Do we all agree that Alicia Silverstone's approach to parenting is crazy?
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It's weird that she named her son "Bear." But in Hollywood names, I guess that is kinda tame.
What's gross is that she chews up her son's food, then feeds it to him. I wonder if she will continue to do this when he is older. If so, how MUCH older? Yuck. Just yuck. And her views on bathing just gross me out. She doesn't believe in daily or even every other day bathing. She likes to wait until her body's "natural" oils come to the skin's surface which may take up to a week. Again..Yuck. |
Anonymous
That part about bathing made me laugh out loud. Stars, they're just like us (except when they are letting their "natural oils" rise to the surface). I'm laughing again. At lease rinse off, Alicia. |
Anonymous
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Loved this article. The website might not be safe for work. It's called "I f*cking love science"
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dear-parents-you-are-being-lied Alicia is so dumb. Another Jenny McCarthy. |
Anonymous
| "Do we all agree ...?" threads are written by tools. |
Anonymous
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Isn't she the one who fed her baby solid foods by chewing it up herself and then spitting it into her baby's mouth, or was that some other actress?
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Anonymous
That's her. |
Anonymous
| Seems like Scientology is out, Anti-vax is in with the celebrity set. |
Anonymous
YEP, she's quirky for sure. |
Anonymous
Same with sleep trainers and CIO proponents. |
Anonymous
I won't buy her book, but I'll look at it in the library. I often think that there's some truth in things like this that at first sound crazy. Her thesis that eating a very clean, healthy diet is the basis for health sounds plausible to me. I think the health of the mother, including what she eats and has eaten during her life pre-conception, has a big impact on the health of the child. If she doesn't want to vaccinate her kids, that's her choice. If she wants to use cabbage leaves and breast milk for colds, OK, whatever. Just because some of her ideas seem kooky, doesn't mean all are. I am a firm believer in the value of eating the proper foods, and eliminating all chemicals from environment and diet. I've seen the difference in my family's health, so at least that part of her parenting philosophy is sound. The rest of it, well, I'll read it in the library. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, she comes off as pretty naive. My dd also wasn't sick for her entire first year. Other than her vaccines she never had a "drop of medicine." You better believe when she first ran a high fever with a rash, sometime in that next year, I gave her some tylenol. Although now that she's 3, I am much less liberal with the fever reducers. Apart from small babies, fevers don't hurt- they may be uncomfortable but there isn't really a need to medicate. Now that her kid is 2, she doesn't have to worry about them, but I would place money that if/when the kid gets really sick she gives him whatever he needs to get better. |
Anonymous
| I am pro-vax, but I agree with trying non-medicine remedies first for MINOR problems. I've never chewed my kid's food, but that's common in other cultures, and my kids don't bathe daily. Here's the thing. She has one kid who is TWO. How is she an expert on anything kid related, if that is the basis of her advice? What will she do if her kid gets seriously ill? She probably doesn't know. It's easy to have her attitude with a very young, healthy child. |
Anonymous
| Can we all agree that the posters who love to call other women's parenting decisions crazy are mean spirited and tiresome? |
Anonymous
Not when it comes to not vaccinating. Everything else, yes. |
Anonymous
Tool. 
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