Jezebel: baby borrowers

The Baby Borrowers: Sometimes Little Girls Are Less Sugar, More Spice

Tracie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Last night on The Baby Borrowers, the teen parents were given their new assignment: Preteens! (There should be like scary, dun, dun, dun music after that.) They weren't so much preteens as just like, actual kids. But there was one little girl, in particular, named Hannah, who was a hellion. She screamed, she was insolent, she was violent toward her little sister, she was mean to her teen parents, and she was overall, kind of demonic. Interestingly, her antics led to a discussion as to which gender is more difficult to raise: wild, energetic, destructive boys or dramatic, back-talking, attitude-having little girls. Clip above.

Teen Parent Does A Crap Job

Tracie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT

On last night's Baby Borrowers, the teens traded in their babies for toilet-training toddlers, which proved to be an even bigger challenge. Morgan, the chillaxed SoCal girl, didn't seem to be too stressed about it, even though she made some pretty big errors in childrearing. When her toddler pooped himself, she first let him roll around on her neighbors' couch with just the diaper on until they complained. Then she dragged the kid by the arm across the floor. When she changed his diaper, she didn't even wipe the crap off him, she just put a fresh diaper on. Poor baby probably got a wicked rash from that. The interesting thing about last night's episode is that most of the teen parents were fighting over who would get to work and who would have to stay home with the children that week. Almost all of them wanted to work outside the home, proving just how hard, valid, and important stay-at-home parenting really is. Clip above.

Teen Mom Tries To Quit Baby Borrowers 24 Hours Into Taping

Tracie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Baby Borrowers is only in its second episode, and one of the girls — Kelsey, the one who was the most gung ho about wanting to have kids immediately — has already learned her lesson. As seen last night, Kelsey began freaking out and crying about being left alone with the baby, so her boyfriend had to stay home with her so he could care for the child. The show's producers asked the baby's real mother to give Kelsey a talk, and she convinced the teen to keep on trying, in large part because she too was once a teen mother. (Um, isn't that negating the entire point of this experiment?) Clip above.

Baby Borrowers Proves That Teens Are Big Babies Themselves

Tracie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Last night was the premiere of the highly anticipated (well, at least by us) reality show "experiment" Baby Borrowers, where a group of teenage couples, who feel that they're ready to start families get to act out the "fantasies." For each episode, they will be raising a family at different stages, through faux pregnancies, caring for infants, toddlers, groups of kids, groups of kids with pets, teens and finally the elderly. It's all super timely considering that whole Gloucester pregnancy pact going on right now. Unsurprisingly, halfway through the first episode, one girl breaks down before the experiment even really begins, proving just how emotionally unready these kids really are. Clip above.