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[quote=Anonymous]I’m referring to the Britney Spears videos. I hope this doesn’t get deleted or reposted to entertainment because my issue really isn’t with her per se but the many people coming out of the woodwork to say that they see nothing wrong with her parenting in these videos  :shock:

In the videos you see her yelling at her 11 and 12 year olds over extremely minor issues (not wearing shoes in a store in one, not putting lotion on their faces in another), cursing them out, telling them to “get the f&ck out of here” and using f&ck every other word, waking them up in the middle of the night to berate them and commanding them to respect her. It’s very authoritarian - you will do as I say because I am in charge.

Look, I’m not saying she should lose custody over this (I think instead she could have benefitted from taking some parenting classes) but do people really see this as normal? Is this how people are commonly treating their kids these days?

It’s weird to me because every other irl and online parenting group I’ve ever been involved with (including to some extent DCUM) is all about child centric parenting and gentle parenting. To the extent that yelling at your kids is seen as truly abusive, never mind spanking or hitting.

Ftr, I like Britney and understand the desire to defend her against the many people who have taken advantage of her. I think her ex’s decision to post the videos was an absolutely appalling violation of her privacy and harmful to their sons. But, that aside, the parenting in the videos is just not good and it surprises me that people have been defending the actual content of the videos.

What do you think?[/quote]

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