Jon & Kate Plus 8: Stressed My Foot!

Jon & Kate Plus 8 is growing more controversial due to the way Kate Gosselin treats her nine kids (Jon's one of them, remember?). Jon & Kate Plus 8 has many fans, and some think Kate is a greedy drama queen; while other Jon & Kate lovers think she has a right to yell at Jon and make him look bad to the kids. Jon & Kate fans love to point out that Kate is under all this stress: "Let's see YOU raise eight kids!" Gnarly Kate gets a pass for disrespecting Jon, showing preferential treatment to the girls and banning play that might cause stains, because she is stressed to the hilt. Jon & Kate Plus 8 is not edited to make it seem this way.

Jon & Kate Plus 8 editors cannot "edit" what's already not there. Whether Jon & Kate editors cut Kate's loving scenes with her kids or not, no amount of cut tender scenes counteracts all the classic Jon & Kate moments showing Kate having a meltdown. But that's okay, because the stress of raising eight normal, healthy kids is unthinkable. Jon & Kate fans act as though nobody could have it worse, and Kate is a martyr of sorts, a saint for popping out eight healthy normal kids, and an angel for keeping all eight healthy normal kids.

I'm so fed up with this stress thing that I interviewed a mother of seven kids, Georga Hackworth, an AC writer from Leesburg, VA. Her kids' ages are 15, 14, 13, 11, 10, 8 and 7.

JH: How does raising your kids make Kate's job seem easy, despite the chaos on Jon & Kate Plus 8?
GH: Two of them have autism, my 14-year-old and 7-year-old. My 10-year-old has both Graves Disease (hyperthyroidism) and celiac disease. Another one has central auditory processing disorder. As for food allergies, there are about 20 of them scattered between all seven kids. Some of them are life-threatening, so certain foods can't even come in the house. Two of the kids have asthma. You want challenging, try dealing with a 7-year-old autistic boy with food and asthma.