Give a Mom a Break
How would your skills as a mother be characterized if camera's and paparazzi recorded every moment of your life? Like the time your child let go of your hand and darted out into the parking lot. Or the time your toddler climbed an fell out of his/her crib? Before you even knew it was something your toddler could do? What about the time you were carrying your infant and you tripped, losing your balance? Oh, and what about that day out by the pool when your toddler's head dipped below the water's surface when you turned your head for a fraction of a second to brush the bee off of your arm? And any mother knows, that if your infant falls asleep in his/her carseat, their head slumps over one way or the other, many times, despite your best efforts to keep them propped up.
What would the media say about you? I think it's disgraceful the way they are out to peg Britney Spears as an incompetent mother. Give her a break already. Most mother's, if not all, have had moments similar to Ms. Spears'; only we weren't caught on tape.
Britney Spears
What would the media say about you? I think it's disgraceful the way they are out to peg Britney Spears as an incompetent mother. Give her a break already. Most mother's, if not all, have had moments similar to Ms. Spears'; only we weren't caught on tape.
Britney Spears
posted by Tootsie Farklepants at 1:10 PM
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You make an excellent point about the media and it's obsession with portraying Britney as an unfit mother.
Everyone forgets that she is still relatively young and inexperienced at being a mom.
When I was just a toddler in the late 50's, my brother who was just a few years older, while playing cowboys and indians, was pacing backwards during his "gunfight at the OK Corral." He didn't figure on Calamity Jane standing at the top of the stairs behind him. He gently bumped "Jane" and after a series of weeble-like wobbles, she went tumbling down the flight of stairs.
My mom, who with six kids and her hands full, didn't realize I had gotten out of my crib, came running when she heard the tumbling. I'm told that my forehead was first indented, then quickly popped out into the biggest bump imaginable.
Screeching sirens on the trip to the hospital all the while mom losing it and blaming herself.
I sometimes joke that although I did very well in school that I was probably a genius and my brother knocked the sense out of me.
Could you imagine if that had happened in today's world and someone had been outside the door of our house with a camera to take pictures of me with the huge bump on my head? I'm sure I would have been taken away with all five of my brothers and put in protective custody. (Or at he very least would have warranted a visit from child services) as Britney has already experienced.
So I agree, let's give her and every other mom a break.
That's all I'm sayin'! Even the most experienced mother has had at least one misstep.
Anonymous... I also wanted to mention that I like your way with words. Particularly the "series of weeble like wobbles"...awesome!
I am going to have to disagree with you on this Miss Farkelpants. :-)
Britany may be a young first time mother, that does not excuse her from driving with her baby in her lap. That was a deliberate choice. I don't believe she could be totally oblivous to what she heard in her prenatal classes about car seats being a requirment to leave the hospital, or ALL the media hype about seat belt laws.
Either she thinks the laws don't apply to her due to her status as a rock star OR she was just being a dumb blonde.
I can't say why she did it, but I don't think she's any more dumb than parents who ride in taxis, bus's, shuttles or any other mode of transportation that do not require car seats.
I don't know about the rest of you guys but I came fom a genaration when seat belts didn't even come in some cars. We were able to crawl around the car like a play ground. This had nothing to do with parents being unfit. Was it smart for Britney to do that? No, but who's perfect. If it were any of us who did that, nobody would have said a darn thing.
Who cares! I mean it is only a baby's life we are talking about, right? Yes, parents make mistakes but THIS many in such a short amount of time? All these things being phtographed in public make you wonder, "What happens when there aren't cameras around?"
In a nutshell Britney is too immature to have a child or too selfish~you pick one.
I think she's being judged unfairly, and said so in my post. That recent pic of her in the convertable is the main example. How do you know the car seat is facing the wrong way? Her son is 8 months old. The requirements for rear facing infant seats are for 20lbs or 1 year. At 8 months, both of my son's weighed 24lbs (I had to consult their baby books). Do you know how much her son weighs? She probably does.
And he wasn't protected from the elements in the convertable. Do you know where she was going? Around the corner to Starbucks perhaps? Who knows? She had curlers in her hair, so she couldn't have been going very far. And last I checked, it wasn't against the law for children to ride in convertables. And how do you know if she did or didn't have him covered in a liberal dose of sunscreen?
Selfish? Could you give me an example of someone becoming a mother for altruistic reasons?
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