Do you get the feeling that celebrities....

[Hillbeans]

Feeling inferior generally comes from inside the person, not from hearing about what someone else does or does not do.

I disagree....it's people like these celebrities who need to justify their own parenting skills while making others feel they're somehow "doing it wrong" by allowing juice or television. It's not as if they're saying "I make my child eat vegetables" which i'm sure would get no press in People Magazine.

JMO - We can agree to disagree though...

 

[Planogirl]

As long as the celebrities (or anyone else) don't come banging on my door to tell me these things I don't care what they say. Some people out there eat this stuff up which is why People and the like sell so well. To me Catherine Zeta Jones, Madonna and all of the others' opinions have just as much weight as those from 'normal' people. I would bet that some celebrities are 'lousy' parents and don't talk about it.

I've heard the same about the wine by the way. I think that Europeans in general are more easy going about a glass of wine when pregnant.

 

[susy]

I guess I should join the bad parents club. I bet CJZ never sat on the edge of her bed in the middle of the night crying from sheer exhaustion when her child was five weeks old....

 

[disykat]

Did any of these celebrities who talk about these things claim that they're superior? I don't get the scorn on this one.

ITA. They were probably asked a question and were giving their opinion. It's just like on the DIS. I don't think giving your opinion on a parenting issue means you are accusing those who have differing opinions bad parents.

Every parent makes the decisions they think is right for their family - it doesn't mean they think all other families should be the same. This is the reason you won't see me on the "I'm being called a bad parent" thread - except for in the posts that are making fun of me for this unpopular opinion!

 

[Planogirl]

I see the Bad Parents thread in a different way than that. I always thought of it as just a light-hearted way of looking at the difficult subject of parenting. None of us are perfect after all, some people just think that they are.

 

[Laurajean1014]

I think everyone thinks they are better than another person.

 

[Dare2Wish]

Madonna as the ultra-conservative mom cracks me up. No tv for Lourdes, yet she paraded her on stage during that MTV awards show where she kissed Britney Spears.

 

[disykat]

I see the Bad Parents thread in a different way than that. I always thought of it as just a light-hearted way of looking at the difficult subject of parenting. None of us are perfect after all, some people just think that they are.

I don't see it that way because I was involved in the thread from which it was started. It was originally started to make fun of other people's opinions on that original thread.

 

[katerkat]

Hey, I don't give my son juice or sweets, AND I make all his food! I didn't know I get to be better than everyone else!

 

[Planogirl]

Hey, I don't give my son juice or sweets, AND I make all his food! I didn't know I get to be better than everyone else!

Braggart!

 

[Dan Murphy]

I think they all are, in a generalization, nuts.

 

[Hillbeans]

Hey, I don't give my son juice or sweets, AND I make all his food! I didn't know I get to be better than everyone else!

But the difference is that i'm sure you didn't dance around in your underwear on TV on awards shows for everyone to see and then say TV is something you "won't let your kids watch" assuming you think TV is trash.....that's why I think what Madonna is saying is really hypocritical and "holier than thou".

I don't think people who make their own babyfood is "holier than thou" either, but when celebrities say it like they're better than everyone else because "their child never ate an apple that wasn't organic" then I think it's just being condesending.

 

[nwdisgal]

That's what I was thinking. It's easy to say "no ice cream" when you aren't the one actually saying no.

Denae

Oh when the person saying no, is the child's personal nutritionist, or personal chef.

 

[kasar]

Ah, who cares? The people who brag about their parenting skills are usually the ones that I least want to be like anyhow.

Good for them for doing what they think is right. I'm doing that too only we have different "standards" of what's right. I have to say that I find a cup of juice once in a while less harmful than some of the situations I see these kids in but that's life. I wouldn't want to be famous for all the money in the world. Yuck.

 

[princesspumpkin]

There are MANY things that I did as a young adult that I would definitely not want (or allow) my child to do. I think it's called learning from experience. Celebs are interviewed for various reasons and asked all kinds of questions. I don't see this as a statement that they feel superior to anyone else, just statements saying what they do in their own lives. I can see that people feel that having a nanny is almost like giving up your child for adoption. But I think it's similar to daycare for non-celbs. A movie star may have to be on a set for 14 hours so it seems more feasible to have someone who can take care of their child full-time (especially being able to bring the child on the set). As far as I know, no Dis member actually lives with any of these celebs that are being judged, so we really don't know what goes on behind closed doors. Why must we "hate" on people because their life might be a little (or a lot) easier than ours. I don't hate people who have never had ovarian cancer because of what I had to go thru. And for the comment about celebs and children out of wedlock or getting divorced within a year - uh, I think that most of us probably know a few non-celebs who have that history as well.

 

[Planogirl]

There are MANY things that I did as a young adult that I would definitely not want (or allow) my child to do. I think it's called learning from experience. Celebs are interviewed for various reasons and asked all kinds of questions. I don't see this as a statement that they feel superior to anyone else, just statements saying what they do in their own lives. I can see that people feel that having a nanny is almost like giving up your child for adoption. But I think it's similar to daycare for non-celbs. A movie star may have to be on a set for 14 hours so it seems more feasible to have someone who can take care of their child full-time (especially being able to bring the child on the set). As far as I know, no Dis member actually lives with any of these celebs that are being judged, so we really don't know what goes on behind closed doors. Why must we "hate" on people because their life might be a little (or a lot) easier than ours. I don't hate people who have never had ovarian cancer because of what I had to go thru. And for the comment about celebs and children out of wedlock or getting divorced within a year - uh, I think that most of us probably know a few non-celebs who have that history as well.

Well said!!! I think that having a nanny is way better than a daycare (and my son went to daycare for several years) and I also agree that I don't see that anyone feels superior to anyone else.

I bet than even celebrities for the most part love their children and do their best. I imagine that some even question their methods from time to time just as most of us do.

Oh by the way, I ONLY buy organic milk. A certain brand just tastes so good.

 

[Kimberly]

I could care less if celebrities had their children to walk on their hands and play drums with their feet all day long.

Wait a minute... that sounds like fun!

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I find it a continuous source of amusement that celebrities delude themselves by thinking anyone outside their little circle of friends cares one whit about what they think on any issue, let alone parenting. They pontificate as though they are the fountain of all knowledge and wisdom on this or any subject.

 

[princesspumpkin]

I find it a continuous source of amusement that celebrities delude themselves by thinking anyone outside their little circle of friends cares one whit about what they think on any issue, let alone parenting. They pontificate as though they are the fountain of all knowledge and wisdom on this or any subject.

Well laugh on, because there must be a few people who give a whit for there to even be a thread about it.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Does this mean you're not going to read parenting books by Marilu Henner? LOL

I couldn't change the channel fast enough when she was making the rounds with all of her parenting wisdom. And not surprisingly, she's good buddies with Kathie Lee Gifford. Blech!