Ok, so I admit, I've never seen an episode of 'Kate Plus 8'. Frankly, I'd rather watch my nail polish drying. The mere idea of a woman with eight children gives me heart palpitations. Still, if you have them, for Pete's sake, take good care of them or at the least, enlist some help to keep them safe.
This is where coupon cutting Kate Gosselin falls down. When doing the school run recently, the reality TV star's blind spot got her into trouble with a child safety group which accused her of being negligent.
While Gosselin sat in the driver's seat waiting for her troupe to board, her seven-year-old son Collin managed to crawl under the minivan undetected. Gosselin could quite easily have started the engine and driven off with her son's head directly beneath the front wheel.
Luckily Collin slithered out from under the car unharmed.
Still, Janette Fennell, president of KidsAndCars.org, was less than impressed with Gosselin and the what-could-have-beens of the situation.
"She is blessed she didn't run him over," said Fennell. "She should have gotten out of the car to supervise them, especially when you have that many children."
Clearly Gosselin needs to grow more eyes on the back of her head. Or maybe the film crew could come back 24/7, to help supervise. Then again, maybe she could hire Supernanny Jo Frost to shadow Gosselin and her brood. Now there's a reality show in the making. You heard it here first, yummies.
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