Apparently - and not surprisingly - family and friends of Jamie Lynn Spears are expressing their joy at the arrival of her baby and asserting their confidence in her parenting abilities. "She'll be a great mom," said a family friend. "She'll be awesome."
Of course. But - and forgive me in advance for asking the snarky but all-too-obvious question - has everyone forgotten how old she is? She's a teenager, for chrissakes. I'm sure that she'll be awesome in the loves-her-kids-adores-them-lavishes-them-with-kisses kind of way, but in the practical, everyday, raising-them-and-nurturing-them-and-keeping-them-in-their-diapers--without-losing-her-mind kinda way? I'm not sure that's obvious.
(The other, unspoken, variable here? She's a Spears. The family maintenance track record there isn't so good. Just sayin'.)
I KNOW: I should not condemn her parenting skills before she's barely started. And I'm not - for all I know, she could be the mother to trump all mothers. But speaking as a thirty-something mother of two who - despite multiple university degrees and a stable home and happy marriage and bags of life experience - has struggled mightily with the experience of being a 'good' mother, I feel obliged to point out that THIS SHIT IS HARD. And if it's hard for those of us who have buckets of resources and few spotlight-related pressures, how hard is it going to be for a teenager with a pimply teenaged baby daddy and hordes of paparazzi riding her ass?
One family member spoke somewhat sensibly: "She's awfully young to be a momma," said distant cousin Margie Busby.
"But that's what they make [grandmothers] for. They have to help.
That's the way it is with our circle of friends."
Is that going to be enough?
I'm just askin.'
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