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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 11:52 am
Tish,you crack me up. You stand up for every Cali family they put on this insane show. I think they could have a family of ax murderers on,and if they were from Cali,you'd point out their good points.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 12:03 pm
It's not CA families--really! Hell, I'm a transplant (like most Californians). I could go on at length about my "issues" with this show, but I am going to edit myself. It could go on for thousands of words.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 12:12 pm
I just checked out Kyle Abbot blog and was quite suprised by the content. Not as it seems on the Trading Spouses. He watches movies, Survivor, Plays baseball, Archery etc. Seems well adjusted from the bit I read. Just goes to show you never can tell.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 12:22 pm
Shows you what the art of editing can do,eh? I can just see a director yelling,"No,no shoes! Take off the shoes!!!!"
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Chieko
Member
11-20-2003
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 2:42 pm
MSS----they speak Chinese because the father stated he thinks the Chinese will rule the world one day.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 2:51 pm
When they brought new mom home it showed the car the TN family drives and it looked like a Caddy Escalade type car. Didn't Tao Papa say they didn't have a TV? Maybe the TV and the puter are in the den.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 4:46 pm
I thought it was REALLLY RUDE when they spoke Chinese in front of the TN Mom. From what they showed, she seemed to just sit there. I "might" want to get up and leave! I say might since I've been in situations where people speak a different language right in front of you and I so so wished I knew the language so I could be sure they weren't saying bad things about me! LOL It reminded me of when my friends and I were young and when the adults didn't want us to know what they were talking about, their family would speak Italian. Grrrrrrr... that's a real pet peeve for me! When the kids were talking about their father thinking the Chinese would rule the world one day, it reminded me of how my dear deceased MIL would go on about the Japanese and how she thought our kids were getting sublimnal messages from the cartoons and games they played! She was so paranoid about it when she'd let us know what she was thinking, which wasn't all the time! I feel sort of bad to bring it up on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, but it was because of that & WWII she felt that way. When my brother lived in CA back in the late 70s, early 80s, we joked about whether anyone was actually BORN in CA. Well, I guess there's a whole generation who has been now, but it was pretty funny, esp. when the first person I met in a store when I got there was a woman who lives 60 miles from me here in NY and she had just moved there. LOL To be fair, there were plenty of things the TN family said and did which made me cringe, but I guess I'm more used to seeing people who don't have much decorum in situations where you wish they would! 
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 5:07 pm
I was looking at the website above and found comments about last night's show from Carl and Luke. It explains quite a bit as far as how FOX had to creatively "edit" the show so they would have a "story." LOL http://www.playingbyear.com/ts/
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 6:50 pm
The TN mom was very funny and it is a shame how they edited the Santa Cruz family to seem so bad. It's not fair to us the viewers and certainly not fair to them.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 8:24 pm
Well,after reading the boys posts,I am not surprised,but a little disapointed. Ok,they get money,but why make them look like whackos for the sake of entertainment?
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Annie
Member
11-10-2004
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 12:11 am
IMO....I think hippy dad uses being a Taoist to relieve himself of responsibility. Sharing a bedroom w/ your teenage kids?? Come on now, does that mean they are subject to mom and dad's "private time"?? I thought the TN kids were totally making fun of hippie mom. She didn't deserve that, music is important to her and her family, it's not R&B, but it's what she's used to. Hippie dad is gonna loose a few more bricks, when he finds out Tn mom spent their money, how dare someone tell him what to do!! Perhaps Tn mom can translate her ideas of spending their money into Chinese so he will feel more comfortable.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 2:45 am
many cultures share a common bedroom ....My aunt's family on the farm needed to share a room as they were in a very small house. Of course, when the kids hit a certain age they move into basement or build an addition. There is no way that ANYONE in that area/town/ social group would say it is okay that the teenaged boys sleep with the parents. What a source of embarrassment!!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 7:05 am
Oh in Santa Cruz people pride themselves on being a bit weird [OK--more than a bit]. I'm sure many many people they know think the sleeping arrangements are perfectly fine. Hell, I'm practically a republican in Santa Cruz! Even UC Santa Cruz just started to give grades in the recent past. They used to give "narrative evaluations" to students! And, no kidding, I almost went there to do my Ph.D. work in their "History of Consciousness" program.
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Mssilhouette
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 10:30 am
Even reading what the son wrote in his blog. He says that 99% of what TaoDad said was accurate. So even with the editing he is still over the top when it comes to his kids.
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 11:58 am
I am with the boys from their blog. I would so much prefer to see these two families get along. I would have loved to see those kids laughing along with TN mom or TN kids having fun with Taoist mom. Thats better tv, imo, but who am i, i guess...
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 1:41 pm
I just want to comment on the family bed. I got a lot of crap from friends and family when they would realize we had a family bed with our kids. The difference was that at about age 4 both my kids didn't want to participate in it. They thought it was way cooler to sleep in their own beds. The kids always had their own rooms with beds and everything else but we always had their cribs in our room and when they went to big kids beds (age 2 ish) they ended up sleeping with us and we didn't say no. We put a mattress on the floor for them. Just for those who are more curious than others we had to be more creative in the husband/wife romantic business. I find walking around town without shoes more odd than the family bed. Just my 2 cents.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 5:05 pm
Lilfair, that was a choice that you gave your children to make and having a family bed is very healthy for young families. ********************* Generally I think we'd all agree that teenage boys with natural nightly hormonal stuff happenings are NOT going to feel comfortable with MOM and DAD sleeping a few feets away. I had a very interesting debate with a lady who was allowing her husband to sleep alone with her two daughters...I found it unacceptable considering normal male nightly occurrences. I hate to be a psychiatrist straighting out these kids who end up involved in that kind of braintwisting. I dont think that these boys were given a legitimate choice, as you can imagine these parents would have taken it personally as a rejection of 'them and their lifestyle choice'. These boys constantly glanced over at their father to see what he was doing in response to the New Mom. They gauged their reaction in response to their dads. ((I was raised on a farm and my shoes came off the minute I was home. These people are living an unhealthy lifestyle and putting the children at risk allowing them to walk in town without shoes.)) bacteria, glass, needles, nails, chemicals, hookworm, other parasites would all be a risk.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 11:19 am
Could someone please fill me in on what happened the last few minutes of the show. I tvoed it and it didn't tape the last 5 min or so. It stopped taping at the point when TN mom was planning her parting and she and p0p where arguing about it.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 12:57 pm
The above post was supposed to say, when she was planning her party.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 1:16 pm
Sorry I can't help Kristy! They cut most of the show off where I live cuz a fire in downtown Chicago was "breaking news" and rudely interrupted my show!!!
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 2:33 pm
Kristy, the only other thing that happened at the end of the party planning was that TN mom said she was taking the boys shopping for tennis shoes the next day and they would have to wear them intil the last guest left the party. The dad said she could buy the shoes but they did not have to wear them, causing another minor argument. This is when he told her that they never "make" the boys do anything, that it would have to be their choice. It was left hanging at this point, to be continued... lol.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 5:26 pm
Oh GREAT Cathie, I didn't miss as much as I thought. Thank you sooooo very much!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, December 10, 2004 - 2:41 am
the difference was that when the lady said she was taking the boys shopping they kind of looked excited but then the dad said NO! then she said that it was HER rules and the two boys simply sat quietly, not daring to say anything with their heads completely turned sideways watching their dad get angry. The dad said she could buy the shoes but they did not have to wear them, causing another minor argument. I might be remembering incorrectly but I could have sworn that he said that there was NO WAY they were going to wear the shoes...and SHE replied that they could if they wanted to. He said NO, but then said he Never makes them do anything ROTFL. Those poor boys sat quiet as churchmice. They truly seem a little afraid of upsetting their dad.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, December 10, 2004 - 7:07 pm
well, i am a native californian and have lived in new york city and boston and quebec. berkeley was a little strange but i just didn't hang with some of the people i thought were wacko! everyone was hardworking, family-oriented, etc. i grew up 12 miles from santa cruz (in the santa cruz mountains off summit road on highway 17) and practically lived in the town as a teen. all i remember big time was that there were more police in one small town than i had ever seen in my life, and you had to feed those damn parking meters when you were at the beach! tv shows have given us the 'wackos' from santa cruz. lex from survivor, this family on the trading moms. they are the exception. now, if you want strange, go to far northern california to places like 'river spirit' and 'mad hatter' or whatever. all the communes and people with made-up names. my sis lived with a guy named shayom, but he was really steve. then she married a kai, who was really a steve. maybe it's a steve thing! i thought the goth family was over the top, especially education-wise, but the dad in the other family spent way too many years in the military or something. the difference between God and this man is that God doesn't think he's this man.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, December 10, 2004 - 7:11 pm
Goth family? Military dad? I think you are thinking of WifeSwap!
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