Welcome to Plathville spoilers finds that last night we went from wanting to hug Mama Plath and totally respecting her to wanting to shake the living daylights out of her all within a span of 15 minutes! That takes quite a bit of talent from someone who isn’t reading from a script. Here’s why.
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I can respect the Plaths not raising their children up in gamer culture, with limited exposure to what pop culture has to offer. I can respect them wanting a happy and carefree life for their children. That is admirable. However what I do not get is their reluctance to let their children participate in any sort of secular music at all. These children have a talent and discouraging that talent in those venues is just going to make these children want to go down ‘that path’ (their words, not mine) even more.
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Looks like the first two children, Ethan and Hosanna did exactly as they were told and didn’t question much growing up so its safe to say that the Plaths got a little spoiled to that type of personality. But what they don’t tend to take into account is the fact that other kids are going to have different personalities and different needs and grow at different rates. Which is what seems to be happening. They can blame it on Olivia all they want but the fact of the matter is, later borns tend to be more rebellious than their elder siblings. It’s just a scientific fact.
All Isaac wanted to do is go play drums for the band that Ethan and Moriah seem to be creating. Moriah let her siblings (but not her parents, interestingly enough) listen to her decidedly secular original song. It reminded me of Taylor Swift’s early days and even Moriah said that she was a big fan of country music and would listen to it with the volume turned down on her headphones. I think it’s sweet that Moriah has such an innocent interest in music, it’s not about the boy bands or what she can wear to the club to rock out, it’s about the music itself and creative expression and secular or not you can’t get much more pure than that.
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They take on this air of moral superiority when it comes to anything secular. They tend to poopoo it as if it’s not that interesting or not as good as anything dedicated to God. All 16 year old girls, are going to like songs about love and romance, even if they’ve never experienced it themselves. There is literally nothing in the good book that says you can’t enjoy secular things, just that you can’t put them before God. Even God liked it when David played the harp, and it never expressly says whatever song David played was about God Himself, just that He liked the music. All that aside, the Plaths apparently do not want Isaac singing secular music – last time I checked guys, playing drums wasn’t singing.
The Plaths are headed down a rather dangerous road. In the name of keeping their children away from the world, they have not allowed anyone in their children’s world that believe differently from them. How do we know that? Because Moriah Plath herself stated it. The Plaths have never willingly welcomed an outsider with different beliefs into their family. I’m amazed that Ethan and Olivia even met because of how tightly they control the strings, but I’m glad they did. Ethan seems to be coming around, waking up, if you will. I worry for the younger ones though, because in the name of control, Mama and Papa Plath might just squash their attempts at rebellion.
Seriously though, what attempts at rebellion? If the Plath consider singing along to classic country a rebellion then I’d hate to see what they’d think if one of their children developed a k-pop obsession or worse yet, gangsta rap. (Man are they going to flip when they learn of Kanye’s new album… quick, roll the camera, I want to see that reaction!) What the Plaths consider horrendous rebellion isn’t even a thing by most modern day family standards. I get they want a different way of life but they’re downright unrealistic about some things. This being one of them.
Next week they will have pushed Ethan and Olivia so far to the brink that they’re going to consider moving away. This will probably have something to do with the fact that Ethan and Olivia can’t hang out with the other children unsupervised which I do not get at all. He’s not telling them sordid tales of how he and Olivia got plastered and painted the town red, he’s engaging his siblings in the most wholesome car vs mower race I’ve ever seen. He’s playing games with them outside in the yard like a big brother should. And he’s celebrating the little taste of freedom they all get when Mom and Dad leave by making them rootbeer floats! If that’s rebellion, sign me up! Hopefully Ethan and Olivia don’t move yet, but I guess we’ll all have to stay tuned!!!
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