![]() And that starts in infancy.Britney Spears’ mom ‘begging’ singer to ‘make amends’ with estranged sister Jamie Lynnīritney Spears made her return to Instagram on Friday by posting an “awkward” video where she ate cake off the floor and flipped off her 41 million followers.Īfter deactivating her account on Tuesday - which she has done multiple times before - the 41-year-old said she “accidentally pressed wrong button.” “This isn’t an issue an issue of condoms. “I’m more concerned about why she didn’t give her daughters talks on self-confidence and appreciating your own worth and saying no,” Chan says. With all the talk about Lynne Spears’ neglecting to give her daughters the proper sex education, Chan feels something even more important has been neglected: An education in self-worth. “Too often parents feel guilty about working too many hours, or want their kids to have things they didn’t have, and they err in thinking they should be friends rather than parents.” A parent makes the rules, sets a role model. “A friend can teach your kid to make farting noises. “This is such a strong case for why you should be a parent and not a friend,” said Janet Chan, editor in chief of Parenting magazine. “To have a woman preparing to write a book about how to raise daughters when her own two daughters are imploding reeks of incredible denial and a lack of self-awareness,” Min said.įor one parenting expert, it comes down to parents – and many of us non-Hollywood types are guilty in degrees of this – wanting to be their kids’ friends. In other cases, it might just be that fame is intoxicating, and the parents get sucked up in the desire to make the most of it, sometimes partying and drinking along with their offspring.īut the case of the Spears family is an extreme one. In a number of Hollywood cases, Min noted, the table gets turned as youngsters – successful too early in life – become the main breadwinners in a family. Britney’s occasional partying buddies, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, and their families have undergone similar scrutiny. To be sure, Lynne Spears isn’t the only parent in the entertainment industry to be accused of imbuing less-than-stellar values in her children. “The sad thing is that you now have a second daughter with a career built on scandal, and a mother who is leading the charge,” said Janice Min, veteran celebrity-watcher and editor of US Weekly. A spokesman for OK! magazine, which routinely pays celebrities for their cooperation, would not comment on whether it had paid for the story. (Jamie Lynn, the star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” told OK! magazine that she was 12 weeks pregnant and the father was 19-year-old boyfriend Casey Aldridge.)Įven worse than an apparent lack of parental guidance, for many, was the possibility that the Spears family stood to profit financially from the pregnancy story. ![]() ![]() She excoriated her for apparently never having had “the talk” with her daughters: the talk about birth control, and the dangers of unprotected sex. “Is Lynne Spears an even worse mother than Britney?” asked celebrity editor Bonnie Fuller on The Huffington Post. (Maybe that’s why her publisher announced that her book – about being a mom, no less, and due on Mother’s Day – was on indefinite hold.)Īcross the Web, the gloves were off Wednesday, if they’d ever been on. But Jamie Lynn’s predicament, piled on top of Britney’s woes, certainly made it seem as if a critical mass of evidence was gathering against Lynne Spears’ parenting skills. ![]() We all know it’s often not fair to blame a parent for a child’s wayward ways. And the question everyone’s asking is: Where the heck was Mom? As Britney Spears was shaving her head, popping in and out of drug rehab, flashing her nether regions and otherwise shocking us over the past year, fresh-faced tween star Jamie Lynn was the scandal-free Spears sister. ![]()
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