Wanna have 17 Children?

[Sol]

Originally Posted by TAPPY

Check out their website:

The Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar Family

Gotta love those family recipes....Tater Tot Cassarole !!!

Eeeew! There is some kind of chicken tortilla soup where chicken is optional?
What is liquid amino? Some of these recipes are horrible. No spices except for the chili they prepare and the green bean recipe. I guess they have to keep them easy if they have the fifteen year old preparing lunch.

[jamesblonde]

Just read their bio. They're Realtors too. Imagine what's gonna happen now that the market is so ugly

On a serious note. You gotta hand it to them. They seem to have it all under control. The kids are well groomed and seem to be well mannered. I'm sure none of them will be spoiled or expect anything without lifting a finger to get it. It's an interesting life, not one I'd want, but they seem to be pulling it off.

I'm just wondering how they found the time and privacy to conceive little Jennifer

[TAPPY]

If you get a chance...watch the Discovery channel when they have one of their shows on about the family.

They are all happy, clean and smiling and life is so great...very Stepford wife-ish !!!

I mean even the Waltons had fights !!!

[JillyinMN]

Originally Posted by Sol

Eeeew! There is some kind of chicken tortilla soup where chicken is optional?
What is liquid amino? Some of these recipes are horrible. No spices except for the chili they prepare and the green bean recipe. I guess they have to keep them easy if they have the fifteen year old preparing lunch.

I was wondering the same thing I can't say that I saw any recipes that I had to have!

[kayt707]

Heck Ive only got 2(3 sometimes if you count Matt) And Im willing to rent them out half the time

I child-proofed my house.
But, somehow they still get in.

[blondeandblue]

No. Just no. My son is 16. 'nuff said. Seventeen kids? That's insane.

[Sol]

Originally Posted by jamnkats

I'm guessing amino acids (I seem to remember seeing bottles of that stuff in health food stores).

Ok...that is what I was thinking.

[Sol]

Originally Posted by TAPPY

If you get a chance...watch the Discovery channel when they have one of their shows on about the family.

They are all happy, clean and smiling and life is so great...very Stepford wife-ish !!!

I mean even the Waltons had fights !!!

It is obvious that they have a very strong income. They take trips, fly in private planes, and have that huge house. They are making money based on them being a huge family; it's a business for them. After seeing what a typical day in their household entails...sheesh..those kids are being so programmed: names, religous study, home schooling chores. Stuff is going to fly when one of them decides to rebel. What is even creepier is that "Daddy" is a politician.

[Sol]

Originally Posted by kayt707

Heck Ive only got 2(3 sometimes if you count Matt) And Im willing to rent them out half the time

I child-proofed my house.
But, somehow they still get in.

A close friend of mine is from a family of ten. She is a twin. Once she told me that during the summer, her mom would feed the kids breakfast and then have them go outside. She would lock the doors and leave them out there. At lunch, she would have them come in or stay outside, under some trees and serve them lunch. Her mom would go back inside and lock the door. She take a nap, read, and/or finish cleaning the house. When dad came home, the kids got to come back in and have dinner. This family lived on a farm and had plenty of property for the kids to run all over the place.

[Rissask]

In the past people often had huge families....whether it was because no one used birth control, birth control was either unreliable or unavailable, or because big families were needed to help on the farm, whatever- it was normal. Today when you see families like the Duggins', it's a bit of a shock because it's so not the norm. I work with an engineer whose wife just had their 11th child (religious reasons- "We are having as many children as god will give us." he says- jeez, I think- why do you think god gave us the Pill? )

On one hand, I think hey, whatever, it's their choice, none of my business.

But honestly, I think it's just criminal in todays overpopulated world to have so many children- if every one of those kids grow up to have say, an average of three children each, that means in 3 generations you have gone from 2 people to 51 people.
Not exactly the direction we should be moving in, today- even more so when you think they live in the country where people have the largest footprint- they may be living sustainably but that doesn't mean the following generations will.

I don't think they are bad or wrong- just that their choice to have so many children is a bit...irresponsible in many ways.

[jamesblonde]

Hey Maggie, you're back. How was Cabo???

[jevans]

my grandpa was one of 18. they were wyoming ranchers. as mentioned, they all worked the ranch.

we went to a family reunion a number of years ago and all 18 of the kids and my great grandma were there. the kids ranged in age from their 30's to their 60's. I was related to alot of people I didn't even know.

[jamesblonde]

My birth father was from Arkansas. He and my mother divorced when I was 3 and my step father raised me, so I really didn't know my real dad's family. But, he was from a family of 14 kids. His father came from a family of 26 kids Different mother's, same dad. Anyway, my real dad passed away in April of 2000. I went back to Arkansas for the funeral. My brothers and I were at breakfast with 3 of my dad's siblings. My aunt was pointing around the restaurant and saying, "he's your kin, she's your kin, that table over there, those are all your kin". I just leaned over to my brother and said "man it'd be hell to date in this town". When they talk about the family tree and just one branch, sometimes they aren't kidding

[jevans]

Originally Posted by jamesblonde

My birth father was from Arkansas. He and my mother divorced when I was 3 and my step father raised me, so I really didn't know my real dad's family. But, he was from a family of 14 kids. His father came from a family of 26 kids Different mother's, same dad. Anyway, my real dad passed away in April of 2000. I went back to Arkansas for the funeral. My brothers and I were at breakfast with 3 of my dad's siblings. My aunt was pointing around the restaurant and saying, "he's your kin, she's your kin, that table over there, those are all your kin". I just leaned over to my brother and said "man it'd be hell to date in this town". When they talk about the family tree and just one branch, sometimes they aren't kidding

your wife is your sister is your cousin is your..........

[Rissask]

Originally Posted by jamesblonde

Hey Maggie, you're back. How was Cabo???

hey babe

let's see.....good and bad........weather was awesome, hot and sunny every day, but dry....gorgeous water, crystal clear, some nice beaches, but not great snorkeling- and the water was COLD until the last day some warmer water finally moved in...we never caught our roosterfish *sniff* but some skipjack and amberjack, the latter was really tasty!

Our hotel was noisy and a real dive, but at least it was clean and in a good location.

But we didn't really like the area in general, we like tropical over desert I guess, although it was quite pretty. But it was so expensive , busy and over-developed there! Very Americanized for sure, and the timeshare sharks and beach peddlars, since we were non AI, were very annoying.

We figured though, that if we had stayed at a really nice AI hotel in the corridor, we likely would have had a much better time, but it is not really the best place to go if you like staying non-AI.

Hotel choice makes a bigger difference than we previously thought to how much we enjoy a vacation! (like, there was no pool, just a dinky unheated jacuzzi thing on the roof- we really missed having a pool).