Sorry. It's just been bugging the hell out of me. I'm not worth onehundredandeleventh bazillionaire bucks, and have had to work since the week after my baby was bord so I have had to feed in odd places as I would have to take me and baby to and fro meetings, foodshopping all that crap we all do. Believe me, if I had money, and a nanny, my baby might be going shopping with me but sure as hell would not be eating in an escalator. wtf?! Too busy to stop Brit?? Try running late for a meeting with a hungry baby in tow!

born. Dammit. I hope my baby isn't bored!

I'm sure this rant stems from being pissed that baby can't start preschool until fall (and yes, I work.) I'm so tired.

I hear you. Both my kids had to go to baby sitters when they were 6 weeks old (with my second, my union told me I had to return to work just 4 weeks after giving birth - luckily my doctor found a reason to keep me out longer). They went into daycare when they were about a year old. I've had to juggle my work schedule to be able to drop them off and pick them up. And I was a single parent for several years (actually, I was a single parent while I was still married and living with my first husband - he was not very involved). I get annoyed with Britny, too. It sometimes seems her kids are just cute props for her, and that she's always handing them off.
And once you get your kid in preschool, then they'll start getting all those wonderful colds that kids share. Ah, the joys of parenthood!

'Salright. Well, the proximal cause isn't, but your evident unhappiness is well understood and sympathized with.

You're not the only person bugged by this sort of thing. Even some of us y-chromo-bearing individuals are cringing and shaking our heads. This woman is a walking, talking slow-motion train wreck, and her failing to interrelate properly with her baby -- to her, yet another fashion accessory, apparently -- is symptomatic of much broader issues.

Maybe you saw this over in the blue. It made me think about BS (unfortunate initials!) as not just somebody to sneer at but a young woman who needs some help and somebody to tell her kindly but firmly "No" once in a while, since she's evidently had trouble telling herself.

Having spent just enough time around rich people to know, I can say that this behavior is not uncommon among those who can afford full-time nannies from birth. It's not just a celebrity thing or a Britney thing. The very wealthy live in a different culture, and it's one in which the child-parent relationship is not as sentimentalized.

God that's so sad. That whole "baby as accesory = feed in escalator" thing. Like the way Paris Hilton owns animals. WTF?

It's awful and the price gets paid in human sorrow. Primate babies are supposed to be attached to their mamas when they're tiny, small paws clenched in the fur and so on. It's called bonding. It's called love. I stayed home and went on welfare and kept my kids more or less attached to the breast for their first 15 months of life and I count myself amazingly lucky and blessed to have been able to do so.

I keep reading that link as "Wet T-shirt slogans..."

I rejoice that when our baby was newborn, his mom, who suffers from migraine if she doesn't get enough sleep, gave me the duty for those first three months -- it was more than worth the sleep deprivation to be able to bond with Pax Jr.

I think of people who actively avoid such an opportunity as one generation of emotional ill-health creating the next one.

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Reminds me of the quip "Wet T-shirts belong in the dryer."

the Hispanic lady looks so pissed it isn't even funnay

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Britney Spears's tits:

Priceless, wtf?

Britney is what happens when parents allow their children to be devoured by Disney.

IIRC, Lohan is another of the same variety.