Post by Jeanne Sager
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is just a few weeks old, and already the TLC reality show has become a cult classic of sorts. Americans are delighting in the feelings of superiority that well up on Wednesday nights as they watch 6-year-old Alana Thompson (aka Honey Boo Boo), her mom June Shannon, and the rest of the family welcome a pig into their home and throw themselves headfirst into all sorts of reindeer -- and redneck -- games. Shannon is the family's matriarch, a mother of four who gave birth to her first child at 15 and is set to become a grandmother at 32. The math alone might make one question her parenting skills. But the problems in the Thompson family run much deeper than a few teen pregnancies.![]()
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is just a few weeks old, and already the TLC reality show has become a cult classic of sorts. Americans are delighting in the feelings of superiority that well up on Wednesday nights as they watch 6-year-old Alana Thompson (aka Honey Boo Boo), her mom June Shannon, and the rest of the family welcome a pig into their home and throw themselves headfirst into all sorts of reindeer -- and redneck -- games. Shannon is the family's matriarch, a mother of four who gave birth to her first child at 15 and is set to become a grandmother at 32. The math alone might make one question her parenting skills. But the problems in the Thompson family run much deeper than a few teen pregnancies.
