The Baby Borrowers... new show about what it takes to raise children

[greenbriar]

gives teens who think raising kids is no big thing some time with real kids


this might be good reality


starts on NBC in Feb



Baby Borrowers is a unique social experiment that takes five teenage couples on a rollercoaster ride of adult responsibility, allowing them to experience parenting firsthand. Desperate to have their own life and family, our lovebirds are thrown in at the deep end. They?re given real houses and real responsibilities ? the most important
of which is to look after children from a range of age groups. They?ll begin with an infant, followed by a toddler, pre-teen, young teenager, and lastly a senior citizen. In the end, will these couples be able to cope with the pressure of parenthood or will they break?

http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Baby_Borrowers/

[greenbriar]

1. I have always said if kids had to really do the parenting it might make them think twice

http://www.nbc.com/The_Baby_Borrowers/

[JuniperLea]

2. I've always felt education in child birth and child rearing...

Would be the best tool to decrease the number of abortions, unwanted/orphaned children, over-crowded schools, and take the burdon off the welfare system. I'm sure this is the short list!

Good to see this. Thanks for posting.

Those kids should spend some time in a maternity ward too!

[greenbriar]

3. no kidding

those girls would think twice !!!


let them see a tiny woman giving birth to a 10 lb baby without drugs


I think that would be all the birth control they would ever need!!!!!!!!

[LibDemAlways]

4. Seniors at my daughter's high school still do the old

routine of carrying a doll around for a week as a "life skills class" assignment, as a way of supposedly learning what it's like to care for an infant. I was substitute teaching one day and observed kids leaving the dolls under desks, carrying them by the hair, etc. Actually being responsible for a baby would be a real eye-opener. I wish it was possible for every teenager to do it. The school has a "job shadowing" program where students must spend a couple of days following someone around a place of business. There should be a similar parenting program where the teen is required, with adult supervision, to look after a small child for a few days. No more important "life skill" than that.

[greenbriar]

5. I am going to record this

maybe have an after school study group with my girls. I have a lot of 14-15 year olds who think having a baby is easy and they would "have someone to love them"


they don't think of all the rest that goes along with it

[LibDemAlways]

6. I got a late start at parenting. I was 40 when I had my

one and only child. Caring for an infant was the hardest thing I've ever done.

A few sleepless nights responding to a baby's every cry would cure most teenagers of any inclination they had toward premature parenthood.

[gollygee]

7. They should at least make the doll scream every night from 8 pm to 4 am

I personally wouldn't volunteer my kid for a class like that. But just watching a doll hardly lets anyone know how difficult babies are. Have it scream if you ever set it down, and then scream for hours each night, and then scream every couple of hours when hungry, and then scream randomly as well just to keep you on your toes.

[LibDemAlways]

8. I agree. The dolls are a stupid idea. At my

daughter's school, though, the course is mandatory. Would be much much better if the students could have some supervised experience caring for an infant.

[greenbriar]

9. I imagine this show will be very supervised

I think it will be a great eye opener