Lynne Spears on Parenting

Lookee here. If wonders never cease!

It seems like the mother of the Anti-Mother-of-the-year is going to be putting out a parenting book. Not only will the woman who let her 16 year-old daughter become a music vamp give advice on how to raise a child who wants to get implants at 16, but she’ll put a religious spin on it.

Religious publisher Thomas Nelson said it will publish “Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World,” by Lynne Spears. Nelson spokesman Curt Harding said the book, to be out next spring, will be about Lynne Spears’ raising three children and will have a religious element.

Mwahaha!!

Ok, ok. It’s not completely fair to laugh about something like this. I’m sure Lynne Spears is questioning her own parenting prowess as she watches her little gem fight a losing battle for her own children. I mean, Brittany had to learn how to be a mother from someone. Right?

I have a 16 year-old daughter. I know what it’s like to raise one. You’ve got a very thin line to walk to try and prevent them from becoming what Spears has apparently become. But I have no sympathy for her mother. The woman molded her daughter into the person we see today. Sometime in Brittany’s life, Lynne had the opportunity to say “No, you’re just a child” and she didn’t do that. Not only that, she failed to instill any kind of sense of parental responsibility. She failed miserably at showing her child how to parent- period. It’s easy to understand that Brittany getting married for 55 hours, going on drinking binges and ruining her own life is Brittany’s fault. But who taught her that it was ok to drive with her baby on her lap? Who forgot to mention safety straps in a high chair? How is it that in an era when mothers predominately get custody of their children- or, shoot, even visitation- that Brittany lost so badly?

I think I know what happened. Lynne coddled Brittany and tried to be her friend. She forgot that parents should be parents first. Maybe she was afraid Brittany would pull a Macaulay Culkin and divorce her- taking all of her millions with her. Maybe she was living vicariously through Brittany and didn’t want to piss her off by telling her “No, you’re just a child”. She didn’t lay down the law and she didn’t lead by example. She failed. And she certainly didn’t do it with the help of a higher power.

This is not a parenting book I’m looking forward to.

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