Kid Nation

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I don't really have a problem with the chicken thing. My daughter recently spent a weekend at the Global Village run by Heifer International. They actually went through almost the same thing with the group having to decide whether they needed to kill a rabbit to survive.

I think it's a powerful lesson for the kids. Even if a kids not a vegetarian it's good that they understand exactly where and how we get meat.

The standard reality show editing bothers me more then anything else. These kids are going to be type cast by the whole world when they don't even understand how it works.

One of my daughters teachers is requiring that they watch it, so like it or not I'm stuck watching it.

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That seems odd for a teach to require their class to watch a reality show. That sounds like the kind of teacher I would be.

"OK class, watch America's Next Top Model and write an essay on how difficult modeling is."

[Mugsy]

Blame the parents. It's what I say in response to a LOT of things.

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kw said:

That seems odd for a teach to require their class to watch a reality show. That sounds like the kind of teacher I would be.

"OK class, watch America's Next Top Model and write an essay on how difficult modeling is."

heh. It's a social studies class so maybe he thought it would have some cultural value. I don't know.

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[quote author=mugsy board=television thread=1187528323 post=1190894196 No one cares that lettuce screams when you pick it.[/quote]

What?

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Some scientists did a study a long time ago where they hooked up super microphones to garden lettuce and they picked up a high-pitched "scream" when they plucked the leaves. Like you're tearing off its limbs. I mean, think about it. Produce is from plants in their prime - they haven't lived their whole life cycle yet, which is completed when the fruit dries up, falls off and allows the seeds to hit the ground and hopefully take root. So if you pick off its fruit, it's like you're taking away its future. Heh. I always refer to that study when people get all PETA on me.

Aaaaaanyway. Topic. I don't have a problem with older kids doing a show like this, maybe 12+. But some of them are only eight years old! Who would let their eight year old go off in the wilderness and live with total strangers for a month, and let strangers film the process? The more I think about it, the more awful it sounds.

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I agree it sounds awful in theory... But in practice? I'm loving every minute of it! And I have no shame. I snark on the kids terribly throughout the show, inviting incredulous looks from my husband.

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There was this scene from an earlier episode that sent the wrong message about drinking, but the saloon scenes from last night where kids were drinking shots to drown their sorrow was even more ridiculous. Since when do kids pretend to get drunk.

I get that this is supposed to be funny and the kids were told to do this stuff for good t.v., but there are kids watching the show that might not realize this and think it's cool to chug root beer like a fratboy.

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I would like to see what Taylor's mother is like. I would be curled up in a ball if the other kids talked to me like that. She just smiles and shakes her head. She wants to be the first woman president and I really do believe that she will not let anything get in her way. Except maybe a few dishes. Or she replaces those fake shooters with the real stuff as she becomes older.

I would have picked the golf course.

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I totally would have picked the golf course! I was; however, pleased that the kids seemed to be using the religious books primarily for research and learning about each other's beliefs.

And really, producers? Religion? Next week are they going to have to decide whether or not to implement the death penalty? How about abortion? Or killing small creatures? Oh yeah, they already killed the chickens.