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You Can Live Without "The Mom Show"
The hosts, Catherine Marion and Laurie Gelman (wife of Regis and Kelly producer Michael Gelman) are chipper, upbeat women who are great viewing for the Toronto-area audience. However, they're style fails to translate outside the city, let alone the province.
Originally, the show was available and hosted by Catherine Marion in the Ottawa-area via Rogers Television also the starting venue to Tom Green.
The show's basis is to provide parenting information, tools and advice. But also tries to focus on marital relations and family dynamics as well. The problem is that the content is too thin, and is based on archaic stereotypes: the meddling mother in law, the unhelpful husband.
They veil this by having a "diverse" panel of mom's. However, Gelman and Marion barely let the mothers get a word in, and the panel is diverse in skin tone only, not in opinion.
The show also tries to seem contemporary with risqué features like: "how to pole dance". Thusly, it's not safe to watch with your children around.
Considering I'm the target audience Ontario resident, new & expecting mother I'm surprised at how overall useless this show is. Surviving Motherhood is a far better tool, as the panel of moms expresses their own opinions, and then they go to tape of an expert's opinion. But it is America-centric.
The Mom Show also shuttles the kids off into another room, with a Nanny who's largely ignored, and at times, seems to be treated with disrespect. The doctor and psychologist can best be described as ineffective, since they to use generalizations that don't apply to most families.
If you find women's magazines useful, you'll like this show. If, you're like me, and find the majority of women's magazines are idiotic, you'll hate this program. I recommend reading "Today's Parent", or participating in their forums instead. So far, it remains the best information source for Canadians.
Originally, the show was available and hosted by Catherine Marion in the Ottawa-area via Rogers Television also the starting venue to Tom Green.
The show's basis is to provide parenting information, tools and advice. But also tries to focus on marital relations and family dynamics as well. The problem is that the content is too thin, and is based on archaic stereotypes: the meddling mother in law, the unhelpful husband.
They veil this by having a "diverse" panel of mom's. However, Gelman and Marion barely let the mothers get a word in, and the panel is diverse in skin tone only, not in opinion.
The show also tries to seem contemporary with risqué features like: "how to pole dance". Thusly, it's not safe to watch with your children around.
Considering I'm the target audience Ontario resident, new & expecting mother I'm surprised at how overall useless this show is. Surviving Motherhood is a far better tool, as the panel of moms expresses their own opinions, and then they go to tape of an expert's opinion. But it is America-centric.
The Mom Show also shuttles the kids off into another room, with a Nanny who's largely ignored, and at times, seems to be treated with disrespect. The doctor and psychologist can best be described as ineffective, since they to use generalizations that don't apply to most families.
If you find women's magazines useful, you'll like this show. If, you're like me, and find the majority of women's magazines are idiotic, you'll hate this program. I recommend reading "Today's Parent", or participating in their forums instead. So far, it remains the best information source for Canadians.
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