Dr. Keith - have you ever seen this show? I can't believe you had these women on your show and did not discuss their antics with them. Their families are in shambles. They could have used your advice on how to be better parents, partners and people. I respect your opinions and feel you lowered your standards by how these people were portrayed on your show. Why don't you watch their show and have them back on and next time be more candid? They could really use your help, not your approval on their bad behavior.

Dear Dr. Ablow,
I was saddened to see the way you responded to the two blondes who sat in the middle two chairs during the interviews. I believe they both do insurance. I couldn't believe the way your voiced and facial expression changed while you spoke to these two women in particular. You transformed into a "school-aged boy". I am a former teacher and believe me you fit into the middle school boy personality perfectly. You took the show in the opposite direction than I thought you were going to go. This show doesn't promote the type of lifestyle that you usually support. In the past, you have tried to get your guest to see what is really important morally and emotionally within a family. These women, in my opinion, don't portray that. I am sorry that I had to see you interview those guests. At the end of the show you had your arms around the waist of these two women that I have been speaking of. I wonder if you would have had your arms around them if they had been less beautiful. Think about it. What did you really value in them. I wonder.

Dear Dr. Ablow:

Since you are an advocate for children and their emotional well-being, I want to voice my deep concern how your recent broadcast of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" overlooked, or perhaps is unaware how these 4, once 5, dysfunctional and vain women, for the sake of thier own self-serving agendas, have little, if any, concern how this show is affecting thier already disturbed and hurting children that are in desparate need for intervention, especially the son of Lauri Waring. For these women to subject their own under-age children to overt adult sexual promiscuity, to the point the women relish in the attention received by their friends under age sons, referred to on the show as MILF's, blatant alcoholism, discrimination toward hard working blue collar jobs, etc, is incomprehensible. If you watched any part of season one, I wonder if you would have promoted their new show since it follows the lives of clearly dysfunctional and extremely vain adults at the price of thier own children's futures and well-being. Some have opened the wounds of thier hurting children who have issues that have not been dealt with, to air for the entire world to see and scrutinize. What parent in their right mind would risk furhter emotional damage to their already hurting child. I know this to be true since I am the grandmother to 4 of these children who are the newcomers to the show and am appalled how thier father would allow, what I describe as a heinous crime against his own children just so he can continue to feed his narcossistic need for the adulation he thrives on. I am deeply concerned how this show will further effect my grandchildren.

Respectfully,

Regarding the "Real Housewives of the OC", two of them run an insurance business. I have a strong curiosity what sort of insurance they sell; commercial insurance/property and casualty, life & health, is it to businesses or to individuals? I'm a widow with 2 children in the same business in Houston, TX, but struggling. They seem to be doing well. I was inspired by their struggle and hard work.

I am a stay at home mom of 3 1/2 twin girls. Life as I thought I knew it would be is harded that I ever thought. One of my daughters had brain surgery when she was 8 months old. She was diagnosed with Infantile Spasms a very rare form of epilepsy. This was a life saving operation, at the same time a life theatening operation. She had to have the right side of her brain disconnected from the left to keep the seizures from crossing to the good part of her brain which is the left. The right was soo damaged in uter. Our stuggles of helping recover and maintaining plus raising her very typical and very healthy sister has been the most overwhelming experience I have ever known. Our "special" daughter needs round the clock care. At 3 1/2, she is unable to walk, talk or eat by mouth. She is congnitivly delayed and is like a 1 year old. It is soo hard and depressing to see her struggle every day and then overjoyed to see my typical daughter blossom. I am not only incharge of raising the girls, but I have to constantly balance all of our "special" daughters therapies, weekly doctors appointments,therapies, schools, the housework, and the fianances. Nothing here is or can be routine.... even though we try our hardest to maintain some kind of routine and balance. My husband and I have not had a date night since June of 2006 and our finances are suffering tremendously because we are a 1 income family and in jepordy of loosing our home. My "special" daughter can not communicate so when something is wrong and she is fussying and crying and unconsolable...it is constantly a guessing game. Is it teething, is it gas, is it again an earache, is she backed up or is she hurt somewhere. Is she just overtired or is she sick?? Does she need to go to urgernt care or the er again or do we wait to see her doctor?? She does not sleep much at night and will not take naps during the day. She truly is like having 4 jobs in one. My husband works 12 to 14 hours days 6 days a week and that barely keeps us afloat. It is hard for me to have symphaty for some people when they are frustrated with just their one child. I am sorry. Maybe I just wish I could relate. My "special" daughter will always be "special" I have excepted that. It is just heart breaking that she may not have the same life as her sister. I think of life later on and who will be there for her. I hope and pray her sister will be. I have raised our typical daughter to be loving, honest, respectful and to love her sister no matter what. I hope it stays with her forever. That is our life and I hope things will finally start to look up this year for us.

Dr. Keith, thank you for reminding me why I don't watch tv...other than you of course.

(Wink)

Kess