Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: What’s your damage, Kim?
Welcome to Plathville spoilers finds that, last night, Mama Plath, AKA, Kim, got kind of heated with Moriah over the fact that Moriah is growing away from her. Kim, for someone who has raised three other teenagers before Moriah, sure seems to be reluctant to let Moriah adopt any of the standard teenage habits. Like listening to secular music or wanting to go to college. It’s one thing to not have the money to go and that could be one of the reasons that Kim is discouraging it, with 9 kids maybe she and Barry feel like just the favorites should go to college and Moriah doesn’t really fall into that category. But that’s a far-fetched, awful notion so let’s pretend that I’m wrong about that.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Kim doesn’t want Moriah to become wordly
Kim has said that college, in her opinion, while necessary, is only good for one thing and that is going out and drinking and partying. There’s ways to prevent becoming worldly, Kim. If you just want Moriah to stick to learning and nothing else then she could always go online to school. I know, a lot of people are just going to shout me down right now but its what I did. Then again, I had a completely different experience with homeschooling than Moriah did, I cannot imagine how pent up she must feel. It’s one thing to be homeschooled, it’s another to be shielded from the world on an almost unhealthy level.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Kim’s offended because Moriah rejects her lifestyle
As far as we know, Kim’s only other experience raising a daughter was perfect Hosanna Plath, who sang with the family band, met her husband at a gospel convention, then moved off to Ohio and got married when she was 20. I think this is probably the lifestyle that Kim wanted Moriah to desire, rather than what Moriah actually wants. Moriah wants more of a stereotypical teenage lifestyle. She wants to shop, she wants to listen to wild music, she wants to get acquainted with her peers. She doesn’t want to go out and settle down immediately, and why should she? Almost no one does that anymore. It’s never addressed why she’s ‘rebelled’ against her upbringing so much, but one has to wonder…
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: What actually happened before the camera started rolling?
What did Moriah see in her formative years that made her not want to pursue this lifestyle for herself? Was it just the lack of the outside world, or did she see something much darker at play? We’ve never actually gotten Hosanna Plath’s side of the story and Moriah herself has said that Hosanna was the “perfect” daughter, followed closely in line by Lydia Plath, the sister who is one year younger than her and the one we most often see her with. Moriah was pretty tight-lipped with her Mom about everything when her Mom tried to “communicate” with her, but one wonders if she maybe feels that Hosanna was talked into being the “perfect” daughter by their Mother and embracing the lifestyle because they forced it upon her, instead of getting to take that scholarship for music college like, let’s face it, any other teenage girl would have done.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Don’t fence her in, Mama!
Kim kind of incriminated herself in the very beginning in episode one when she said she thought Hosanna was happier just living life rather than sitting at a desk and learning ‘head knowledge’. But then… Hosanna herself has not made any commentary. In spite of us seeing her for maybe 2 seconds in the pilot episode but then she fled the scene and hasn’t been seen since. Maybe Moriah feels like her Mom talked Hosanna into embracing a lifestyle that she wasn’t too sure about that and maybe now Hosanna feels like she can’t escape. Who knows what has been said between sisters? But getting back to Moriah, it looks like she doesn’t want to be talked into whatever lifestyle Mama Plath had planned out for her.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: What does that look like, Kim?
So that begs the question, what exactly did Mama Plath have in mind for Moriah? Since the oldest two were out and married by the age of 21, one can only guess that Kim was going to use the same blueprint for Moriah. Obviously she’s not too keen on her dating right now because she is just 16 years old (even though that’s really old enough) but it looks like Kim wanted the same sort of ‘courtship’ for her daughters that she had with Barry. In some conservative christian circles that’s called “a match” and while no one is exactly forced into a marriage, these recommendations are usually highly recommended by parents and sometimes even clergy. It’s a very old-fashioned way of doing things and Modern Moriah doesn’t seem like she would be down for that.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Having a plan
But getting back to the college thing, Kim does have a point with having a plan when you start out to go to college. That’s a good, solid thing to have and in the end will save you a lot of money. However, and I don’t know when Kim went to college but, usually the average college student changes their major about 3 times over the course of their educational career. Or at least they did when I was in college, which wasn’t that long ago. I changed mine three times! So starting off with a plan is good but sticking to said plan may not be all that feasible in the long run. Also, it’s not like Moriah said she wanted to move to a totally different state and never see them again! She was looking at local schools to go to in order to get her education and she was going to come back home from time to time so it’s not like Kim would never see her again. I really don’t know what the problem is.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: The ‘drinking and partying scenario’
Okay yeah, college gets a really, really bad rap for this. But there are certain colleges, usually conservative christian colleges, that don’t allow after hours partying and drinking. Now, a lot of times their degrees and accredidation are a bit questionable and a friend of mine who went to one said that her degree wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on but I’m pretty sure that’s not all christian universities. Either way, if Kim is so worried about her daughter getting tolled off to drink and party and do other, shall we say, unbecoming, things then she needs to worry less about her actually doing them and worry more about educating her of the consequences. I’m not talking about some sob story about how she herself was miserable in college, I’m talking about statistics. Actual, cold hard facts, numbers, with text book (non-biblical) proof of negative consequences that no one wants to happen. Give her reasons why she should protect herself, not reasons to wonder why you think a certain way.
Welcome to Plathville Spoilers: Let her live!
What I find really sad is that Moriah hinted that there was something she wanted to do with her life, but her Mom made her feel so attacked that she didn’t even venture to share what that was. You shouldn’t judge your kids so much that they feel uncomfortable sharing their dreams with you. You should encourage your child’s dreams, even if they seem a little far-fetched at first, because dreams can change. The thing is… it’s not Kim’s dream anymore, it’s not Kim’s life, it’s Moriah’s. I just hope that she gets to live it.
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