Tom welling specifically asked for someone to play his character's bully that was at least taller than him, to make it semi-believable that he was getting bullied (I think he might've even specifically requested Jared, cause he knew him?). Jared said this role was fun because he got to spend just like a day or two on set hanging out with Tom, "bullying" his friend~^.^

So a comparison for you, on average a Division 3 coach makes around $110,000 a year (which is not bad at all), BUT a Division 1 coach makes around $1.2 million a year. Huge difference. 😂

As the youngest of 11 children, some of us were absolutely left behind at our grandma's a few times. We started doing a roll call eventually!

My biggest problem with this movie was the lack of responsibility on the older children for helping with the family and around the house. My feeling is it was due to the mother being a stay at home mom and doing absolutely everything for them and the comedic affect of the crash by the overworked father who hadn't spent as much time tuning his child rearing chops, but I found it unbelievable.

I love how 40% of the comments are "one of my siblings did a similar thing in my regular -sized family", 40% of the comments are "large families are inherently neglectful, which is the reason for all the conflict. This wouldn't happen if they got rid of 9 of their kids", and the remaining 20% are "why aren't the parents parentifying their older children to raise the younger ones? It's child abuse, but at least the parents wouldn't be so overworked". At least the ones reacting to the movie recognize the normalcy. The conflict is that the parents are temporarily prioritizing their dream careers over their dream family, not that they have too many kids to safely keep in their household.

Idk, Nora is an adult and most definitely has the right to move in with her boyfriend but I think it's also completely reasonable for the parents to enforce a rule of no sleepovers for her boyfriend because there are young children in the house who could possibly hear or see something inappropriate. Also, as someone who has a sister 4 years older than her, it was always extremely uncomfortable for my sisters boyfriends to sleep over at our house because I never felt I could fully relax. One time, when I was 16, one of her boyfriends at the time was sleeping over at our house and he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I was laying in my bed on my phone with my back to the door when I felt my bed dip. I turned around and my sisters 20 year old boyfriend had sleepily walked into the wrong room and got in my bed to sleep. Nothing happened, he fell asleep immediately and I got out of my bed and wake my sister up, she jumped out of her bed and woke him up to bring him back to her room but it didn't make the situation any less scary and weird though.

Fun fact: Behind the scenes, the director revealed that the soaking underwear in the meat prank was actually Steve Martin's idea.

I remember when my parents wanted to move to a bigger house when I was 12ish, they broached the topic slowly. I made a whole presentation in favour of staying put, and started doing more chores to demonstrate I was happy to stay. Didn’t work and the new house was better suited to teenagers who like space. Moving from where you’ve always been feels like the end of the world though.

An educator I follow often says, “misbehavior communicates an unmet need,” that could be the tagline of this movie. Too many kids, but not enough parents to give them attention even when the mom was home.

My family regularly quotes that bully saying “my latte!” to this day hahaha I don’t know why that was like our favorite moment of this movie growing up 😂😂😂

Nah, most of these kids should be more independent by now. The biggest parenting fail isn’t not making time, it’s not teaching them to be mindful of others or how to take care of themselves.

I think something so impactful about this is that Tom is the complete opposite of weaponized incompetence. He genuinely wants himself and Kate to achieve their individual dreams because they achieved their big family already. And it’s not that he doesn’t ask for help, he truly tries to make do and hire for help. Which is saying a lot.

Tom Welling was about 25 when he filmed Cheaper By the Dozen. He was pretty good at pulling off being a teenager back then 'cause he was a teenage Clark Kent on Smallville at the same time lol. And his main reason for doing the film was because he wanted to work with Steve Martin.

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I'm honestly so happy that Mark (aka FedEx 😅) got imo the COOLEST bedroom in the new house 😊🩷

The whole storyline with Mark, him being consistently called FedEx, and then no one caring that his pet died just makes me cry every time.

I gotta say, This movie, the second one and also Yours Mines & Ours (2005 version) are some of my most fav movies. You should react to Cheaper By The Dozen 2 and also Yours Mines & Ours (2005)

When Steve Martin said I want you to have the best life which mean you get a diploma. That means graduate high school. In the states a diploma is high school and a degree is college

She still has 12 kids just cause the one doesn't live with them,