WIFE SWAP - Lesson learned?

I appreciate Tanya Marshall's honesty.

At the end of every episode of Wife Swap the producers check back in with the two families to see if they've changed or integrated any lessons learned from the swap into their regular lives.  You know what I'm talking about:  the parents who say how much things have changed in their home and how they now spend more time as a family while we watch footage of the happy family playing lawn darts or inline skating together or something.  Everybody learns something from the Wife Swap experience, right?

Not Tanya Marshall.  The strict, controlling mother who changed places with zany clown Cecilia Harrison-Velasco says during the post-swap interview that she learned nothing from the swap and that they have made absolutely no changes in their home since the swap.

Nothing.  Not a thing.  While they didn't seem to regret participating on the show, they just didn't take anything away from their interaction with the Harrison-Velascos.  It takes more than a couple of weeks with a family of clowns to derail the Marshall family train. 

While I think it's sort of a shame that the experience didn't even make a dent in their strict, boot camp lifestyle, particularly since their kids seem so desperately bored and starving for affection, I do grudgingly respect the Marshall family's honesty about the whole situation.  They could have faked it and dished out some platitudes about how much they've changed, because that's the ideal telegenic situation.  But no, they say point blank that Wife Swap didn't have a profound effect on their lives, unlike the Harrison-Velascos, who seemed to incorporate some of the lessons learned into their day-to-day existence.   

Hey, at least they're being honest.

--Dave Campbell

Comments

[Dazzel the Clown]

I have been doing clowning with my church for over 12 years there are so many free workshops and low cost clown schools that will give you just as much training for under $500 to learn clowning If you were closer I would teach you for free May God Bless the clown in you but dont spend so much money to be a clown there are other ways

[Celeste from Jamaica Queens]

I didn't feel honesty, I felt judgement and smugness. I think they totaly lied to save face that their way was best. The kids had so much fun the they acted like little indoctrinated drones saying we didn't learn anything. I was so ashamed.