My kids have been totally hooked on "The Great American Road Trip" reality TV show this summer. The Di Salvatore family from Yonkers have lived up to so many stereotypes of an Italian-American family from New York that all of us have been thoroughly entertained watching this show.
And my kids are rooting whole-heartedly for this family to win the final road challenge tonight, although I'm not sure they will.
The other family in the final challenge is the Cootes family. My kids really don't like this family's ungracious, competitive-to-the-detriment of all others attitude. I equate the parents' behavior to the unpleasant antics of the competitive adults on the sidelines watching a child's sporting event (up to and including commenting - kids and the adults - on how much smarter and skillful they are than all others in the game. This family has also deliberately mispronounced other family's names, which was clearly meant as an insult, when they won a challenge).
Watching this family though has opened some good discussions with my kids about the desire to win and come out on top and being a good sport about it. And what being a "good sport" and the spirit of sportsmanship is -- and what it is not.
Here's a short clip from last week's ending, which actually makes the DiSalvatore's look a bit like poor sports but they've been pretty gracious up this point given the other antics of the Coote family.
Anyone watching this show and want to share their opinion about it?
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The reality show is over and the DiSalvatore familiy won and my kids could not be happier. The final challenge had my kids and husband on the edge of their seats and pulling out their hair rooting for that family. In this final episode there was a real sense of working together as a family and the parents respecting the kids' thoughts about how to complete the challenge; that those suggestions had value (in the end it turned out that the oldest DiSalvatore son solved the puzzle and won the prize for the family). Lots of great life lessons to talk about with my own kids with this show. G. said she's going to miss Silvio the DiSalvatore dad with his antics (accent, Italian hand-talking and general entertainment appeal). Someone at NBC did a darn fine job choosing the competing families... and editing the footage to maximize interest building up to the final episode. My kids were totally hooked on this show all summer. But I'm glad it's over. Their hair-pulling at the end of the show was too much suspense. G. baked an apple pie while watching the show because she said she just couldn't sit on the couch and watch the show anymore. The suspense was killing her. ;)
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