April 24, 2007 6:31 AM
TLC seeking families with 12 or more children
This appears to be the real deal. I have verified the information with the producer of the show - see his response here.
[Please note: since I posted this, Angie brought up a question about whether or not it is legitimate - a concern since they are asking for so much information to be sent to a yahoo address. I have done a search, and though I've found this notice posted in many places, I cannot verify that it is legitimate. I have written to the address to ask for more information. Until it is forthcoming, I would suggest not responding to this blind. Also, if you've linked to or posted this somewhere else, please add a warning. I will post when I am confident there is no potential harm]
Seeking Families for TLC¹s ³Kids by the Dozen²TLC's television series "Kids by the Dozen" is seeking families with 12 or more children (at least 10 still living at home) to be featured in a new batch of shows. This new casting follows the success of three episodes profiling 12+ kid-families that aired earlier this year.
³Kids by the Dozen² is a rare and inspiring glimpse into how large families live, love, grow, and thrive. Most of all, the program documents the day-to-day ³operations² (parenting) that goes into surprisingly organized and stable large families.
SEEKING:
- Families with 12 or more children (twins or other multiples welcome)of any race, ethnicity, religion or creed.
- At least 10 children must still live at home.
- Families with colorful personalities and strong opinions, values, principles and traditions.
- Parents with interesting and unusual stories of their relationship and parenting techniques.TO BE CONSIDERED PLEASE EMAIL THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
1 - Your family name (including each parent¹s name), phone number & occupation(s).
2 - Number of children, your children¹s names, ages, and sex.
3 - The city or town your family currently lives in.
4 - The city or town any older children live in.
5 - A recent photo of your family together.
6 - A brief summary of your family story and why your family makes a good candidate for the program.EMAIL US AT: kidsbythedozen2@yahoo.com
Amy the Humble Muser (who's been desperately ill with her sixth pregnancy, but has just started posting again - hooray! and keep praying for her) sent me this. Unfortunately, since we only have 6 still at home (8 when Ben and Zach are here for the summer), we don't qualify. I say unfortunately because it sounds like this is a respectful and thoughtful attempt to see what makes big families tick.
If you apply and are on, please let us know!
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I've seen two of those programs, and really enjoyed them. The programs are respectful and thoughtful, like you said, and each I saw centered around a project the family were seeing to completion (probably to give the show boundaries:). One family had one birthday party for all the children planned they wanted to keep under budget, and the other was about a community baseball tournament, where the mega family comprised most of one of the teams, of course. :) If my family qualified, I would sign up, but we aren't there yet... I hope to see more of the programs- I can learn so much from families like this.
Posted by: Valerie | April 24, 2007 11:18 AM
Barbara,
Just a quick question....does this seem legit? It's a yahoo email address (anyone could set it up) and the information they ask for is very personal - phone numbers, kids names and ages,
city, family photo etc. I forwarded this to our homeschool group here without really checking it out and wanted to see what you knew.
Thanks.
Angie
Posted by: Angie | April 24, 2007 12:41 PM
Here is some additional info attached to this announcement elsewhere:
Christopher Gidez
Producer
Powderhouse Productions
cgidez@powderhouse.net
www.powderhouse.net
Perhaps an email to him would give you more results?
Posted by: Leslie | April 24, 2007 3:46 PM
I did a search on TLC's site of the word "casting", and found a half-dozen articles for casting of various shows on TLC and Discovery Channel. NONE of them were for the Kids by the Dozen show. I would venture a guess that this is not legit.
Posted by: Gem | April 24, 2007 8:07 PM
