Now, you can say what you want about Kate having all of those children being interviewed like that…on this particular day – January 26, 2009 – they were being interviewed because Octomom had just had her children and everyone wanted to interview Kate. Remember that date! Say she is “working them too hard” whatever. They “shouldn’t be working”, etc. But they have been working with the Dept. of Labor – from what I can tell long before these “claims of an investigation” came out. Plus, that part is on TLC, NOT KATE, in my opinion. She knows what her children can handle and what they can’t. If that is against the rules, then it’s up to the show to know that – not Kate!

Back to “Water-gate”!!

Remember, Kate is the one doing 90% of the talking. Ever tried to talk with a dry mouth? Kate is the personality type that would be frustrated with herself for tripping over her words because she had dry mouth!

None of the other children were whining “I am thirsty”!! JUST MADY – and like another person mentioned, that is a very common emotion from her. I don’t condemn her for it though…she is a very normal 8 yo who uses her emotions!

Kate made arrangements for when that 5 minute (or less!) interview was over, then their helper would have water for them in their “special cups”. I don’t know for sure, but these could very easily be non-spilling cups.

When you have one child and give them a cup and it spills, no big deal. When you have 8 children together and give them a cup and a few of them spill it, it is not only a mess but then you have the chance of 8 of them disolving into screams of “I AM ALL WET! Hannah spilled water down my back!” or “Collin spilled it on my head!” or any number of other scenerios.

Or if Kate gave Mady the water – remember, they told her right before they were going on air live! – the others would start whining, complaining, crying or screaming “I WANT SOME!” “It was my turn to have the water first!” “No fair, she got more than me!”

She IS their mother and she knows what stuff like that will bring about…and that would be VERY UNPROFESSIONAL for the camera to cut to them LIVE screaming about one bottle of water!

Can you IMAGINE if that had happened? There would be complaints of “Why only one bottle of water? She is a complete idiot – she KNEW that would happen!”

But even more than all of that, there may be RULES about that type of thing! The bottle of water didn’t have a cover over the label. If that was seen on camera, there may be problems. I don’t know for sure, but that probably wouldn’t really enter our minds…but Kate has had to deal with this for many years. She knows what can be seen on camera and what can’t and the problems it causes for sponsors, etc. They couldn’t “blur it out” because it was live. This may NOT have been an issue, but it may have been something else in Kate’s mind. Because she did try to reach for it – where she put it WAY out of her reach and out of camera sight. But when they told her there was no time, she couldn’t give it to her.

Some or all of these scenerios could have been going through Kate’s head. This all happened in less than a minute! She was there to be professional, do her job and doing things properly so she gets invited back. As she has said, this IS her job!

Again, say what you will about those children having to be “professional” – but this was a rare day. Many of their interviews take place in their home. Or they do ONE interview. But this day, it was multiple stations wanting her input because of Octomom. But there is absolutely no denying that when they are in situations such as this – I am certainly not saying all though! – they are definitely working!

But child stars do the “interviewing circuit” all the time. Talk shows – which are longer than these snipits of basically “sound bite interviews” (3 minutes or less probably with the interviewer!) They will spend a week or more “promoting” whatever it is they are promoting. This is not an everyday occurance for the Gosselin children.

My biggest reason for having a problem with this coming out this past week – again more than 4 MONTHS after it happened – is that whoever was in charge obviously felt it was NO BIG DEAL at the time…or it would have been released as “fodder for the masses”. After all, they put out the “I like Daddy better than you” and the “I don’t like the tups cause they lie and are annoying!” – both of those coming from Mady of course!

Last but not least, again remembering Kate is Mady’s mother, she knows what is just “Mady being Mady” (and of course, the same is true for the other 7…Hannah being Hannan or Joel being Joel, etc!) or if she is really so thirsty she can’t go on another minute without having something. I saw that as Mady was tired and bored – the other children were interacting with each other, playing with their slinkies, etc. Cara was playing with the tups on the couch, keeping them occupied. The ones on the floor were doing their own thing. Mady was sitting next to her mom and was constantly trying to interact with her. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT – don’t get me wrong! But Kate also had a “job” to do and to be professional about it…remember, they go through “Media Training” to learn how to act in situations like this. And being cut to “live” with the tups all screaming and yelling for a sip of water from one water ball would be again, very unprofessional and Kate being the type of person she is, well that just wouldn’t be OK! There are sure, some mothers that wouldn’t care what-so-ever if her children were all melting into crying, screaming youngsters – but that is not Kate. Face it, the reason we all started loving this family is because they were so happy, seemingly healthy and entertaining. As a mother, you KNOW what it sounds like when they all “melt” at the same time. It’s different when it happens on live tv, with the camera cutting to that scene. It’s just not acceptable – again, say what you will about this comment – but that could cause her to lose her job! People don’t want to hear that kind of thing and trust me, there would be complaints!

Since again, these interviews that day were very short, all 8 had water in their hands within 5 minutes if I were to bet.

I think so many people have forgotten that we do NOT get to tell people how to live their lives or raise their chidlren. If they are breaking laws or abusing them (which would of course be breaking a law!) then fine…fix it, punish them, whatever it takes.

That does NOT mean the children get taken from her – can you imagine that court scene? The judge is shown how Kate withheld water from them for 5 minutes therefore her children should be taken away? Because while that is not what RS is saying, many others are elsewhere! They are saying this is the “PROOF” they have been looking for that she is an evil, nasty monster and not a mother.

And I can say these things because what I see are very normal 5 and 8 year old children. They are actually very happy and seemingly well-adjusted.

I am sure some – or many – will jump on some or all of this post (if they even read it…LOL!!) but it is how I see it.

Also wanted to point out on WHo-AHn’s exit interview, he mentions how he looks forward to hanging out with Ed, Jake and Reid… The way it sounds to me, none of them are the F1… Hmmm and I liked Ed and Reid for our bachelorette. Too bad!