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Pushing their lifestyle instead of their child


So Paleo/Exercise is gone. They were more interested in spending camera time pushing their lifestyle instead of letting Jaden study. Really it was his moment to live and they took it for their own. Same with all the other parents.

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Jaden's mom annoys me to no end.

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I agree with you. I think their Paleo bs only fits in when it serves the mother because they drink coffee like there is no tomarrow and pour it down Jaden's throat which is not at all healthy. It was very obvious that none of them (except dad) exercise, poor Jaden has no coordination and was clearly in pain when they were performing for the camera. I still think Jaden is a delight which is very impressive given he was raised by a mother who is clueless. If she truly cared for her son she would seek help for his speech issues.

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Omg they were unbearable. And that kid has no structure in his life. The real world is going to hit him like a ton of bricks.

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It also looks like the paleo lifestyle or maybe the diet pushed the kid into early puberty. He look like he was in the middle of puberty on the show. He didn't look very happy and it didn't appear that he was allowed to express a lot of his own opinions, he just had to go along with whatever his mom told him to do. Although she felt she was taking away all the boundaries, I think she was putting them there with all her weird ideas.

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He looked so much older than the rest of the kids in the competition. I wondered if the parents misrepresented his age to get him in so that they could advertise themselves for a reality tv show

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