feedback for "Mira Sorvino"
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How delightful! I love the clever things these celbrimoms say...and how much I can learn by their example! For instance, Mira Sorvino says of her children:
"I would never drop them off at day care and I would never put them in a
situation where someone I didn't know had control over them. It's this
terrible fear that somebody could hurt them, especially with all the
horrible, horrible stuff out there about child abuse and molestation."
As always -- celebs...don't pearls of wisdom just drop from their tongues? Aren't they just so refreshingly down-to-earth and real?
Quite right, Mira, daycare is the hallmark of bad momming and is a childcare CHOICE that good mothers choose to reject. Luckily we have celebrities to set us straight. And to show us what it means to be a truly perfect mother.
Honestly. Bloody. Ridiculous.
posted by : crabmommy on 10/23/2007 at 12:43 AM Flag For Abuse
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I dunno, I think actors and actresses are pretty much like every one else. I thought it was realistic interview. And remember, Mira is 40 yo so she has some life experience under her belt.
posted by : infodocta on 10/23/2007 at 2:09 AM Flag For Abuse
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oh crabmommy. lots of people like celebrities, and for me, at least, it's refreshing to read an interview with a celebrity so grounded and seemingly intelligent. she's not saying that daycare is bad, she's saying that she is scared to leave her kids with someone she doesn't know, which seems like a personal neurosis rather than a statement about what moms in general should do.
posted by : StaceysMom on 10/23/2007 at 10:38 AM Flag For Abuse
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Maybe so, Staceysmom -- it just rubbed me the wrong way on a crabby night. I also think celebs need to be careful what they say about childrearing because they DO live in a world of perfect options. I read you -- I overreacted. but I am just SO OVER the fear-based parenting going on in our culture. Should anyone care to read more, I promise to handle the issue with more humor and goodwill over at Crabmommy @ Cookie magazine online. Stay tuned for Wednesday's bit on flu meds and next week, Crabmommy crabs about infant swimming lessons.
posted by : crabmommy on 10/23/2007 at 11:38 AM Flag For Abuse
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I had the same reaction as crabmommy there. I thought the interview was good, she sounds like a great mom, but equating daycare with putting your kids in danger, iven if it's a personal thing, is a bit rough. I'm sure we'd all LIKE to hire a sitter for each of our kids, but it's not practical for most of us. Actually, scratch that- I don't want my kids to grow up scared to take risks. It's a tough balance for any parent, I guess.
posted by : AllisonWonder on 10/23/2007 at 3:03 PM Flag For Abuse
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Good thing Mira doesn't have a real job, or she would have to drop the kids off at daycare, like all the rest of the crappy moms out here in the actual, not movie-star world.
posted by : leebs on 10/23/2007 at 9:21 PM Flag For Abuse
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Right on, crabmommy and leebs. What we don't need is yet another mom (celebrity or no) touting the so-called "horrors" of day care so that she can feel better about her own child care choice. I can afford to pay a nanny, but decided that day care would provide a safer, more stimulating and happier environment for my child. She made a different decision. But neither of us should have to defend ourselves against the other. If I want to stoop to her level, I'll just say congratulations to her if she can find and afford not one, but two, trust worthy care takers who don't leave the kids in the stroller for hours per day while they chat on their cell phone, shop and watch soaps. Check your kids for stroller sores when you get home tonight.
posted by : QsMom on 10/24/2007 at 10:11 AM Flag For Abuse
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I totally agree w/crabmommy, leebs, and QsMom. My child has been in daycare since she was 3 mos. old (I'm a prof, and she was born at the beginning of summer--when fall rolled around, she started daycare) and it's a choice my husband and I made after agonizing over it for months. Grandparents are still working, and they live more than an hour away. My job is the one with the better salary and benefits. My husband could probably stay home if we stripped down to the bare minimum (and gave up on our dream of buying our own home), but we need his income too. We can't afford a nanny. We didn't want a babysitter, because I don't want the scenario described by QsMom; that, plus what do we do when the babysitter is sick or flakes out? We were left with one option: daycare. We chose one that is more like a preschool --structured time for breakfast, lunch, naps, and snacks, but lots of room for choice play etc. At this point I'm convinced that it was the best choice--she has good social skills and she enjoys going to "school" at 3 1/2. Having another rich celebrimom go on with that old saw about giving control of your kids over to someone you don't know is just plain irritating, and unless she's planning to have her kids tutored at home until they're 18, they're going to be out of her control sooner than she thinks...
posted by : katydidmama on 10/25/2007 at 9:40 AM Flag For Abuse
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Just to throw a tad more crabbiness out there...I must say I find it quite annoying to have to read celebrity profiles here at Babble. I get that they need celeb profiles for their numbers (as do we at Cookie magazine where I blog) but I would love for there to come a day when celebs and mommymedia don't entertwine. Yes, I read the Mira piece (it was staring me in the face, so like a car accident I looked) but overall I have little in the way of tolerance for moms who "enjoy reading about celebrities." I guess there's a place for fantasy and dreaming in our culture, but as moms, we need to hear real stories by real people, not hear celebrities gushing about the wonder that is motherhood when-you-have-fifty-servants-and-charter-planes...Yes, I'm crabby. That's why they call me Crabmommy, so sue me for saying we need to laugh, cry, and commiserate as real mothers together on this planet -- but NOT have to read about those moms who live in a celebri-bubble and hence find motherhood just peachy-perfect. All it does is make us either feel guilty about ourselves and/or envious of others. How is that helpful or entertaining?
OK, I've said more than my fair share in this discussion...
But if you like a little crabbiness, let me shamefully plug one more time:
http://www.cookiemag.com/magazine/blogs/crabmommy
I'm presently hoarding my kiddie cold meds and trying not to get too drunk! Cheers!
posted by : crabmommy on 10/25/2007 at 3:10 PM Flag For Abuse
