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, but this season may have just changed their minds on Kim.
According to People, while Kim and Micah were out for drinks, Micah inquired about Kim's parenting techniques. Kim then disclosed that when she was 4 and 5 years old, her mother, who was a single parent, hired a teenage boy to babysit her who abused her. "That played a very large part in me being protective — maybe overprotective — but to me, the risk of not being overprotective enough is so great that I'd rather err on the side of overprotecting than under and have something like that happen," Kim said in regards to her childhood trauma.
This seemingly helped put the pieces together for Micah, who responded in a loving, understanding way towards his mother and her parenting decisions with the new context given. "It gives me more of an understanding of who she is as a person and the way she raised us, the rules she had and the walls she had built," Micah said in a confessional. "It's like a penny-drop moment."
