The father of Dayton and Morgan’s kid paid them a visit and gave them some great advice on soothing and calming a baby. He admitted that it’s difficult but that they have to relax themselves in order to help a baby relax.

The last parental visit of the night was to Kelsey and Shaun who apparently forgot they had a child to take care of and had not changed, bathed or properly fed their baby prior to bed time. When Shaun suggested they just put the baby in the other room because she was crying, the onlooking mother looked ready to snap. You can’t blame her.

That’s it for this week, folks. I need to digest this episode before I decide whether I’ll tune in next week. While I think it’s great that these kids are getting a true taste of parenthood and learning what’s really involved, it irritates me to watch the choices and attitude of some of the contestants.

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Baby Borrowers – live review 3

Alicea and her boyfriend were next with Shaun and Kelsey as the third couple to get their child. Shaun looked terrified. Dayton and Morgan were up next, followed by Austin and Kelly last.

The first person to really irk me due to their treatment of a child was Alicea. She gave up feeding the child because she was too frustrated and swore at the kid. The onlooking parents (via video cam) decided to step in and help her / the baby and instructed her how she should be feeding. Alicea immediately got her back up and began getting snippy and defensive with the mother.  I don’t know how the mother didn’t just take her child and leave.

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Baby Borrowers – live review 2

I barely made it through the intro without thinking these contestants were not going to fare well.  I gave it a chance, though. Within a few minutes the first absolute mess of the show stepped up and showed her true colors.  When contestant Kelley had to wear a pregnancy suit to simulate pregnant weight gain (as did every other female contestant) and boyfriend Austin giggled, she broke down crying and yelling at him. She then refused to leave the house an attend parenting classes like everyone else.

To Austin’s credit he went to the parenting class on his own. Upon his return, Kelley proceeded to act even crazier. If my kid were slated to end up with her for a few days, I would run screaming. Kelly, don’t have kids for a very, very, very long time.

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Baby Borrowers – live review 1

NBC’s upcoming reality series “The Baby Borrowers” is an intriguing new social experiment based on the hit British program that asks five diverse teenage couples — ages 18-20 — to fast-track to adulthood by setting up a home, getting a job and becoming caring parents first to babies, toddlers, pre-teens and their pets, teenagers and senior citizens — all over the course of three weeks.

I’m definitely interested to see this show and find it an interesting premise. You never know who will step up to the challenge of parenting well and who will get totally overwhelmed, adult or teen. The show “Baby Borrowers” premiers June 25th on NBC.

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Baby Borrowers on NBC