August 1st, 2007

Pahhh-Lease

 

I just got my naptime celebrity fix at dlisted (Thank you, Sissi, for getting me hooked!). I read this article which made me crabby. Britney Spears is being chastized for her parenting again, which this time is petty in my opinion:

Britney shoves a juice bottle in their mouth to stop them from crying.

Britney asked a dentist if they could whiten her kid’s teeth.

Britney feeds them Doritos and Sodie Pop.

Britney gives them chewing gum.

Britney gives them ice cream before bed, because the cold calms them.

Now that’s just stoopid! Would it be news worthy if she fed her boys some brocolli and tabouli? No. I’m sure the kids aren’t LIVING off of pop and doritos! Geez.

First of all, I don’t like any celebrities really. I think they are pretty disappointing. I read celebrity gossip when I’m taking my little afternoon break, usually only if there are no new blog posts out there. I should probably knit or something. I lose brain cells to this crap.

But really. Have you never had ice cream before bed? I mean, I grew up eating coffee ice cream before bed at least once a week and I have fabulous teeth! Also, I give my kids ice cream before bed all the time– “after dinner dessert” would be considered “before bed”. Can people not give their kids dessert anymore? Someone call DSS on me; I’m breaking the law here!

Call them fast too. Cause guess what!? I’m also taking them to McDonald’s for dinner. (Hisss. Booooo. Gahhh!)

Britney, darlin’, you come on over to my house anytime and we’ll eat some fried chicken, sweet tea, and pecan pie. We could even sneak some cookies to the kids when the cameras aren’t looking.

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14 comments so far

You’re welcome :) I agree with you , anyway how do they know their diet on a daily basis? They make their story on one single picture , this is so stupid . Right now my 15 months old daughter is having a little pistachios snack with her father. My four children have a good dental hygiene and they never had any cavities (so far),we have a good diet and we eat sugary and bad stuff as well.
I read the post about Britney Spears, dlisted was quoting US weekly . US weekly has a magazine to print every week, they need to find some “outrageous” stuff and put it in the front page to sell .In the end it is kind of very stupid. I like dlisted because he makes fun of the whole celebrity thing, he is the only one I read. The others are garbage especially the famous (why?) and nasty Perez H.
I should propably knit as well:

sissi
August 1st, 2007 at 8:58 pm

Amen. I remember them making a huge deal about her having her baby in the carseat the wrong way. Ok, um, I did that with my 1st. He’s 12 now. He lived.
I get so sick of them making a huge deal out of nothing. She’s kinda skank to me, but I think they need to leave her parenting alone. She’s figuring it all out like the rest of us. We just didn’t have cameras following us around.

Tori :)
August 1st, 2007 at 9:32 pm

I’m ambivalent about the whole celebrity reporting deal. There’s too much mind numbing mundane garbage being foisted upon us (you post is an excellent example). If they really want an expose about bad parenting, there’s plenty of trailer parks around that could provide material.

Celebrities are so full of hubris that there’s always going to be something interesting or scandalous happening somewhere in celebrityland, that’s all I’m interested in. If they only reported that I’d be OK with it.

And I object to the papparazzi invading their lives constantly, and achieving such boring results that they are now taking to baiting them to get a rise out of the poor schmucks (you just do see schmuck used enough these days). I accept that celebs feed of public adulation, but no-one deserves that crap.

Willowtree
August 1st, 2007 at 10:13 pm

Ooops, just noticed a few typos, but only one changed the meaning of the sentence, that should say “…you don’t see schmuck…”

Willowtree
August 1st, 2007 at 10:16 pm

hehe. despite not having sugar introduced to my oldest diet at ALL until well after she was a year old, she’s had 10 cavaties so far! i’m so glad i don’t have a camera shoved in my face recording every detail of my life. what a sad existence that would be…

jenica
August 1st, 2007 at 11:38 pm

I am kind of addicted to celebrity gossip websites, and have done my share of wallowing in Britney gossip. I need to break the habit I think!

I can only imagine how insane I’d seem if my every move was documented.

Stepherz, I am glad I found your blog! Your dragon-fighting logo is fantastic.

Jess
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

I totally agree. God bless you to invite her for tea.

Gina
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Seriously. I don’t know about all the drug using, but the let’s-paint-Brittney-as-the-world’s-worst-most-narcissistic-mother has bugged me since it started. I think it has more to do with the other celebrity moms and their whole “ever minute I spend with my little angel is like a gift from God, every minute thing. Man does that get old. So when all other celebrity moms are perfect in every way, they had to pick someone to pick on, right? Poor Brittney. The tea will do her good.

Nell
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 am

When you have tea with her, do speak to her about having the kids teeth whitened, would you. In my humble opinion, that’s a bit to far.

Dearest Willowtree, I used to use schmuck all the time until an old supervisor I once had asked me what it meant… I explained how *I* was using it… you know… he’s a schmuck. But when I looked it up in the dictionary and had to confess that it really means penis in Yiddish… my usage of the word dwindled.

~Sheryl
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm

Holy shit! I didn’t know that. I’ve seen it used heaps of times in old movies (maybe that’s how they got around the censors), but in truth I’ve never used it in conversation (it’s not common in Aust). Now I feel like a real schmuck!

Willowtree
August 4th, 2007 at 3:05 am

I thought the same thing today when I saw this big article chastising Katie Holmes Cruise for letting her 15 month old still have a bottle. I thought, “Let her alone for Pete’s sake…” I mean they are just people too. Stop being so petty against them.

Deana
August 5th, 2007 at 1:54 am

Geeze, if I were a celebrity my kids would have been removed from my care several times over already… I mean.. sometimes we eat cereal for DINNER! And I just gave them all sodie pop in their sippy cups 5 minutes ago!!!! Lets not forget about how I have been known to leave them sitting in the car while I walk 5 feet away to the library book drop off… shame Georgia! SHAME!!!

I am not really a fan of Britney, and I do think she is pretty trashy, but since I don’t actually know her how could I ever fairly judge? I really feel badly for her most of the time.

Georgia
August 6th, 2007 at 6:17 pm

The only thing I thought was “off” was the bottle/juice thing. I hope she’s not letting them sleep with it and a bottle now as in July - that youngest is almost 2 or over 2. The bottle needs to go! But who freaking cares what I think - everyone does things differently.
I get real annoyed at the the people saying omg she’s out all the time partying. Ya so what? Kids sleep all night usually - what exactly is she missing out on. Unless she’s sleeping until 1 pm every day - not much. She’s young so I’m sure she gets by just fine going to bed at 3 am and getting up at 9.
Damn! lol

Cheri
August 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

1. Most celebrities are insulated twits without a clue about the real world.
2. Britney was being drugged by Osama “Sam” Lufti, who is now being investigated. The court documents (smokinggun.com) stated that he would do things like hide her dog until she panicked, so he could find it and be the hero, among many other things.
3. Wow. Ice cream before bed. The abuse! Please, my parents used to let me run around then neighborhood, summer nights, after dark, in bare feet, to the 7-11, with just other kids, to buy Pop Rocks for God’s sake.
4. Her kids are so adorable, you have to admit.

Mom of Three
June 4th, 2008 at 7:24 am



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