For A Second I Thought The Duggar's Were Having Another Kid

I read this headline in Kneepads and it stopped me cold. "Another Duggar Girl On The Way!" I thought to myself, oh please no. No more kids for these families on TLC. It turns out though it was just announcing the fact that the Duggar kid who got married found out on live television this morning the sex of the child he is having with his wife. Whew. I don't know why they had to do that on national television. Oh, wait a second. Yes, I do. I think the Duggar's might be feeling a little attention starved with all of the attention Jon and Kate are getting. I think that explains the reason why you had the married couple and his dad on television this morning plugging the heck out of their show.

Some very good news in all of this is that Joshua Duggar said that he and his wife will be happy with just two or three kids. I think she will even be more happy that she is not expected to try and have 18 kids. Of course unless they have like 10 or 11 they can probably kiss their television careers goodbye. Oh, wait someone who isn't going to have kids just to make money off them. That is a novel concept. To me as a television viewer I think I would be much more interested in a show about a day care center. That way those of you who want to watch 20 kids running around screaming can have that and the rest of us can watch as the cameras follow home some of the parents of the kids and the struggles they face everyday raising their one or two children on real paychecks and having to live a real life. Wait though. That is reality. We can't have reality on reality television. Reality is depressing. We would much rather watch some fairytale reality where two parents manage to raise 8 kids and yet have time to vacation all over the world live in a huge house and don't worry about anything except when they can get a spa appointment.