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Dipo
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04-23-2002

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
I don't normally watch this show because I just can't get why they need so many children. But I did see parts of the ceremony and show. Felt the same way you did Sugar about that being in charge thing and I was amazed about letting God decide how many children they will have. Just hope they can support them.

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
If you don't watch the show, they have zero credit card debt and pay for everything with cash.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
to each, their own - just not my style.

Josh & Anna really look like they are consumed with love for each other. But, I just can't help feeling like this seems like an arranged union.

Pamplemousse
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09-28-2003

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamplemousse a private message Print Post    
The in charge bit set my teeth on edge too.

I thought it amusing/interesting to see the parents stressed out having to keep up with and caring for the younger kids while the older girls were off with Josh at Anna's folks house doing the wedding prep. Sure hope the parents appreciate those girls more now. certainly was a "telling" moment.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 9:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Did you see how much hairspray Daddy Duggar was using? Wasteful wasteful, shameful, shameful.

Meggieprice
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07-09-2001

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meggieprice a private message Print Post    
I have the same problem when I am photographing a wedding and some of the stuff in the vows is so sexist! It is hard to keep my thoughts to myself sometimes.

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
You know I had a friend who confused her valium with her birth control pills. She had 14 kids, but she doesn't really care.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 11:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
ROFL Sgranny!! I know I've heard that before, but it's still just as funny! :-)

Panda
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07-15-2005

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
I sure noticed that Pamplemousse! I was glad the girls got to go to FL!
I also think they are waaay conservative but I am still fascinated. I still can't tell the kids apart except from Josh now...lol I like to see which kid is featured.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Were any of Michelle's family at the wedding? Or any of Jim BOb's except cousing Amy?

The trip to San Fransisco was interesting. I am astounded at the belief that because they used birth control thus angering God they had a miscarriage.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I'm enjoying the Christmas parade. The little donkey and monkey are so cute.

Jennywa
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07-17-2003

Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jennywa a private message Print Post    
I caught 10 minutes of this show for the first time-the Christmas Parade- and maybe I am jumping to conclusions, but I found it very annoying. This family didn't seem that interesting-their comments were very mundane, and even though the situation should have been at least exciting, it was boring to me. Five minutes of taking off a rusted hitch? Mom watching from the bus? Dad nervous about riding a camel? Nondescript kids commenting about how cold they are?
Not for me. Ten minutes was enough of my time to devote to this show.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Jenny, I can see where one if unfamilure with the family it could be boring. But I've been watching them for a long time and it's almost like I'm watching the Arkansas branch of my family.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
I think it was interesting to see the Duggars in El Salvador. I wonder what they think of the "let God decide" philosophy when they see people living in abject poverty and having 14 children, several of which died of malnutrition.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I've been in several Central American countries and the poverty there will break your heart.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Wow, on last night's show. I am so impressed they have taken Michelle's parents in to live with them. Her father has Alzheimers and needs a lot of care, but her mom looks able to handle it pretty well with the help of the family.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Actually it's Grandpa and Grandma Duggar, Jim Bob's parents.

I know alot of people think wow too many kids, but they are self sufficient, are not on government assistance, and the love is there. Not many would take on elderly parents, with or without that many kids.

I love this show. I love that they are finally letting the orneriness of some of the kids show through too, and the whining and tantrums. They aren't "perfect", they are real.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 2:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Serate, I don't doubt what you are saying about which parents they are, but what am I remembering. I thought when she went to her family's reunion that was her dad sitting in the chair who was lost in his mind. Does her father have a brain disorder also?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Not sure about her dad OG but before I posted the above I did restore last night's episode and FF to that part, and she called them Grandpa and Grandma Duggar, and the subtitles said Duggar.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
How sad, I just came across this trying to find information about Michelle's family.

Grandpa (Jim "J.L.") Duggar (February 3, 1936 – February 9, 2009) - Jim Bob's father.

RIP Grandpa Duggar.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Alzheimers is such a robbing disease. It's almost as though once the person has it, they are already gone. The person that they were is gone and the person that they are is just waiting to be gone.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
It's even worse than that Escapee. In the beg. and sometimes middle stages of alzheimers, people have plenty of moments of clarity followed by moments of confusion and then clarity. It's heartbreaking, they know, they see what's happening to them. At the retirement home, we could have residents with beg. stages, but once they got to a certain point they had to be moved to a different facility because we weren't equipped to work with them (no nurses/doctors/lockdown.) I'll never forget one elderly man sobbing (whole body shaking, tears, sobbing) when he realized he hadn't known his children when they'd visited him earlier that day. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Erniesgirl
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06-26-2006

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Erniesgirl a private message Print Post    
can't wait for tonight's episode. It's great seeing the previews with them meeting Kirk Cameron.

Lights, Camera, Duggars

6 and 9pm pacific
half hour episode

The Duggars travel to the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival to watch movies and meet their favorite star, Kirk Cameron.

Sassynegal
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01-21-2005

Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sassynegal a private message Print Post    
It's great that they are able to support all of their kids and they seem like a great family, but what I have trouble with is that if you are so conservative, why would you exploit your family on National TV - for $?

I'd never put my family on air - they can't watch tv but they can be a reality show. It just seems contradictory to me.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I'd never put my family on air - they can't watch tv but they can be a reality show. It just seems contradictory to me.

They can watch TV, it's just limited and monitored. They can't just turn on the TV anytime they want and/or watch anything they want. NOTHING wrong with that IMO. My 5 year old great nephew has wicked nightmares, and my niece won't admit that just possibly allowing him to be in the room when she's watching horror movies - since the day he was born - might have a bit to do with the nightmares.