After four seasons of TLC’s hit “Welcome to Plathville,” there’s no question fans have seen a transformation in Kim Plath, the mama bear of the Plath children. During Season 3, The Sun reported that viewers griped about Kim and Barry’s “manipulative” parenting nature, however this season might have simply modified their minds on Kim.
In response to People, whereas Kim and Micah had been out for drinks, Micah inquired about Kim’s parenting strategies. Kim then disclosed that when she was 4 and 5 years outdated, her mom, who was a single mother or father, employed a teenage boy to babysit her who abused her. “That performed a really massive half in me being protecting — possibly overprotective — however to me, the danger of not being overprotective sufficient is so nice that I might relatively err on the facet of overprotecting than beneath and have one thing like that occur,” Kim stated with regard to her childhood trauma.
This seemingly helped put the items collectively for Micah, who responded in a loving, understanding method in the direction of his mom and her parenting choices with the brand new context given. “It offers me extra of an understanding of who she is as an individual and the way in which she raised us, the foundations she had and the partitions she had constructed,” Micah stated in a confessional. “It is like a penny-drop second.”
