Survivor

With my husband and I both being raised as only children I feel we were totally unprepared to raise 3 wild monkeys also referred to as our children. Aren’t there parenting classes that should be assigned to new parents on practical things like survival!!

I’m convinced that the next season of Survivor should be filmed in a small house with 3 toddlers. With weeks of blazing heat or snow so that the contestants have to keep the little darlings inside the whole time and “figure” out how to survive!

Strenuous challenges, biting bugs, and lack of sleep are no matches for the ever energetic antics of toddlers. In fact I believe the same “horrors” are a daily part of life as a parent.

Contestants would have to prepare meals for picky children with varying diet needs and desires, manage a laundry pile that resembles a large elephant herd that never decreases, play court jester to a tribe of children ready to throw you to the wolves, and educate the little angels so that they don’t fall behind once the school year begins. Feel free to squeeze some personal time in there as well…my slot is usually somewhere between 2 and 3 in the morning or when I am hiding out in the bathroom.

There would be no medics on site to help relieve the fatigue or act as a distraction. There are no opportunities to form alliances outside of your significant other since the natives will outnumber you 3 to 1. And of course any hope of being voted off the island is a mere 18 years away.

Yes, this would be a true version of Survivor. I know every parent in America would tune in just to laugh hysterically at the contestants and the daily “game” that is parenthood or at least be glad they weren’t involved….