Teen mom USA (the next chapter) #4

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I know Barbara yelled at Jenelle and made plenty of parenting mistakes…but I don’t think she can be accused of not caring about either Jenelle or Jace or not constantly trying to doing things to the best of her ability.

Something I really do like about Barbara is that on Teen Mom, she comes across as completely honest not doing a single thing for the cameras..no airs and graces whatsoever, if she’s not happy with her daughter’s behaviour she going to shout about it, and if she’s not convinced she can be a good mother she’s not giving up custody…that was apparent from the very beginning and she stayed true to that all the way through, plus she gave every one of Jenelle’s boyfriends/husbands the chance to prove themselves before she would fall out with them over things that she was in the right about. That’s why I would side with her over Jenelle anyway in a question of which one of them is more capable or more truthful.

Also, if you listen carefully, amongst all the arguments, her intention was always to transition Jace over to Janelle for fully custody at a point where it became appropriate. During earlier series Barbara tried to do it with him staying with his mother at weekends, but Janelle wasn’t happy…wanting him full time…but Barbara wanted it done slowly to ensure the stability was there and it didn’t backfire, especially because Jenelle was living in a different school district so it would be a lot of upheavals for Jace if the main custodian kept flip-flopping. Yet Jenelle proceeded to try to get her way via court action rather than proving herself slowly.

It also must irk Barbara that she has spent most of her adult life working in Walmart to raise her kids, and Jenelle, who left her mother in a position where she had to make the decision to raise a grandchild while still working, dossed about smoking weed then hit the jackpot with a reality tv paycheck.

As an aside, I think if Barbara had ever found herself the right type of man, she would have had the support to learn how to react differently and deal with stressful situations appropriately. When she did have a husband/partner, he seemed to lurk quietly in the background and although I can understand him not involving himself with Jenelle directly, he never talked Barbara down or offered her tea and sympathy either. She comes across to me as someone who needs to have someone lead her away to another room and be told to take some deep breaths before things escalate…because Jenelle was only ever going to escalate as well, so as the parent Barbara needed to learn not to react to her, and to instead put in place calmly considered consequences, rather than yelling at her every time she behaved in a way that prevented her being a mother to Jace.

One thing that also stands out, is that for all the things over the years that Barbara did for Jace, including looking after him while Jenelle was in jail and couldn’t have cared for him even if she’d had custody…she never got a thank you or any kind of praise, not from Jenelle and possibly from no one else either.
 
Eye_Spy said:
I know Barbara yelled at Jenelle and made plenty of parenting mistakes…but I don’t think she can be accused of not caring about either Jenelle or Jace or not constantly trying to doing things to the best of her ability.

Something I really do like about Barbara is that on Teen Mom, she comes across as completely honest not doing a single thing for the cameras..no airs and graces whatsoever, if she’s not happy with her daughter’s behaviour she going to shout about it, and if she’s not convinced she can be a good mother she’s not giving up custody…that was apparent from the very beginning and she stayed true to that all the way through, plus she gave every one of Jenelle’s boyfriends/husbands the chance to prove themselves before she would fall out with them over things that she was in the right about. That’s why I would side with her over Jenelle anyway in a question of which one of them is more capable or more truthful.

Also, if you listen carefully, amongst all the arguments, her intention was always to transition Jace over to Janelle for fully custody at a point where it became appropriate. During earlier series Barbara tried to do it with him staying with his mother at weekends, but Janelle wasn’t happy…wanting him full time…but Barbara wanted it done slowly to ensure the stability was there and it didn’t backfire, especially because Jenelle was living in a different school district so it would be a lot of upheavals for Jace if the main custodian kept flip-flopping. Yet Jenelle proceeded to try to get her way via court action rather than proving herself slowly.

It also must irk Barbara that she has spent most of her adult life working in Walmart to raise her kids, and Jenelle, who left her mother in a position where she had to make the decision to raise a grandchild while still working, dossed about smoking weed then hit the jackpot with a reality tv paycheck.

As an aside, I think if Barbara had ever found herself the right type of man, she would have had the support to learn how to react differently and deal with stressful situations appropriately. When she did have a husband/partner, he seemed to lurk quietly in the background and although I can understand him not involving himself with Jenelle directly, he never talked Barbara down or offered her tea and sympathy either. She comes across to me as someone who needs to have someone lead her away to another room and be told to take some deep breaths before things escalate…because Jenelle was only ever going to escalate as well, so as the parent Barbara needed to learn not to react to her, and to instead put in place calmly considered consequences, rather than yelling at her every time she behaved in a way that prevented her being a mother to Jace.

One thing that also stands out, is that for all the things over the years that Barbara did for Jace, including looking after him while Jenelle was in jail and couldn’t have cared for him even if she’d had custody…she never got a thank you or any kind of praise, not from Jenelle and possibly from no one else either.
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As a watcher of Teen Mom from the beginning, this is absolutely spot on!
 
Eye_Spy said:
As an aside, I think if Barbara had ever found herself the right type of man, she would have had the support to learn how to react differently and deal with stressful situations appropriately. When she did have a husband/partner, he seemed to lurk quietly in the background and although I can understand him not involving himself with Jenelle directly, he never talked Barbara down or offered her tea and sympathy either.
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Agree with your whole summary and in particular the guy you mention here was Mike, and he cheated on Barb!
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Leo100 said:
They do anyway most the Mums seem to have massive 4x4 cars on the show
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Tbh that’s just America, I was recently there and the cars are absolutely huge! I guess if everyone’s got one you have to join in 😂
 
Sorry for jumping the post, comimg from Ireland & watched this from the start OG Girls. Found Teen moms the next chapter on my fire stick, latest ones i think. Just came to say what is this balava with Briannas mom & her 2 girls?? 13 years ago i was watching & knew these girls didnt have the same dad. What do you all think? Brianna looks like her dad was black and her sister looks Latin. Do you think thats why the muns going crazy about them talking to their dad?? Cause they've different dads
 
Pinkpea said:
Sorry for jumping the post, comimg from Ireland & watched this from the start OG Girls. Found Teen moms the next chapter on my fire stick, latest ones i think. Just came to say what is this balava with Briannas mom & her 2 girls?? 13 years ago i was watching & knew these girls didnt have the same dad. What do you all think? Brianna looks like her dad was black and her sister looks Latin. Do you think thats why the muns going crazy about them talking to their dad?? Cause they've different dads
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They do have different dads. This was revealed
 
It was revealed a couple of years back. The reveal played out publicly and unless Britney has taken acting lessons…her shock at this showed genuine devastation that the man she had thought all her life was her father wasn’t, that her mother had lied to her and that her sister wasn’t her full sibling.

What wasn’t explained was the startling obvious…that the two sisters look so clearly ethnically different, that it should have come as no shock to either of them. It’s something that by their early teens they should have noticed and even if Roxanne was lying, they could have easily done some basic pharmacy DNA test kit and found out their either aren’t full siblings or have different ethnic heritage.

It was also never explained why Roxanne let this play out on tv. When Brianna got the part on the first show and then onto teen mom…both her mother and sister signed up to appear as well…why didn’t Roxanne think it would be obvious to the viewers that they weren’t full siblings? Putting themselves on tv, if the sisters were blissfully in denial…was bound to add public pressure on them with this suggestion they didn’t have the same father at some point and cause them to confront the issue.
 
Eye_Spy said:
It was revealed a couple of years back. The reveal played out publicly and unless Britney has taken acting lessons…her shock at this showed genuine devastation that the man she had thought all her life was her father wasn’t, that her mother had lied to her and that her sister wasn’t her full sibling.

What wasn’t explained was the startling obvious…that the two sisters look so clearly ethnically different, that it should have come as no shock to either of them. It’s something that by their early teens they should have noticed and even if Roxanne was lying, they could have easily done some basic pharmacy DNA test kit and found out their either aren’t full siblings or have different ethnic heritage.

It was also never explained why Roxanne let this play out on tv. When Brianna got the part on the first show and then onto teen mom…both her mother and sister signed up to appear as well…why didn’t Roxanne think it would be obvious to the viewers that they weren’t full siblings? Putting themselves on tv, if the sisters were blissfully in denial…was bound to add public pressure on them with this suggestion they didn’t have the same father at some point and cause them to confront the issue.
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TBH I would have just thought one took after Roxanne and one must have took after the Dads side 🤣
 
If this is true that is really off from MTV, not telling her.
 

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