Buy Britney Spear's Mom's Book
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Filed in: Media
Britney Spears is a former teenage child gone wild.
Her teenage sister is pregnant. Would you buy their
mom's book on parenting?
Why not? Look at all you could learn about rearing children in the 21st century. Rather, look at all you could learn about how to do parenting wrong. There are more ways to do it wrong than to do it right.
In case you need a scorecard, there's child pop star Britney Spears, the same pantyless parent who makes former husband Kevin Federline look Donny Osmond. It's wonderful what makeup can do to keep an aging princess from aging too much in public.
Then there's Britney's 16 year old little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, star of Nickelodeon's Zoey 101. Maybe the poor girl would have benefited from Facts of Life 101. She's pregnant.
As you would suspect, Britney and Jaimie Lynn's mom, Lynn Spears, was upset at hearing the news of yet another impending step deep into the oblivion known as celebrity grandmotherhood.
Who wouldn't be? Another child, another pregnancy. Another child, another fading star, right? Wrong.
It seems that mother Lynn Spears was writing a book on parenting. Really. I'm not making it up. Guess what? The book deal has been put on hold. Why? I presume that additional research is needed to figure out the difference between a parent and good kids, and a parent and not-so-good kids.
Either that or the book's publisher is really pissed.
I did some research of my own and found the proposed title of Lynn Spears' book: "Pop Culture Mom. A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World." That's a must read if I've ever seen one. In all fairness to the Spears family and their proclivity to rabbitize their lives, Lynn Spears may have a best seller sitting on the shelf.
Who better to show prospective entertainers and their families the dangers of show business than a mom who's walked, run, staggered, and fallen down all the steps of The Yellow Brick Staircase on the road to Emerald Money City?
I say cut her some slack, give her some space, cut the deal, then let her write the book, and sell the rights for a TV mini series for a few more million dollars. Once the Spears Family Values hits the screen maybe we'll forget Ozzie & Harriet once and for all.
Why not? Look at all you could learn about rearing children in the 21st century. Rather, look at all you could learn about how to do parenting wrong. There are more ways to do it wrong than to do it right.
In case you need a scorecard, there's child pop star Britney Spears, the same pantyless parent who makes former husband Kevin Federline look Donny Osmond. It's wonderful what makeup can do to keep an aging princess from aging too much in public.
Then there's Britney's 16 year old little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, star of Nickelodeon's Zoey 101. Maybe the poor girl would have benefited from Facts of Life 101. She's pregnant.
As you would suspect, Britney and Jaimie Lynn's mom, Lynn Spears, was upset at hearing the news of yet another impending step deep into the oblivion known as celebrity grandmotherhood.
Who wouldn't be? Another child, another pregnancy. Another child, another fading star, right? Wrong.
It seems that mother Lynn Spears was writing a book on parenting. Really. I'm not making it up. Guess what? The book deal has been put on hold. Why? I presume that additional research is needed to figure out the difference between a parent and good kids, and a parent and not-so-good kids.
Either that or the book's publisher is really pissed.
I did some research of my own and found the proposed title of Lynn Spears' book: "Pop Culture Mom. A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World." That's a must read if I've ever seen one. In all fairness to the Spears family and their proclivity to rabbitize their lives, Lynn Spears may have a best seller sitting on the shelf.
Who better to show prospective entertainers and their families the dangers of show business than a mom who's walked, run, staggered, and fallen down all the steps of The Yellow Brick Staircase on the road to Emerald Money City?
I say cut her some slack, give her some space, cut the deal, then let her write the book, and sell the rights for a TV mini series for a few more million dollars. Once the Spears Family Values hits the screen maybe we'll forget Ozzie & Harriet once and for all.
