 This is a great show! I watched the original concept, which was his Super Size Me movie about 30 days on McDonalds. One of the best ones I saw later was the one with the couple on minimum wage. Man it is hard to live that way! Especially when you don't have a car, have no savings, no furnishings for your apartment already bought and stored away, etc. That show should be a wakeup call to young people today, older teenagers to be exact. Get a part time job, put away some money. Buy some things ahead of time. Purchase a car before you move out of your parents' house. If you can, try to find a job with some medical benefits, even if they aren't very good, because anything is better than nothing if you have an accident or get deathly ill. A segment on the show shows a job injury and a subsequent ER bill that the couple was nearly in tears over. With ins, it may have cost $150 or less.
I do have a suggestion=) For the lifetime career folks - I challenge you to 30 days as a full time parent, you can choose if you want to be single or include your spouse. While it doesn't necessarily mean you need to stay at home, it does mean you will be the primary caregiver for an infant, a toddler, a school age child, and a teenager. This means you are with them 24/7 - or any time they are not at school, activities they do in someone else's care without you, or with 'dad'. You are responsible for everything. You do not get to escape to work. You take care of housework, errands, cooking, shopping, taxi service, appts for the kids, school, homework, sports, other activities. You get to learn about diapers, terrible 2s, a 9 year old who thinks he's 15, and a 17 year old who wants your car and ten dollars. You praise the 2 year old for sitting on the potty and comfort the 17 year old when her boyfriend breaks up with her. At the end of 30 days, the kids on the show get to tell you how you did - in relation to how their moms do. While I realize there will be a learning curve, I'm sure this is doable. I don't think the person will fail. What I think they will find is that it is much harder than they thought initially, and also rewarding, in ways they never thought about.
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