"Material Mom" has an interesting set of standards

Published on October 16, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In Entertainment

According to the news link above, Madonna has a policy against ice cream. And TV.

Although she doesn't say why TV is verbotten, one would have to assume that it has something to do with either a) the values portrayed on many television shows, or the commercialism that TV sells as necessity in our society. Either way, it's slightly amusing.

Has the material mom suddenly turned prude, and decided that the values she paraded around in her book Sex are not the values she wants to be the focus of her child's life, despite her insistence in repeated interviews that other parents should "loosen up" and use those values for their own children? Has Kabballah opened her eyes to the error of her ways? (if it has, she sure doesn't seem to have a problem touring and singing those hits in front of large audiences for pay). Or has she, simply, learned a vital lesson that all parents learn at one time or another: that those who have no kids really don't have as much of a clue about parenting as they THINK they do.

It's amusing to watch, but I think there are a lot of parents out there that Madonna owes an apology. She, like many of us, did her best parenting when she didn't have kids of her own.

Comments

bakerstreet

on Oct 16, 2005

And how convienent to have handlers to enforce all those rules for you, too, I bet. She can basically shit on the modern media, and then tell us to police our kids while her staff does her policing for her...

citahellion

on Oct 16, 2005

I have a no-TV rule too, but it's because my kid is under 2, and I don't want it to stunt her mental development.

bakerstreet

on Oct 17, 2005

Visual challenges can actually enhance a child's development. I don't think the last 2 generations growing up figuring our "which of these don't belong" and learning to read, etc., are stunted.

foreverserenity

on Oct 17, 2005

I find it amusing that she suddenly have all these "values" now that she's a mom. Some people really have no thought for such things until they have children themselves. It's interesting though that she preaches a lot about things she doesn't want her children to do or see or read, yet she still does the very same things when she performs and in what she endorses. And I do love her music, and still do. I just think she's a bit confused at times with what she says and do.

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