Driving with baby on lap!...

Like I said, I am not defending her. I just think she may have freaked. Anything she does with this baby in public will be scrutinized to death.

But, no, I certainly would never drive with a baby in my lap. I've seen people doing it, and I always get pissed off. Or people whose kids are roaming around the minivan without a carseat, on the highway.

She made a bad decision. I know nothing about the rest of her mothering skills, but I don't know if she can be judged on this alone, nor is it something to have CPS take her kid away because of.

 

Let's see. She preplanned her C-section, dumped the kid on the nanny and the moment she has it she drives with it on her lap like her trailer dwelling rest of her family.

 

i may think she's a bit stupid, but i don't think she's evil or hates her baby. i saw a picture of her, though, during the incident, and she looks pissed off, not freaked out. but i'm no perfect judge of peoples facial expressions. she may have started off freaked out, then got really pissed with herself once she realized how stupid she was.

 

if she was pissed off at herself for how stupid she was, she'd always look angry...*sorry* couldn't help myself. I REALLY can't stand Britney Spears.

 

meh. i think she's just ordinary and therefore she doesn't provoke much emotional response from me at all.

 

I think that she was totally nuts. I've seen tons of magazinges where she's posing with her baby for pictures. Honestly, if people were running after me and Leane taking pictures, I would much rather take the couple extra minutes and put her in her car seat and have her photo taken, then get into an accident have have something happen to her, (god forbid).
I saw on one of them entertainment programs that she bought a car seat some weeks B4 that, and that's why she wasn't charged. Bull./

 

I don't think you guys are being completely fair. Especially considering that one of the major themes in the vast majority of the threads here is "I'm tired of other people calling me a bad parent because they don't like something I did."

Now, granted, what she did really was stupid, but she clearly had no intention of hurting her child. She's also not the first new parent who did something like that without considering the consequences. She made a mistake. That doesn't mean she's a child abuser, and that's no reason for everyone to try to turn her into some kind of monster.

 

well, if you've ever seen a star being mobbed and heavily harassed by hoards of fans or parsitic photogrphers i think people would have a bit more sympathy. they get the scent of blood or something & start getting rough. it'd be easy to panic then feel really pissed off with yourslf for it after the heat of the moment has passed. i'm feeling sympthetic for her now, people. we sheep called the american public have scented a wounded starlett & are as a whole enjoying the kill. we're awfully fickle animals, aren't we? we can be so vicious.

 

That's what I was saying, KC.

 

I haven't seen anything maternal about her. She planned a C-section and spinal block so she would be able to watch Baywatch reruns while the doctors took her childbirth out of the picture. She's got a nanny, now she's planning on having a second kid dude WTF?

It's like Michael Jackson dangling his baby over a balcony. If your involvement with your kids is having the staff bathe and clothe them and bring them to you (until they cry) where's the love?

 

I do agree that Mamas should take care of their children, if they are at all capable. What was the baby doing with her at Starbucks? I kinda was hoping she was spending a lot of time with the kid, but I know absolutely NOTHING about her, or her home life.

Believe me, I have no extreme sympathy for Spears. I'm thinking this has pretty much played out. Let's hope she thinks next time.

I would like a house keeper, but I wouldn't take a nanny, even if I was loaded.

 

well, shit, my baby sister, while she may be wild and stuff, is still a wonderful girl. she's terrified enough of the whole process that she thought that c-section would be way easier and less frightening. she has no idea. she's had very little education in that area. i can't blame spears for thinking scheduling a birth would be one way she can feel a lot less terrified and out of control. i had the same thought when i was first thinking of getting pregnant. it's so fucking scary, the thought of it. it was sorta taken out of my hands, but i can't say for sure one way or the other how i would have decided in the end.