Kate Gosselin Caught Hitting Her Daughter
On June 13 at about 11 am Kate Gosselin was caught on camera hitting her daughter. One of the sextuplets, Leah, began blowing a whistle when Kate demanded she stop because she was on the phone. Leah stopped for a moment, then blew the whistle again.
A witness said:
"Kate seemed to lose her temper."
Seemed?
Kate said:
"Did you not hear me?!"
An enraged Kate then stormed over to Leah, grabbed her, and hit her. A witness said:
“The girl was screaming and crying. Kate just pushed her away and walked off with her coffee. Her older sisters were trying to make Leah feel better.”
Kate had a lot of options, like walking a little further away in the yard where it was quieter, and the kids are still in her view. It seems Kate is one of those moms who thinks she is the queen, and the kids must obey and cater to her, or they pay the price, like when she wouldn’t give her daughter a drink of water, but got one for herself.
I personally don’t believe in spanking. Children only learn to fear an adult that hits them, and hitting isn’t an appropriate behavior in the adult world, in fact it’s called domestic violence. It’s better to teach children by example how to handle difficult situations, and help those children to learn more appropriate and considerate behavior, like not blowing a whistle when they see someone on the phone, but if the child insists the parent walks further away to solve the problem rather than resorting to force and violence.
Some are trying to blame the failure of Kate’s marriage to explain her bad behavior, but we know Kate doesn’t care about anyone except herself. Kate’s behavior is more likely the result of the show failing.
On the show’s May 25 premiere it pulled in 9.8 million viewers due to the allegations of cheating. More recent episodes had 5.5 and 6 millions viewers, two episodes ago there were 4.3 million viewers. The most recent episode brought in only 2.9 million viewers, despite TLC bringing on chef Emeril Lagasse, chef Duff from Ace of Cakes, and yesterday the crew from American Chopper.
It’s looking like Kate’s most prized possession, her show, will be cancelled soon as America has a sour taste in their mouth for a woman who is both a cold and mean wife, and a cold and mean mom.
The National Enquirer blames Kate’s kid spanking on alcohol. I’m not so sure I believe the story from the Enquirer until I see photo evidence, but here it is anyway:
Just last week, The ENQUIRER reported that pals of Jon, 32, were worried his drinking was out of control. Now the ex-staffer divulges Kate, 34, frequently turned to alcohol to ease the stress of caring for the couple’s 8-year-old twin daughters and 5-year-old sextuplets featured on the TLC reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8.
"By the end of the day after the kids were settled, Kate would drink a bottle of wine by herself. This happened several nights a week," said the source, who worked with the Gosselins for six months and quit at the end of summer 2008.
"Jon didn’t usually drink with her, and he didn’t seem pleased with it. He’d roll his eyes and tell Kate to put the wine down. She’d answer, ’Screw you. I’ll do what I want.’ Her frustration with the kids seemed to be taking a toll, and drinking was her outlet."
Kate was "short-fused and demanding," according to the source, and while off-camera, she often disciplined the children in a very harsh, sometimes even violent, manner.
"When one of the boys closed a door on another one once, Kate got in their faces and yelled, ’You tell me the truth about what happened!’" the source recalled.
"The children just stood there, terrified. Then she dragged one of the boys into the bathroom and spanked him five or six times with a large plastic mixing spoon.
"You could hear Kate forcefully whacking the child and the child screaming at the top of his lungs. People told me it happened more than once, but it was off-camera because Kate didn’t want it in the show."
The source also witnessed the growing closeness between Kate and her bodyguard, New Zealand native Steve Neild.
In a surprisingly intimate gesture, "Steve often put his hands on her hips to guide her. He didn’t have to touch her, but he always did, and Kate certainly didn’t object to it," the source revealed.
"Jon never said anything about it, but then, he never said much about anything."
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Well it’s true Jon should get the kids cause hes much nicer and he cooks good Chinese food ^^. He takes them shopping and Kate yells at them and mostly puts them in the corner for doing just 1 thing. So Kate should be embarrassed and not do that again cause she wouldn’t want everyone to know….. She’ll be sorry and She has got spanked before why would she do that to the kids? Leah and the Others are to young to get spanked.
Thanks for Reading!
I think that Kate is wrong!
Jon should get the kids!
Wow want a mom?
I thought she was my idol and now NO!
She should not put her hands on the kids!!!
Spanking should be out lawed after I heard about Kate!
Also Jon you should not even think about your self and about drinking you need to get your head together and get those kids!
You are not being a good father bye just seeing them and spending time with them you need to do MORE!!
Kate you should have not spanked Leah in public, because that just made you look horrible. What I have been hearing about you wopping them with a spoon when camera’s are off yah that is bad and you should stop so please you and Jon need to work this OUT!, it is not HEALTHY for the CHILDREN!!!
You both also need to focus on them more.
Jon stop drinking the night away when you can spen it with your children.!
And Kate stop talking on the phone when you could be spending every last momment with them.
You guys always used to say that people need to spend time with there children, and every last momment because you will never get it back!
What happened to that???
The only thing that I can say is, that if she wanted her life to be private, she shouldnt have made it so public.
Yeah let’s just “walk away” when our kids are being loud while on the phone. That’ll teach em to stop. I’d like to know how the kids act of the person that wrote this article. If they even have any. It’s usually the ones that don’t have kids that have all the advice in how to raise them. My daughter is the same age as the sextuplets…I see alot of my daughter in those kids. Once in awhile you need to give em a swat. Yes beating is wrong, but an actual spanking is not going to hurt them any. As for the drinking..last time I checked she was over 21. And there hasn’t been any evidence of that anyway. Leave them alone already!!!
i agree leave her alone… shes under enuff stress! if she wants to drink den let her.. if she wants to spank HER kids then let her..!
i love her and the kids well not maddy but i think yu should let them live there lives.! with out media and other ppl tellin there business!
I don’t see what is wrong with spanking. We spanked our 3 children, and they turned out great. They don’t do drugs, don’t drink, never been in jail, and they enjoy spending time with us. What is wrong with drinking a bottle of wine at night, I do it a lot of times. And why is everyone always bashing Kate, Jon let her walk all over him. He allowed the sitation get bad. He should have spoke up sooner. He has even admitted it.
Leave them alone! I get that some people think spanking is wrong but some people don’t believe that. It just isn’t fair. The kids can be very out of control and it can be very overwhelming. Just leave them alone!
I Kinda think that we should all just leave kate and jon alone those are there children and they should raise them there way. If they think spanking is a good ting then so let it be… and i think that ALL THE MEDIA AND NOSEY PEOPLE NEED TO KEEP THERE MINDS OFF OF THEM. People do not see the strain thats being put on all these kids becaus of there parents actions. All the attention is being put on the kids and thatsnot right.
EVERYBODY SHOULD LEAVE THEM ALONE. WHAT THEY DO AS A COUPLE OR SINGLE IS THERE BUSENESS NOTOURS. WE JUST WATCH THERE SHOW.
Its there lifes and they have enough problems to deal with in there life, they dont nee to have our thoughts to worry about either.
You grow up and learn that the disisions that you make are either good ones or bad ones. JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE AND LET THEM LIVE THERE LIVES AND CARE FORTHERE KIDS.
This world would be a lot better place if the know-it-all’s would keep their noses out of other people’s business. As for spanking, there is nothing wrong with it. When I was young, if I disobeyed my Father or Mother you best believe I received a butt whipping, I went on to complete a college degree and retire from the United States Military. Both my kids received spankings when they were young and both now are college grads and Military officers. Guess spanking does do a good job of keeping the kids in line, when talking fails.
I am going to say right now, people need to leave her alone. The world is so messed up because kids are being told to stop doing something and then they keep doing it knowing they are going to get away with it.
“It’s better to teach children by example how to handle difficult situations, and help those children to learn more appropriate and considerate behavior, like not blowing a whistle when they see someone on the phone, but if the child insists the parent walks further away to solve the problem rather than resorting to force and violence.
This is wrong. YOu walk away from it without doing anything how are they to learn!? We have some really stupid people in our world. The child will now learn to listen to the mother. There is a big diff from spanking and abuse. The world is full of war becauase parents tried to “TEACH” There kids wrong from right. I would have turned out a mess if my mom never spanked me for doing wrong. I would have just done them again knowing i would only had a talkin too. But spanking…heck no. I would stop after the first spank. I think she should keep her kids and people just leave her alone
The bible says “Spare the rod spoil the child”. There is a major difference in beating and spanking. I believe in spankings and I was spanked. I have three boys and one girl. Do you honestly think that when these kids become teenagers, “time out” is going to work. If they go to prison, it might! If The creator of all tell us not to spare the rod, then who are we to argue with Him?