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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:22 pm
I stand by my opinion that bibs are kind of degrading for a big little kid. I'd rather see Kate take their shirts off. JMO. (Yes, if Abby has a nicer outfit on, I'll strip her down before she eats something like spaghetti.) I don't care if she gets some applesauce on her clothes as i wash them at the end of the day anyways... I have no problems with their highchairs as they are not they typical baby highchairs. They are just higher chairs, pushed up to the table with no trays.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:30 pm
I don't see the bibs as necessarily degrading unless the parents emphasize that they should be seen that way. We always kept these things simple – if you spill too much then you wear a bib. If you are eating something messy that is easy to spill and you have spilled it in the past then you wear a bib. No humiliation involved and none seen by it. I know lots of adults who tuck their tie inside their shirt when eating spaghetti. We also never paid a lot of attention to ages. I'd have trouble telling people what age my kids did certain things. We just weren't age focussed at all.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:39 pm
Which is why Jimmer is always in a bib 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:52 pm
LOL - There are times when it would help. 
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:55 pm
Huk, those high chairs are at the new house. I saw a brief clip of Kate on Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil's website doesn't have much. I looked on youtube too but didn't find anything.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 12:57 pm
I always I thought the tie was a bib! I very insidious form of a bib, but a bib nonetheless!! I mean, isn't that why they were invented? 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 1:39 pm
Cathy and I were dining in an expensive restaurant. I was carefully and fastidiously wiping my mouth when I noticed a waiter looking at me with an odd expression. He looked away quickly at which point I looked down and realized that I was wiping my face with my tie. 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 2:02 pm
Oh dear Jimmer...this just keeps getting better and better!!! I really need Cathy's number!!!
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 4:19 pm
lmao!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 4:53 pm
Escapee, aren't your kids on the tall side for their ages? That could make a difference in when they "graduated". To add to what Julie said about Kate's appearance, she pointed out that her husband was just as involved with the babies as she was, equal partner, so that cut her efforts in half. And Julie, sure, you can just wash those things at the end of the day, but Kate has vastly more wash to do, so just letting them be sloppy wouldn't work. and I know she has said she hates stained stuff or having to de-stain.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 5:04 pm
Ah, thanks Happymom!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 5:08 pm
You know what it might be? That i am not that into cooking. A lot of what i serve is very simple and does not have a lot of sauces. I do a whole bunch of finger foods for the kids. I serve a lot of fresh and uncooked foods. Abby eats cut up cheese, broccoli tops, grapes, bananas, green beans, cut up pieces of chicken or fish. Yogurt is maybe as messy of a food as I do... Carrots, apples, soybeans. So I guess we don't have a big need for bibs.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 7:16 pm
If I were doing laundry for 10 people, clothing would only be worn OUTSIDE of the house. Folks inside would be rinsed off in the shower as necessary -
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 11:40 pm
Is she passing clothes around and down between all the kidlets? Both Caleb and Kota have same sex cousins less than a year younger than them so I knew most of their clothes would be passed down. With messy foods they either wore a bib or just diapers/underwear and we were able to pass quite a bit down to the next kid in line. On a side note, baby niece spent the day with me today and she was wearing a little purple sweatshirt that I had bought Kota when she was a baby! Everytime I see that sweatshirt I wonder what the hell I was thinking buying the ugly thing for, it's got horribly ugly bows on each sleeve and one right in the center of the neck. LOL, it's been through Kota, oldest niece, two middle nieces, and now the baby.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, February 13, 2009 - 4:32 am
Kate's kids wearing hand me downs? Um no.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, February 13, 2009 - 9:01 am
Sea: Emma is pretty tall for her age. Lilly is normal height.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 7:49 pm
OK so I was looking for something else [Jon ,Kate, and the kids were on some morning show and supposedly Maddy was asked if Kate was a good mom, and Maddy said she liked her dad better, then supposedly you could hear Maddy say ow mommy that hurts, as if Kate pinched her.] and found this youtube on why the kids are still in high chairs. Jon has taken the middle bar out so now they are more like raised booster seats, and will be using them probably until they are 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YbIFoCx_Gg
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 12:18 pm
I read the part about the bibs earlier....all I can say is my 97 yr old granny uses a bib at the nursing home....as does everyone else!
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Scoutmom
Member
01-19-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 1:49 pm
My father-in-law has Parkinson's and last year for his b-day I made him bibs with car patches on them. One was Ford, Edsel and a Ford restorer patch since he is a Ford man and used to restore an old pickup. At least those looked good - at least much better than the cheap plastic ones my m-in-law used when they went out to eat.
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:36 pm
Serate Thanks for the You Tube Link, Oh my gosh though, The comments were terrible! Who are those people that talk like that!!!! I would so Deleate those comments if it was my video!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 9:16 am
Was there a new episode last night? Our power was out for 24 hours with the big storm system than blew through our SoCal area and we lived like pioneers with candlelight and oil lamps. It was pretty cool...I mean that literally since we had no heating system running...brrr!
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Debra
Member
11-20-2003
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 11:24 am
There was a new episode last night. Kate was happy to get her new washers, dryers and dishwasher. The little kids helped to paint the basement.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:36 pm
Seattlemom sorry the comments were bad. I never look at the comments just for that reason.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 8:39 pm
Debra, thanks for the info! I just enjoy this show so much, mostly because I'm not raising 8 children...lol! I always look at the positives for Kate, Jon and their beautiful children and it boggles my mind when others have negative things to say about this lovely family. Just my ==>
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 9:44 pm
sitting next to Eggie with my boggled mind! LOL
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