptions, it might be nice to clarify.
My experience has been that many lazy parents choose medication over good parenting because it's the easiest way to gain quick results.
Winsomeone said...
Long time lurker...anyway, in Kate's speech she claimed to be the first in her family to attend college. What about her father, who is a minister?
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Each denomination has its own rules about ordained clergy and the position of "preacher". In many they give preaching licenses to those without any formal education at all, including children as young as 14 or 15. Others require 1-2 years at a Bible College. Most "mainstream" churches usually require a 4 year college education plus 3 years at an accredited Seminary, a time that is often compared to Law School in its intensity and course level work.
The Rev. Mr. Kreider could fall anywhere within this continuum.
Mother of the Year - "The way she uses Twitter, and the glimpses it provides into her life and attitudes, are hurting her as much as the continuing evidence of her unwillingness to parent her children.But she won't shut her Twitter account down. She is desperate for attention, and Twitter is the only place she can get on demand."
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Sadly, I believe you're right. But a very good point you make about the 'glimpses' she provides into her life. Always raises some question either in the fans or non-fans' minds...if she's out running for hours, who's with the kids or are they there alone with a young babysitter (makes me cringe to think about all the anonymous or potentially dangerous Internet folk who read her mindless tweeting); if she's in NYC and lying about when/if she got home in time to take her kids out for Halloween; she forgets what she lies about and people pick up on in right away. Which brings me back to my initial point - what potential employer, husband, colleague, editor, you name it - would want to touch this woman with a ten foot pole when she participates in all of this, on the INTERNET, daily. She is putting the noose tighter and tighter around her own neck every day. She really should shut it down, but I know you're right - she never will.
I still don't understand why in the world would Steve want.Kate as a romantic partner I mean since her was so good to Jon
I read somewhere (maybe Wikipedia) that Kate's father has a Masters degree in Education. Also -- aren't her brother and sisters all college graduates? Kate's not the oldest in the family, so either her older siblings went on to school later in life or she's lying yet again.
Admin -- I've taught Special Ed. in public schools and am currently volunteering as a classroom aid for a couple of kids with severe behavior and learning disabilities in my Parish's elementary school. We currently have 2 students who were expelled from public school because of severe behavioral issues. One, a 10 year old, was incarcerated for 6 months for attacking his teacher. He has fetal alcohol syndrome, with severe impulse control issues and explosive behavior. Medication helps but doesn't eliminate his problems. We're able to control his behavior, so far, because we're a much smaller school and can provide more one on one instruction. So absolutely, yes, children with medical problems can be suspended or expelled. Also, as others pointed out, the school system can require that the child be educated at home. Least restrictive environment (169), not ADA, usually applies.
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Lets not forget that Kates dad was not JUST a Pastor but also a teacher, he had to have gone to college
How can Kate's fans actually think that a child, ANY child's head or body, being under the tire of a car or truck or SUV is OK? I don't care if you're the Pope or Mother Teresa or a frigin serial killer. It is NOT OK. It's just not. This is ridiculous to defend just because *we* think it's wrong. Will they ever concede to what IS wrong? Or because it is Kate, & she is their idol for some strange reason, that is not possible?
God forbid something had happened to that child; then what? How would her fans have defended her lies & contradictions? When will they wake up & see that she is a person who puts her pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else & makes mistakes, like everyone else. Had that boy been anyone elses son, some other "reality 'has-been'", I'm sure they would have something negative to say. Just because it's Kate, they can't or else they look like they failed their 'queen'.
How sad that they feel the need to protect her. That kid could have been seriously hurt, or worse, yet her fans think "all kids play under cars?" In what fantasy land do they live in?
~HC~
Preesi, wasn't it your site that showed a document showing Steve had Khate's address as HIS address and didn't it also show his annual salary? or am l delusional...?
Love, love your blog btw. YOU are hilarious!
http://i43.tinypic.com/33nzteb.jpg
^^^Steve lives at Kates Addy
I recall the number $1600.00 but dont know if thats per day, week, or month
Thanks!
Emma,
Not every parent who has a child with ADHD medicates their child. Some parents, like myself & my husband, does research, changes diets, has a regimented schedule, seeks therapy for the child, & makes sure their child has an active, but not OVERLY active calendar, gets enough sleep, etc.
I agree that maybe some parents & doctors are quick to assume that their child may have ADD/ADHD, but there is extensive testing that needs to be done to determine that. Just because a child "acts like a kid" doesn't mean that child should be diagnosed with anything.
BUT in some cases, medication IS the best treatment, it all depends on the situation, & that is nobody's business.
It has NOTHING to do with lazy parenting. It is a real disorder that people live with, kids & adults alike. There may come a day that my husband & I decide to medicate our child. Who knows. Does that make us lazy? No. It makes us caring parents.
Making statements like the one you did is just ignornant.
Kate's the Charlie Manson of having poor little followers
Sorry my reader way playing up and not showing me new posts on any of my sites today. It's working again since a reboot so here is Kate's latest for those that haven't seen it yet.
Halloween Candy Sale
Does this photo look familiar to you? If you have kids, it may.
Gosselin candy trading post!
This year, due to schedule and the unexpected Halloween blizzard, only Mady and Cara got to go Trick or Treating. They went with friends. I realized on Tuesday morning that they would each have a bag brimming with delicious candy and that the little kids wouldn’t have any!
SO – creative idea to the rescue! A friend suggested I have a candy hunt throughout the house and let them collect their candy in their Halloween pumpkins! What a genius!
I headed off to our local grocery store just before the bus stop to look for all of their favorites – Kit Kats, Reese’s cups, Blow Pops, peanut M&Ms, Milk Duds, Nerds and more!
I was thrilled to find ALL the Halloween candy on clearance since it was a day after Halloween and filled a basket for only $21 instead of $35-$40! What a bargain! Bargains make my heart sing and this find made me even more excited to carry out my plan!
Once we got home from the bus stop, Mady helped to hide the candy and once dinner was over, we all paraded to the basement for open season on candy hunting! What a huge hit! The squeals of joy emitted were so rewarding! Then up stairs for our typical Gosselin Candy Sale!
The process takes place like this:
Each child finds a spot on the floor or at the table to sort their candy. They make piles of each type of candy and then a pile of “for sale” candy. as Mady calls it. Mady even went so far as to make a “clearance” pile containing the least desirable sorts which she would “sell” for basically nothing! What can I say? A girl after her mothers heart! Gotta love clearance whether you’re selling or buying!
Since I had no candy to trade, I was only permitted to “shop” in her clearance pile! I did well though… Maybe a little TOO well?
The process continues… once piles are sorted, each child walks around and the mass bargaining begins!
“I’ll trade you this Snickers and this Milk Dud for your Reese’s pumpkin”
“No, I dont like Snickers but I’ll take a Kit Kat” …and so on…
It is SO fun to watch them work together peacefully even though it lasts for an hour! And it would last longer if I let it! It reminds me of good memories when I was a kid because my brother and sisters and I did the same thing.. Only this time it wasn’t my parents who were foraging for stray candy, it was ME! (yikes!)
xoxo
K8
What a horrible "mother"
The "little kids" are old enough to realize that she treats them like dirt....7 years old and no trick or treating because of HER schedule?? WHAT A BITCH.
And then - don't forget the grifting for candy...notice how she hinted that she is looking for sale items (we all know she is so poor when it comes to spending money on the kids but not herself).
The "little kids" are gonna hate being called little kids soon - and they are gonna hate her.
I remember a phrase that my psych teacher told my class once - "The child is the father of the man"....meaning that those boys are going to grow up and have some serious issues picking a mate....and the cycle of abuse continues. The girls - all of them - will grow up to have image issues thanks to mom looking like a $5 hooker.
So sad
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On what site was this found?
Maybe he was getting his mail there? Intelius lists Steven Kurt Neild in Maryland:
Steven K Neild
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Gaithersburg, MD 20878 and North Potomac, Md.
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Relative: Gina M. Neild
Intelius has no record of a Steven Neild, Steve Neild, Stefan Neild, Stephen Neild, or Stephan Neild with an address in PA.
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I believe public schools abide by IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, in regards to educating a child with a disability or who requires special education services.
That was Intelius, I guess he got it removed
But Lookie here
http://i.imgur.com/Tz6OZ.jpg
Jeezie Creezie- why does eating their "organic" Halloween candy have to also be a friggin' unnecessary procedure?
Oye, such a fuss.
Kate's fans HAVE to defend her. If they don't, they fear she'll block them on twitter.
Thanks Just Me. I don't believe a word of it but if it is true I hope that they found all the chocolate and didn't leave any for Shoka to eat
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Preesi said... Lets not forget that Kates dad was not JUST a Pastor but also a teacher, he had to have gone to college
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Reference your "JUST" a Pastor statement. I know that you didn't mean to knock anyone and I know that there are some religions where not much training is involved. I just want to note here that my dad was an Episcopal Priest and not only did he go to 4 years of college he went to seminary after that BEFORE he was ordained. He had a Dr. of Divinity.
I feel very sad that her 7 year olds did not get the change to enjoy trick or treating experience with anyone other then amongst themselves.
At this age 7 year olds should go in groups with friends, not staying home to trade candy amongst siblings only.
Like I said, I did candy trading, but a lot my kids who went with friends brought them home in the neighborhood.
Why can't Kate, regarless of her stupid schedule just let up even once? Maybe next year her kids who will be 8 by then will be able to go out with friends.
You only get one shot at a childhood. Her trading seems so...organized. Just them go crazy. Not everything she does with her kids has to be organized. Fun can be completely unplanned, dump your candy on the table and go at it.
But I have a feeling Kate will never see life in this regard. She waits until Tuesday morning to realize her younger kids wouldn't get any candy? Uh-huh. I thought she was organized.
So with that big house she hid the candy only in the basement? How much fun could that really be? Lame, lazy and lying witch!
I remember a phrase that my psych teacher told my class once - "The child is the father of the man"....meaning that those boys are going to grow up and have some serious issues picking a mate....and the cycle of abuse continues.
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William Wordsworth, "The Rainbow." Simply put, what it means is children transition to adulthood retaining all of the memories of their youth, and everything that was instilled in them while they were young - their emotions, values, both negative and positive, and these traits remain with them for the rest of their lives.
I've believed for a long time that Kate and Steve are a couple, and the fact that he is still around just reinforces my opinion. I know many people wonder why Steve would want to be with her when he saw how badly she treated Jon, but we've seen on the show that Kate defers to Steve. He just seems to have a stronger personality than Jon and doesn't take her crap. That's not a knock against Jon - just pointing out that different people have different personalities.
Will she please stop calling the snowfall a "blizzard"!!!
A blizzard is several feet of snow, strong wind, being stuck in your house for days, if not weeks - believe me, I grew up in New England.
She has a few inches of snow, lost a few branches from a couple trees, and was able to get out of the house within a day. Plus....the snow happened on Saturday, Halloween was on Monday. NO EXCUSE for not letting ALL the kids be kids and have Halloween.
Oh my gosh! Can she write a sentence without an exclamation point!
Her speech, from what I gather having read it from PAMom (I hope that is right, if not I apologize) that Kate enjoyed having the opportunity to talk about nothing else...but HERSELF.
But as a Narcassist, that's just it, they are selfish self-centered individuals and nothing more.
Preesi said... Lets not forget that Kates dad was not JUST a Pastor but also a teacher, he had to have gone to college
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It depends where he was a pastor and what he taught. Some congregations do not require a college education for their ministers; likewise, where did he teach and what did he teach? There are private schools (not accredited) and private Bible schools where teachers are not required to have a college education. Not that he taught in a Plain community, but members of the Amish and Mennonite sects may become teachers with only an 8th grade education, and they do not require a college education of their teachers.
Kate's been wearing that huge ring maybe Steve got it for her. If that's the case he is even dumber than I thought
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[excerpt] And I have to say as a dog owner, hiding candy around the house, ESPECIALLY CHOCOLATE, is very dangerous if a dog happens upon it and eats it.
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Tucker, you are absolutely correct.
I sincerely hope that ALL the hidden candies are found by Kate & kids, before Shoka finds them.
Kates father was a teacher where the Kate and her siblings went to school. Some Christian School I think he taught high school grades...
Preesi said...
Kates father was a teacher where the Kate and her siblings went to school. Some Christian School I think he taught high school grades...
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Kate graduated from Mount Calvary in Elizabethtown, a private Christian school. If he taught religion, it's possible that a college degree was not required. Do you know what he taught?
I have no issue with folks living together unmarried. It's a sign of our times. If it floats your boat, then row on down the stream...
I do wonder, though, if he is really living at the address, is he in the house, sharing a room with her?
TRUE - none of MY business!
But I have to wonder 1) if the kids realize it, 2) what they think of their dad being kicked out, and 3) why this hasn't been babbled about at school, filtered on to parents of friends then on to a tabloid?
I used to wonder how this kind of mix-n-match coed roomie thing affected the kids involved but I think it's become such an integrated fact in our society these days that no one blinks an eye anymore.
I guess that it takes all kinds, different strokes for different folks, etc. And if Jon is livng with Ellen he can't point any fingers.
Of course, purseboy could be living in the boy's house - the apt over the garage....
Oh, who cares!? I'm just rambling on here.... LOL
Oh boy a post holiday Halloween candy (@ 50% off, hope she had coupons) Easter hunt in the basement. Wonder what the 7 year olds were saying to themselves all evening while Mommy's schedule had her eating dinner in New York. There is nothing, nothing, defensible about this. And the witch could not even let their dad have them for an evening, she defies words, she really does.
She has a few inches of snow, lost a few branches from a couple trees, and was able to get out of the house within a day. Plus....the snow happened on Saturday, Halloween was on Monday. NO EXCUSE for not letting ALL the kids be kids and have Halloween.
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The snow was gone and the roads were clear on Sunday. There wasn't a trace left when kids went trick or treating on Monday.
This year, due to schedule and the unexpected Halloween blizzard, only Mady and Cara got to go Trick or Treating. They went with friends. I realized on Tuesday morning that they would each have a bag brimming with delicious candy and that the little kids wouldn’t have any!
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She only realized this on Tuesday morning?
I feel sad for those kids, especially when Kate claims she wants her kids to have all these "life experiences". I can only imagine what those kids went through post-Halloween at school, when other classmates were sharing their stories about trick-or-treating or how they celebrated this special occasion and the Gosselin sextuplets had nothing to share except "mommy forgot" or "mommy was too busy".
Why couldn't the sextuplets join their own friends for trick-or-treating, like the twins?
If the family couldn't trick-or-treat, she could have thrown a Halloween celebration with dress-up, movie night, and make special treats instead.
What a mediocre after-thought for the kids, since it sounds like Kate didn't make any plans for Halloween except for herself. She chose to make an appearance on The View instead of celebrating Halloween with her kids. Fame over family.
Kate can be off to NY with the bodyqaurd/god know what eals. But she can't/won't make time for the 8 she claims she will die for.
To take them trick or treating for a few hours she really is a good model for a good mother.
I also have wondered if purseboy is as deluded as she is... he might be thinking he can manage her into a stellar career and make big bucks off of her.
My opinion of a 'bodyguard' who has a rediculously embellished resume from a company of 3 people wasn't much in the way of a professional.
This gig got him to the US - the land of opportunity, don't ja know. He might have been waiting for just such an opportunity as our little kart. Certainly he saw dollar signs - his TLC pay was huge.
He might actually think he's hit pay dirt....
I don't have a high opinion or any respect at all for him. I see him as a silver haired joker with a funny accenty.
He had a Dr. of Divinity.
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To me, and anyone else who doesn't believe in organized relgion, he may as well have a Dr. of Fantasy.
Not everyone believes in God and the bible. Welcome to the internet.
Kate needs to just shut up about everything, and I mean everything. The hole is so deep now that she's never going to get out of it. Cancel twitter. Shut down the website. Stick with couponing and an occasional guest appearance or speech for whomever will have her.
Stop the tweeting! Stop feeding the sheeple! Stop giving herself a venue to bash her husband. Bow out gracefully with whatever dignity she thinks she has left (yeah, I know...none). The sheeple will live.
They'll suffer withdrawal, going into cardiac
arrest, sobbing hysterically, seeking therapy, but they will survive. After all, isn't that what Kate is preaching? Resilience, courage, determination. Live goes on.
"I realized on Tuesday morning that they would each have a bag brimming with delicious candy and that the little kids wouldn’t have any!"
Complete lack of foresight and organization. It's difficult to believe that the six, younger children would passively let Hallowe'en approach and pass them by, especially after last year's "episode". Kate had to have known what the outcome would be if two of her children are allowed to take part in an event that is truly geared towards the younger ones. These children aren't blind to what their peers are allowed to do. She most likely doesn't realize it or care, but she's only succeeding in planting the seeds of resentment in her children towards their siblings, their peers and her! It's very sad.
PAmom, thanks for telling about the speech. I'm not surprised Kate was late. That's inconsiderate Kate for you. The reason she didn't do well on Dancing with the Stars was because she put the kids first? Right.
In the article about the speech, there's this quote: "I want my kids to grow up and look back on their childhood and say, 'You made good decisions. I'm proud of you. I love you and thank you,'" she said.
Thank you. She's always talking about the kids thanking her. If I had heard her say that, I would've screamed.
Accent, not accenty
Sorry - sheepish grin, downcast eyes.....
THAT'S SHEEPISH, not sheeple! LOL
This Halloween blog post is even more absurd, coming from the same woman who over-did it with 700 Easter eggs this year. (Yes, it was for the tv show.)
http://www.realitytvkids.com/2011/06/recap-chicks-eggs-organic-easter-bunny.html
Kate graduated from Mount Calvary in Elizabethtown where she majored in the overuse of exclamation marks.
I'm sure the six didn't mind sacrificing Halloween so Mommy could have her View fix. It's her career! I'm sure that fantastic interview she did has her phone ringing off the hook with job offers. Snark.
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