Minicap: Eden’s World

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   Closet Fan
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 11:23 am

   Thanks PennyDreadful for getting this mini up so fast. I was so confused by the end of last nights show. Heather is her manager and Andrew is her publicist. Yet Andrew set up a meeting with another person that would basically do the same job as Heather. That makes no sense and tells me that they are having a really hard time getting face time with important people in the business and they were looking to fill up time. Mickie, I think thou protest too much! The agency woman struck a huge nerve and I honestly thought that Mickie’s head was going to completely spin around. If your child can read and someone says that they can’t you politely correct them and move on. You don’t get all offended and lose your shit. I really didn’t know what to believe until Eden said that she could not read. I know that 7 year olds vary in their abilities. Some are strong readers, some are average and some are taking longer than their peers to get to the level that everyone else is on. But Eden said that she can’t read and I believe her. I hope someone from her school district is watching this show.
   What is the deal with the head shots? It drives me crazy that the E-team feels as though they do not have to follow the rules for auditions like everyone else.
   And Fran screaming about her space. That woman has some serious issues and she just plain sucks at hair and make up. What in the world does she have on Mickie that she is a part of this team?
   Eden needs to go to school, get some singing and acting lessons and some decent head shots.

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   ash1
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm

   Just started watching this ep and what. the. fuck. She can’t READ??? Like, at ALL?????? Okay, it was all fun and games when mom was just delusional and batshit crazy…oh, and drunk. But, what the hell is up with a kid that age not reading? Before the sanctimommies chime in, I think we all know that this is not a learning disability/ autism spectrum issue. This is one lazy fucking mother. Usually kids who are out of school for “work” read above grade level because they get so much one-on-one attention. I’d be very surprised if Micki even reads a book to this child at night. Wait, wasn’t she a teacher at one point…granted, in Arkansas, but still… how can a parent value education so little? This is beyond me. Calling out that lady for “offending” Eden, YOU should be offended, and reported to your school district. This is not homeschooling, it’s just stripper training. So, now, when Eden finally grows up and realizes that she just doesn’t have the skills to be an actress/dancer, she won’t even be able to Plan B it to community college, because she CAN’T READ!!!!!!

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   Pat Ledoux
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 12:56 pm

   Eden can’t read and her mother is a teacher? For shame Mickie, for shame. Perhaps instead of pimping her around the country, she should, I don’t know, be in school? My little 3 year old grandson can read and also knows his states- Suck on that Mickie. Franslovenly is the freakin worst hairdresser in the world. What the hell is she doing on Eden’s Team? Hanger on, that’s what. Let me do shitty hair and be on tv and people will love me- NOT! My jaw dropped when Mickie was offended, what a tool. Face it lady, your daughter is cute, that’s about it. She can’t dance, can’t sing, what do she do???? Poor Eden, what a messed up teenager she will be

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   ash1
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 1:14 pm

   I went back and saw that Micki was actually a drama teacher! I’d like to believe that “Micki Wood” is a character that she created, and that this has all been one big acting experince. At some point, she’ll show up dressed her age, sans fuschia eye shadow, with a subtle accent and tell us all how she fooled us all…a girl can dream!

   This ep made me sad, not just for the fact that Eden won’t ever graduate from high school, but because, she DOES have some natural ability in performing, and I so wish she had been adopted by some intelligent, quirky, starving artists and raised in Greenwich Village. She might actually have been good if she’d been taught some skills instead of just “how to act famous.” Sadly, we’ll never know.

   I liked the family featured here, terribly nice and normal. The audition seemed like it was for an “industrial” that no one will ever see, but Micki will be marketing it like it’s from Universal. These ladies probably just wanted the cameras. Hell, two minutes on Logo will net more viewers than will see this “film” in the history of time…

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   talk it then
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 1:27 pm

   This drunk ass woman could careless about her child or her education!! The little girl cant read?? At age 7.. are you kidding me? WTH is really going on? She is wanting to persue things further and she cant read? Well, we all know who this is REALLY about dont we … SPARKLEBAYBEE!!!! I am so glad I did not watch this trainwreck of a show.. I really saved myself from losing my lunch… LOL.. and that Cutabitch woman she looks like the type of person that rely’s on this foresaken show.. goodness knows she cant do a speck of hair and makeup.. Please Logo,, spare us.. take this show off the air!!

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   StageMom
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 4:04 pm

   I wound up watching an episode of “Don’t be tardy to the wedding” and I realized that being a train wreck reality tv star is now a career aspiration. Eden doesn’t need to know how to read or write, she can continue to be a train wreck and make enough money to get by.

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   ash1
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 5:28 pm

   I loved how when Franstupidname was yelling at skinny mom that she “needed some space around me,” the awesome camera crew clipped a shot of her enormous ass…Hells yes, you do! And put some back-up lights on that bad boy, will ya?

   Fran is sooooo pissed that her kid’s not allowed any airtime she can hardly see straight. “You can’t fire me bitches, I have an 8 episode contract! And I’m going to make it the 8 worst days of your life.”

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   J-Nut
   Posted May 15, 2012 at 9:48 pm

   “Franslovenly” – LOL!

   I hate that woman.

   I think I hate Shparkle Baybeee even more, for not ensuring that her daughter learns the basics, like reading. Unfuckingbelievable that Micki *retired* as a teacher. The Arkansas Dept of Education should sue her dumb butt for reflecting so badly on the state’s educational system. With teachers like Shparkle Baybeee, no wonder people like the Duggars home-school.

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   LoyalViewer
   Posted May 16, 2012 at 3:56 am

   Mickey has claimed for years that she homeschools Eden, but it would appear that little, if any, homeschooling is getting done. And if she IS providing her with an education and Eden still can’t read, it’s time for some testing to see if she has any learning disabilities. Mickey herself is a poor example of the Arkansas education system; I have read several posts by her that are full of spelling, grammatical, and syntax errors, and all you have to do it listen to her speak for two minutes to realize that she’s the last person who should be teaching ANYONE how to read! I don’t know about in the USA, but up here in Canada the people who are homeschooling their kids have to test them and send in results to make sure the kids are keeping up!

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    snowshoecat
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 4:16 am

    LoyalV, tests? In Arkansas? *giggles uncontrollably*

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    gun kata
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 5:38 am

    Micki, copy this: teach child to read and paste it into the search box on google, bing, or yahoo. Some of the places that come up offer free reading lessons online.

    After Eden learns to read (or re-learns, if that is the case), you will need to get her storybooks so she can practice every day. Be sure to buy books that are written for her reading level as it should improve. It may improve very quickly, if you are lucky.

    Then you will need to move on to teaching her how to write and do math. She will also need to learn about the world and its history. She is two years behind, but she seems clever. Good luck and please do not fail to do this for her. When she is taking care of you in your old age, she will need to be able to read the medicine bottles.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:34 am

    Gunny, that is excellent advice, but I think I can offer better advice. Schparkle, pull Eden out of that travesty of a paean to your ego and put her in school. If the public school system in Arkansas does not have the resources to get her up to grade level, invest some of that money you are making off of her and place her in a private school. Either one is far better than what she is getting now.

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    confusedinCanada
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:37 am

    Sweet Jesus, I was able to read at 3, how in this day and age can a child not read. I knew they were from a small town in the South but I thought they would have caught up with the rest of the country. Drama teacher be damned, that’s not even a real teacher.

    My mom used to tell me when I was little other kids would want candy and toys, all I wanted was a book and then she would have to read it to me 8 or 9 times until she decided to start teaching me how to read and the alphabet so I could do it myself.

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    talk it then
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 7:36 am

    The dumbass is in denial.. meaning Sparklebaybee!! She dont have much education herself let alone her 7 yr old daughter that CANNOT READ.. She doesn’t want to put her back in public school.. doing this would only down grade her even more. She is a really cute little girl, BUT hate to say it but she has NO TALENT, NO EDUCATION, & NO DESIRE to do anything. WAKEUP Mickie (sparklebaybee) get that girl in school.. she is dumber than a box of rocks! Its not her fault.. I actually feel sorry for her. You are the idiot that needs her ass kicked. How in the hell do you think she is going to survive in the world or get a hollywood job making your ugly ass any money if she cannot read.. This bitch is crazy and is ONLY looking out for herself!! Where is child services!!

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    HappyMom
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 8:14 am

    I should just clarify that my earlier comment meant to insult to anyone who might live in Arkansas. Having never even been there, let alone lived there, I cannot comment on the education system in that state. What I meant was that if Mickey is making it public knowledge that (a) she used to teach in the system and (b) she is bragging that she is homeschooling Eden, who is illiterate at age 7, then she is not being a good advertisement for Arkansas schools! I just wanted to get that out there because I wouldn’t want someone to misread my intention and be offended.

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    merry
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 8:17 am

    Sad as it is, I’m not surprised Eden can’t read. Neither can many adults. However, if Mickie (A TEACHER, who presumably went to college herself) isn’t ashamed of this, she really must be a lush.

    Then again, since she seems obsessed with raising the next Paris Hilton / Kim Kardashian / Anna-Nicole Smith perhaps she decided literacy and acting lessons would be unnecessary. (Actually, I always felt bad for Anna-Nicole and I fear Eden will turn out just like her: maybe very kind and sweet, but totally uneducated, unskilled, and horribly exploited.)

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    crankyguy
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 8:22 am

    LoyalViewer, it may be true that Mickie don’t talk Canadian good, but she talks Arkansasian good — real good.

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    Jazzy
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 8:23 am

    @Confused – that is exactly like my older daughter. She LOVED books as a little girl and learned to read by age 4. She still loves to curl up with a book or her Kindle. My younger daughter wasn’t reading that early, but she was a good reader by the end of kindergarten. Poor Eden – she’s 7 so she should be in 1st grade going into 2nd in the fall. I didn’t watch this epi so I hope she was exaggerating and means she doesn’t read well. If she can’t read AT ALL then they have some major work to do. The older she gets, the harder it will be to learn. I guess she really only has one option in her future – reality TV star or has-been. Sigh

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    crankyguy
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 8:29 am

    “. . . she [Mickie] is not being a good advertisement for Arkansas schools!”

    When I went to public school, I could point out many teachers, maybe 20% of the total, who were not good advertisements for public education. They were stupid and incompetent, and even the kids knew it. Mickie, from what I have seen, is really not a good advertisement for the human race.

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    gun kata
    Posted May 16, 2012 at 10:38 am

    I doubt Eden will get to go back to school any time soon. But, that is no excuse for her not knowing how to read. I think Micki, being out of state as much as she is, has been able to avoid testing. I don’t know about Arkansas, but in Tennessee parents who home school must take their children to be tested at certain intervals to ensure they are on track for their age. Or that is how it was a few years ago when I knew someone being home schooled. Of course, she was doing it due to medical issues rather than whatever sparklebaybee’s reasons might be. She is now in regular school, no problem.

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    Sparkle McSnarkle
    Posted May 17, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Isn’t it pretty common these days for kids to be reading when they enter first grade? I know both of my sons were reading by the end of kidnergarden. If Eden went to school she’d be in first or second grade. Shame on her mother. Poor Eden, she’s a true hollywood story in the making.

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    Khakie
    Posted May 17, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    So for the sake of humanity I hope this show doesnt get a second season but I will miss reading the recaps

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    Bel
    Posted May 17, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    I teach 6 year olds and every single one of them would be able to read a couple of simple lines of dialogue. They may need a little help to sound out some of the harder words, but they would be able to give it a pretty good shot. The majority of my class are reading above their chronological age, but even the couple who are not at expectation would never announce “I can’t read”. They all know that they can read and would be embarrassed if someone thought they couldn’t. They may not be fluent, but they CAN read. The way that Eden (quite proudly – which is even more concerning) announced that she couldn’t read, suggests that she actually can not read at all. Most little kids are so proud of learning to read that they would never say they couldn’t. Most of mine are so proud of themselves that they would be reluctant to even say that they weren’t very good readers.

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    ash1
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 12:51 am

    Okay, I’m having insomnia tonight and did a little snoopin’. Apparently, Heather has 3 daughters of her own, including a “Heaven” and an “Ireland” whom she calls I I. Doesn’t Micki call Eden E E? She also may ran for her state legislature, guessing she didn’t grand supreme… Ireland does pageants, so she must be on the “no upstaging Eden” list along with Dianely. Heaven has “acting headshots,” and oh, sweet Jesus….poor girl looks just like her mama only not as cute…bless her heart. 2 am here….fuck it… Ambien, it’s me and you, baby.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 5:07 am

    Bel, On a comment to another EW (oh my, how appropriate) recap I speculated that the show is a complete fake and at least partially scripted. The fact that a 7 year old would announce that she cannot read supports that. Reading is a source of pride for kids and it is instinctive to claim the ability whether or not the claim is valid, as it usually is. More and more preschoolers can read now.

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    LoyalViewer
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 8:27 am

    I don’t think the “I can’t read” was fake. Some people were on Eden’s facebook page blasting Mickey for the fact that she can’t read and she just removed the remarks. YOu would think she would have tried to put a spin on it (i.e., say that the words were too hard, Eden was joking, etc.).

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    talk it then
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 9:28 am

    Just to verify.. She cant read at all.. yes that was not FAKE when she said that.. Children do not lie and we all heard it out of her mouth. Mickie is in denial and dont want to admit that she has not taught that girl a damn thing. Very disturbed by this and cant believe she is actually thinking the girl is smart and that she is going to be successful.. Mickie get your head out of the clouds.. The girl cant speak, cant read, dance, write, SING or anything.. Is there still hope for her .. She is already so far behind!

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    snowshoecat
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Okay, okay. I concede. I was so hoping that the comment had been scripted, although now that I think about it…why?

    Unless there is a learning disability– or a homeschooling idiot for a parent– there is simply no reason a 7 year old cannot read.

    But I maintain that she should be taken OUT of that travesty and put INTO school.

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    talk it then
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    I read up on the state of Arkansas and it said they dont start making sure they are learning or have to test out until grade 3.. so she will have one more year after this next year and then sweet old Sparklebaybee will have to do something different. They will find out then how far she really is behind. What a freakin mess. Poor girl, has an uneducated classless fool as a mother and one that only cares for herself and no one else. So glad when this damn season of this show is over with.. I am so sick of them and Cutabitch.

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    gun kata
    Posted May 18, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    Talk It, thanks for checking up on Arkansas’s policies regarding home schooling.

    I think Mickey will push it just as long as she can. She is delusional.

    I was done with cutabitch the first episode when she upset that 12 year old. But, the four year old Audrey was truly pitiful around that evil non-hairdresser non-makeup artist.

    Mickey and Heather coach Eden like she’s still two. Hello, she is the same age as Mackenzie Ziegler on Dance Moms. If they want Eden to be able to do anything, she needs training and what she needs is far past their ability.

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    Veruca
    Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Since she is on a regular show, shouldn’t the tutoring requirement for child actors kick in? I mean, I understand it is a reality show, but given that it is a regular, weekly show that she presumably is getting paid to do, it should be being governed by certain rules… one of those rules being that she must have a minimum of 3 hours of tutoring every day (and no, her mother cannot be the tutor– it has to be someone independent). If this is not happening, how in the heck are they getting around the requirement?

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    TurtleGirl93
    Posted July 2, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    I know I’m late to this party but just in case anyone looks back over these comments….
    Please do not judge Arkansas or our schools based on these people. We’re not all MENSA candidates but we’re not ignorant hayseeds either. My uncle, who has a Ed.D., is a district superintendent, and my mother and 3 of my aunts, who hold a total of 7 Master’s Degrees and a Ph.D between them, have all taught in both the public and private systems. Additionally, my mother has taught ESL in Russia and South America. I promise you that they, like the majority of educators here, are nothing like Shparkle Babeee.
    We don’t all talk funny down here in Arkan-sauce but they’s that do make for good entertainments. I’m so proud for them.
    *stepping off my oratorial soapbox*

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    TurtleGirl93
    Posted July 2, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    *face palm*
    Typo alert! I meant my uncle has AN Ed.D.
    Oh Ambien, how you love to make a fool out of me(that’s my story and I’m sticking to it).