Temperance

On that photo, she looks like combo of Jill and Jessa. I don't notice the resemblance as much as adults, but in the picture with Hannie it's there.

"baiting the Duggars"! I wonder if anyone who has a TLC show feels "baited" that TLC put them on the air after Joshgate I or kept them on the air after they wrote a book admitting they were inspired by the Pearls' parenting techniques, or back on the air after Joshgates became public, etc. Why hasn't Sex Sent Me to ER "baited the Duggars"? Or "Breaking Amish" which theoretically was about conservative religious kids "escaping" their upbringing? Or Say Yes to the Dress, with the most defrauding wedding dresses EVER? (To be fair if you want to wear a sexy wedding dress, that's your choice and I'm not judging.) I haven't watched the network much lately. I'm sure there are other and better examples. Since the person used to watch TLC 24/7, they watched Say Yes to the Dress? Sex Sent Me to ER? Nude Real Estate? Strange Sex? I haven't heard of the any Duggars "took the bait". I stopped watching TLC and the Duggars. I'm back for Jazz, but not the Duggars' show.

Actually what I remember of the early were the little boys all lined up all saying they wanted to be missionaries. Every Single One Of Them. In the specials, the little girls (Johannah and Jennifer) were born, and the littlest (Jordyn and Josie) were born on tv. Josh wanted to be a lawyer around the time he moved to DC. Before any of the girls were courting, Jill wanted to be a midwife. Probably it was that time that Josiah wanted to be an accountant. (So that would be around 2012-2013).The specials started around 2004, the show debuted in 2008, and the show ended in 2015. That's a long time, so it makes the timeline gets muddled. Just fixing it for you.

I googled the author and the book. The reviews on Amazon are over 90% positive, because a lot of people tend to write positive reviews. Some people believe it is mean or unfair to leave negative reviews (in case it affects the author's reputation). Some authors have even bullied reviewers on Goodreads over a bad review. It's possible many fundie Christians are the types to believe it's mean to leave a negative reviews. This author is a talk radio host who specializes into teaching his followers into defending their beliefs among atheists, Mormons, etc. by having verbal arguments.(Why Mormons? Ask him.) Anyway he probably would think Derick is right on with his Twitter account ministry.

Huh? I assumed it would be fellowshipping with other married couples. It isn't geared towards high school kids is it? Also how would they whether people can have sex? If I was single and lived in the area, I'd bring a date and hold hands the entire time. Just because! If they asked I could pretend to be married or say "I just met this person, and I think your courtship rules are dumb." If they honestly liked or worse looked up to JB and Michelle, then a relationship would be definitely OVER. But if they understood my love of snarking on them or my concerns over their beliefs, it would be nice for us to go. Just so we could snark on them later.

I had hoped with the youngest with getting older that she would have a lot more free time. But here comes the next generation, the young grandchildren pouring in. It would nice if all those younger brothers either worked on her garden or had their own gardens.

The Maxwells have their most popular blogpost ever, as they ask the readers for advice on kids' toothpaste.

LOL!

I like blogger Libby Anne and she has done several posts on Michael Pearl. You can read it if you want to know more, but it is graphic and discusses abuse done to children. If I could like this 100 times, I would. In season 5 of Archer, Ray (who used to be a preacher) says during an argument about the bible "I can't say for sure, because my church didn't really do the new testament". I didn't get that line the first time I heard, but I do now.

I'd agree with most of this, and add Amy was an older bride for AR. I'm not engaging is how I'd describe her extended family. The reason they got a show is that there were so many of them and they did things a little bit differently. (Or a lot differently in the beginning).

I didn't see any new posts, but I did see her Facebook page like an hour ago. (I checked after you posted, and I don't follow her on Facebook or anything.)

What lockdown?

That's if they're rather slow in reproducing. more like 8 or 10.

I thought the Willis family was Catholic, both generations.

I know people who eat like them. Mostly I remember the cereal and the sundaes. It also goes back to Michelle being the youngest and married at 17. She probably never learned to cook herself. At the same time they shop for food like they shop for clothes. They only buy what makes them feel like they're saving money. In America, a lot of clothes are super cheap, and they could probably shop at stores and webstores and spend about the same. (With maybe special trips, to find very long skirts, but even those are coming in.) But they have to shop at thrift stores, because that's make them look they're big savers.

What does Joy's shirt say? As for the Pearls comment, it says to me marriage is not broadening her horizons enough.

That is really sad. I had a friend who lost a family member. They set up a page to pay for the burial. I didn't recognize the money site (meaning it didn't seem too secure) and money is tight, so I didn't give. But the only thing they asked for was the funeral/burial expenses. My friend grew up poor and this family did not have money. If they asked for other things, I might not have blamed them. I would have felt differently about it if they were wealthier. It used to be people would just show up with food, but that doesn't happen anymore or as much as it use to. My advice is to block the other family. You don't like them, and they probably won't notice.

I'm surprised considering it would be easy to confirm this speculation, by watching the same feed Rabbittron watches. Those tabloids probably can do screen grabs better than anybody.

Sonic the drive-in from America? Look I get wanting something familiar/from home in terms of food, but bragging about going to said fast food place in a foreign country isn't something I'd brag about. I probably wouldn't post about it unless the menu had something culturally different about it to appeal to people of that region/country.

@Celia Rubenstein and @GeeGolly, you guys never talk about your hearts for Jesus. I'm willing to point to the points of the triangle, if someone else will explain the triangle principle, and make the triangle at your nuptials. Topic: Dan's dogs looked cared for, and sweet.

Well more to the point, Erin doesn't follow Gothard, since Gothard was ousted at IBLP. So she can still be IBLP and no longer following Mr. Gothard.

Yes, it's a thing, but I'm not sure everyone agrees to it. It's more like one movement inside fundie culture. It's hard to say what's going on. I think every fundie family is different. None of the fundies we know of (Bates, Duggars, Rodrigues) openly subscribe to the stay-at-home daughter movement, (meaning they don't say they believe in it) and it's not part of IBLP as far as I know. Michael got married when she was 25 which is older than any of the Duggar brides so far. Kelly had stopped having babies a few year before. She also had other daughters to help around the house. Chelsy Bontrager Maxwell just got married at 26 almost 27. Jill Duggar was 23 when she married. Nurie is 18 and hardly an old maid, even in their culture. I really believe that Jana is the next Duggar girl to get married and suspect may be her own choosy nature (no judgement) is why she is single. The only fundies we know of who do seem to have some beliefs about stay-at-home daughters are the Maxwells. They have three adult daughters who live at home and none of them are teenagers. Their new sister-in-law Chelsy had this to say on her blog a few months ago:

Josh and Anna seemed really into each other when they were young and courting (and especially while engaged!). It's the revelations about Josh and his stress about being responsible for a bigger and bigger family that have caused tension and disinterest.

I haven't been to a wedding where they did this. I like the idea, but I think it would work better with the bridesmaid in a certain style or length. For example every one in sleveless (still a few options) instead of some people with long sleeves and some with thin straps. On the other hand, it seems much better than the wedding I went to where the bride made her bridesmaids purchase the same ugly shoes.

That died out decades ago. I've worn black to weddings. I went to one where the bridesmaids were in black.