Good parent hall of fame - as an antidote to the Bad Parent Hall of Fame

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Katie Holmes

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Anonymous wrote:Tom and Rita Hanks
Jennifer Garner

No. Tom’s kids from his first marriage (e.g., Colin) are doing ok but his kids with Rita are a bit messed up, particularly Chet.

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Anonymous wrote:Which celebrities do you think are sensible, grounded parents? Which ones have good relationships with their kids, or have adult children who are by all accounts well-adjusted?

Nice balance OP. Parenting is really hard even out of the spotlight. Hats off to people living in the public eye who raise healthy normal independent human beings.

Michelle and Barak Obama
Bruce Springsteen
Emma Thompson
Julie Andrews (RIP)
Stephen King
Hilary Duff
Serena Williams
Reese Witherspoon
Halle Berry

Julie Andrews is still living!!

+1 that was a jump scare!

Right?! Was wondering how I missed that and was about to Google.

I DID Google. Happy to report she is, in fact, still living. And I also agree she is a good parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Which celebrities do you think are sensible, grounded parents? Which ones have good relationships with their kids, or have adult children who are by all accounts well-adjusted?

Nice balance OP. Parenting is really hard even out of the spotlight. Hats off to people living in the public eye who raise healthy normal independent human beings.

Michelle and Barak Obama
Bruce Springsteen
Emma Thompson
Julie Andrews (RIP)
Stephen King
Hilary Duff
Serena Williams
Reese Witherspoon
Halle Berry

Julie Andrews is still living!!

Oh thanks for correction - yes I mixed up her medical condition that ended her beautiful singing with passing away. I heard an interview with JA and her daughter one time. They were delightful together.

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I would guess the parents who have raised children we've never heard of and don't care about have probably done a pretty good job.

Laughing at the lady who said Reese Witherspoon, we definitely know who her depo baby daughter is.

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Anonymous wrote:Tom and Rita Hanks
Jennifer Garner

No. Tom’s kids from his first marriage (e.g., Colin) are doing ok but his kids with Rita are a bit messed up, particularly Chet.

Chet in running point is really good though.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no way of knowing this. The publicists and image managers manipulate what we see about their lives.

+1. People are just assuming these kids are good because they got into a good college or they weren’t arrested before age 18. Have any of these identified kids done anything special? Any volunteer work? Helped an elderly neighbor? Just because your kids stays out of the news doesn’t mean you were a great parent.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no way of knowing this. The publicists and image managers manipulate what we see about their lives.

+1. People are just assuming these kids are good because they got into a good college or they weren’t arrested before age 18. Have any of these identified kids done anything special? Any volunteer work? Helped an elderly neighbor? Just because your kids stays out of the news doesn’t mean you were a great parent.

One of Springsteen’s kids is a firefighter.

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Anonymous wrote:The kids are the ones who are celebrities, but Dakota and Elle Fanning's parents produced two children who were child actors and now adult actors. Dakota has a BA, neither of them are ever in any fights or drama with people, they just do their work and get on with it.

If picking parents by what kids have done and if kids got in any trouble, then need to take Rita and Tom Hanks off the list.

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Mila Kunis

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Anonymous wrote:We have no way of knowing this. The publicists and image managers manipulate what we see about their lives.

+1. People are just assuming these kids are good because they got into a good college or they weren’t arrested before age 18. Have any of these identified kids done anything special? Any volunteer work? Helped an elderly neighbor? Just because your kids stays out of the news doesn’t mean you were a great parent.

One of Springsteen’s kids is a firefighter.

Yes there was a list back in first page that contained many celebs with kids who are regular people.

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Anonymous wrote:Mila Kunis

Too soon to tell. And with Ashton as their father . . .

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/s

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Anonymous wrote:We have no way of knowing this. The publicists and image managers manipulate what we see about their lives.

+1. People are just assuming these kids are good because they got into a good college or they weren’t arrested before age 18. Have any of these identified kids done anything special? Any volunteer work? Helped an elderly neighbor? Just because your kids stays out of the news doesn’t mean you were a great parent.

+1. I think Jennifer's and Ben's kids are very odd. Some of the stuff their daughter Fin posts isn't appropriate. They are too liberal with their approach

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Anonymous wrote:Which celebrities do you think are sensible, grounded parents? Which ones have good relationships with their kids, or have adult children who are by all accounts well-adjusted?

How would we know?