{"id":7562,"date":"2013-01-02T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:46:25","slug":"16-kids-and-counting-interview-with-sue-radford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/16-kids-and-counting-interview-with-sue-radford\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Kids and Counting – Interview with Sue Radford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you remember that\u00a0marvellous\u00a0show last year – 15kidsandCounting<\/a>? Well Supermum Sue Radford <\/a>is now a mother of 16 children and a grandmother<\/a>!<\/div>\n
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16 kids and Counting <\/a>airs on 11th January 2012 \u00a0Channel 4 9pm<\/a><\/div>\n
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If, like me, you were amazed at how they managed to do it all then you will pleased to know that Sue Radford<\/a> agreed to do an interview for me.<\/div>\n
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What made you do the first show? And what message would you have hoped came across? Do you feel this was the case? What made you do the new show? How is it different from the first? Is there anything you’d like people to take away from watching it?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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When we first got asked to do the 15 Kids and Counting, back in January 2011, we turned it down because we\u00a0didn’t\u00a0really want the children in that kind of spot light. But then after them pestering us again to do it, we decided that we would. But not without asking the children first, because if one of them had said no they\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want to do it then we would have said no.<\/div>\n
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We really thought it would be a good thing to show big families in a positive light, and that people with big families are not always on\u00a0benefits. That actually we work hard for what we have and we make it work so well.\u00a0I really do feel that after people had watched the programme we had changed a lot of people’s views. One message we got from a lady said that she really\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want to watch the programme because she did have the view that people with big families\u00a0didn’t\u00a0work and were all on\u00a0benefits, she said we really changed her mind. We also had a message from a young mum that was struggling with her 3 children, who said that after watching the programme she got up and, instead of being really down in the dumps, she had a spring in her step, which she believed she owed to me. We also got a lot of fan mail through the post.<\/div>\n
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What do you enjoy most about being part of a large family? What are the advantages?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I would say the thing we like most about being in a big family is that we are all so close and the house is always full of laughter. We love watching them all playing together and we know that when they get older they will all be so.\u00a0I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0ever imagine having 2 children my life would just be so boring.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I asked Sue to tell me about each of her children. I felt it was important as it really shows how each one is an individual and very well loved:<\/em><\/div>\n