How do you raise a lovely young adult like Lauren Conrad?
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Anonymous
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I am re-watching the Hills right now and she is probably 20-21 years old. She is put together, level headed, makes good choices and has her life together.
Her parents have raised her right! |
Anonymous
| Have your kid read from a script |
Anonymous
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She's the girl who didn't go to Paris! Not all of her choices were that great.
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Anonymous
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People generally raise themselves.
Meaning, become and act the way they want to be. Unless there is some actual evil, huge disfunction in in their lives, Imho. Parents and how they behave is observed So, we can all work on ourselves. That's about it. Don't know the story/tv show so don't know if I support whatever decision you're talking about |
Anonymous
| I don’t view people choosing to be on a reality show as lovely and having their life together. |
Anonymous
Wow, do not agree. I actually used to say this about myself, for a long time. I come from a highly dysfunctional family and experienced a lot of neglect as a kid (also abuse, but I had two siblings with serious behavioral/mental health problems, one parent with serious medical issues, and one parent we now know had untreated bipolar and major anxiety issues), and just largely left to my own devices to figure out everything from puberty to friendships to school. But I was high functioning, got good grades, involved in activities and successful at that, and well behaved. So I told myself it was okay, I'd raised myself and done a good job. I later realized that my parents had a profound impact on me, and a lot of the problems of my upbringing came home to roost later on, in my 20s and 30s. I've had to work really hard to overcome them. I no longer believe it's possible for a child to raise themselves, and parents will influence the well being of a child somehow, some way, even if you don't see it at first. |
Anonymous
| This post is utterly bizarre and 20 years too late. |
Anonymous
| Such a bizarre post. REALLY bizarre. |
Anonymous
Who is she? Why are you taking her media persona as her real personality? Your kids have to be themselves not someone else's knock off. If you show them by your example and teach value of good manners, they'll absorb some of it and develop on it if it resonates with them. |
Anonymous
| Why are you re-watching this old reality show? Please get a life. |
Anonymous
| I mean, I would like to raise someone with a multi million dollar brand,yes. |
Anonymous
Better than the garbage on now. |
Anonymous
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She is the exact same age as me and I watched her on Laguna Beach The Real OC, though I never watched The Hills. On LB she came across as someone who was very stable and loving home life. Spoiled rotten and not too intelligent, but overall pretty decent. OTOH with Kristen C. you could tell her parents didn’t care about her and she was left to raise herself and figure out her own morals.
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Anonymous
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Lauren is also a producer on The Hills so yeah . . .
Love me some LC as well but think she had editing power before the real birth of reality tv and wanted to be able to go on to have a fairly lowkey normal life, which she does. |
Anonymous
+1 also grew up watching Laguna Beach and The Hills and have always been a fan of LC. Upon rewatching this year, I noticed she was kind of whiny, didn't really apply herself, and was way too boy-obsessed. Kristin Cavallari was a lot more self-possessed by comparison. I still like LC though and think she has a good head on her shoulders. She was rich, pretty, popular and had to do a lot of growing up in front of cameras. She could be a lot worse. |