Michelle Duggar is Passing On Some Precarious Parenting Lessons

When you really think about it, or even if you briefly consider it for .02 seconds, it’s pretty insane that Michelle Duggar is mother to 19 kids. Like, it’s been proven time and time again that she wasn’t the most well-equipped to run a household, and is, hmm, maybe a little less than qualified to give out parenting lessons. Like not for anything, but that would require actually being an active parent. So it’s scary to see the eldest Duggar sisters try to mimic Michelle when it comes to bringing up their children. And at this rate, it’s going to become a generational problem.

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Consider all the Duggar daughters that are already moms: Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joy-Anna, and most importantly, Jana, the person who actually raised the children on the compound and yet doesn’t have any of her own children yet. Despite Jana’s best efforts, though, the girls are becoming little Mini-Michelles in the same way that the boys are turning into Jim Bob clones.

And true, there are some habits that are admittedly partially passed down because of the parents love of the Gothard Principle, yet the Cult of Duggar definitely has some precarious teachings of its own. And Michelle, as the Mother Superior, is passing down some bad behaviors from generation to generation.

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Thanks to quick-to-multiple mother, the girls are taught to want as many children as “God will allow.”

So recap, the reason the Duggars have so many kids beyond that whole “quiverfull” value system is ’cause Michelle went on the pill after Josh, sadly miscarried her next child (named Caleb) and once she got pregnant again, the couple decided to let the Lord “bless them with as many children as he saw fit.”
And clearly, the girls have now adopted this mentality because if you ask them about children it’s nearly the same speech. Old Jilly Bean, the first Duggar girl to get pregnant and subsequently the first to announce her family plan.”Both of us want as many kids as God will give us and we’ve talked about adoption,” Jill told ABC News. “My parents have kept popping them out so we’ll see how [our] fertility is!”
Jessa also wants a big family, and is open to adoption…if that’s what the Lord wants. “We don’t know what the future holds, but as the Bible says, “Man plans his way, and God directs his steps,” she said to US Weekly. So we want to move forward with paperwork and a home study, and just be ready for however God opens those doors.
Jinger was a bit more subdued as a newlywed, although children were definitely part of the plan. “I think we’d love to start a family somewhere in that time period, in the next five years, and see what the Lord does.” Again, gotta get permission from the Big Guy first, and looks like it was a Thumbs Up now that Felicity Nicole was here.
As for Joy-Anna? She kept it classic: “We want as many as the Lord thinks we can handle, and we are putting it into his hands.” Is there any other way?

Unless you want to hit the ground running when it comes to marriage and popping out kids.

I will say (not to give them any credit, but factually speaking) that Michelle and Jim Bob waited about four years before having Josh. That still clocks Michelle at getting pregnant around 20 and giving birth at 21, which is by all accounts young. And so far, all of her older girls (well, most of her older girls) have gotten married and pregnant before they even hit 25. Joy-Anna couldn’t even get out of her teens before she ran down the aisle.

Michelle passed on fun, slightly dangerous tricks and tips when it comes to carrying your baby.

Case and point: Jill’s car seat hack. In a video, Jill revealed that if you combine a car seat and an umbrella stroller you can easily fit your kids in small places, to which I say, “What small places?” and “What are you talking about?” Sure enough, Jill revealed this was something her dear old mom taught her. Sigh.

The older girls have made their own Buddy Teams out of their younger siblings.

If you missed out on that chapter of the Duggars lives, the Duggar Buddy system was established in 2001 to ensure that Michelle didn’t have to raise her own children…I mean, have “help.” And these days, the girls have used their little kids to “help” them out. Like, I find it to be kind of a tragi-comedy that Jordyn-Grace and Jenni — who regard Jessa and Jill as their respective sister-moms — can be spotted carrying Spurgeon and Izzy, no matter how bad for their spine that could be. Is this payback? Laziness? Or just the way they were raised?

Despite the Stepford values they’re raised on, none of these women can cook. NONE.

That’s pretty remarkable in part because it seems like Michelle stopped cooking years ago and the girls kind of had to learn how to feed their enormous family. I guess it’s her Cream-of-Mushroom-rich cookbook that seems to live on through her children. It seems like every single day, Jill debuts a fresh, new, kind of scary recipe, including this horrifying excuse for a pot roast. Those carrots are so depressed that they’ve been in therapy for two years and have made zero progress.

And let’s not forget that the Duggar education system is still firmly in place.

That means the teachings of ATI are still hard at work…and there’s one person to thank for that. “My momma taught me the importance of instilling scripture into the hearts and minds of your young children,” Jill wrote on her personal blog. “I recently started teaching Israel some Bible verses and I was amazed at how quickly he picked up on them! Even when I was looking at homeschooling curriculum (yes, Israel just turned three but I’m just excited!).”
Well. Train them young.