You know how people are creeped out by people who breastfeed? I'm creeped out by those who don't, and in fact think breastfeeding is disgusting and unnatural. THAT'S criminal!

Has anyone ever read the 'Tales of the Unexpected' 'Royal Jelly' story by Roald Dahl? This smacks of it!

sundaeg1rl

Awww...Leah too? The Beckham's & The Smith's are also lost souls..say it isn't so!!! GEEEEEZ!

SanityCheck

Well um yeah a 3 1/2 yr old running a house please my son is 2 and thinks he can run this one I don't think so. The bottle feeding thing well they have the money to bring them to the dentist but why put your kids teeth and mouth though pain. My son was broke of the bottle when he was 1 1/2. I think these celebs who practice scienology are brainwashed and think they are doing right but in all they are doing wrong. Those 2 kids need to be off the bottle. And to sit and call your kid a pain in the a$$ what the heck come one Remini poor choice of words.

babygirl05

I thought it was hilarious. I think she's a great mom she is funny, funny, funny. You try raising a lil "love muffin" -- it ain't easy. Let's give her a break, huh?

gravytoss

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ShabnumBurlington

I am married to a scientologist - I do not practice the religion but do know some of the basic beliefs. 1. Nowhere does L. Ron Hubbard say NOT to breastfeed. A friend of my husband was a high ranking official of the church in Clearwater and she breast fed many times right in front of LRH. His teachings do encourage the formula though. 2. The formula recipe does not call for honey - it uses corn syrup. The barley is high in protein and she never had any of those issues that some babies have where the formula needs to be mixed with cereal to satisfy the child. 3. I used the formula (after research and consulting with my pediatrician) from the time my daughter came home from the hospital until she turned one year old when I switched to regular milk as all pediatricians suggest. The concern was the corn syrup but I was never told not to use it. I did supplement with vitamin drops but my neighbor used the same vitamins with Enfamil. 4. She was weaned from any bottle at 15 mos again at the suggestion of my pediatrician. 5. My pediatrician is not a scientologist (catholic actually) but is the most popular and busiest pediatrician in my town of 125,000. She does support a parent's need to raise their child in their own way with medical guidance. 6. My daughter is now 20 - she had no teeth problems other than braces just like 3 out of every 5 kids in America. She had no colicky issues and was and is very healthy all through her life. She is not underweight or overweight. I said all that to say this - you can't believe everything you read. Experience things for yourself and only then can you say if it is right for you and your family. If a lot of you heard about the formula without "Scientology" attached - you wouldn't think twice about it. Lisa

ShaktiPaddum

Many years ago, I was a Scientologist, so I can speak from direct knowledge of reading what Hubbard actually wrote and what Scientologists actually did in those days (the 70's).

What he wrote was that if you can't breastfeed, there was this formula you could make (and he claimed it went way back in history). The formula given (in the 70s) consisted of barley water, milk, and corn syrup. He knew that honey was toxic to babies and did not advise it for babies.

Suri is past the age where honey is potentially toxic. IMO (and this is IMO and not Scientology), she needs to come off the bottle to a tippy cup or, better, a glass.

In the 70s, the Scientologist-parents I knew fell into two groups: the ones who were in the Sea Org (a 24/7-million-year-contract as a CofS staff member) and the parents who had a regular life with jobs and homes (hence a life where their involvement with the CofS was as a paying student or preclear, as well as contact with the non-church-world). Those who were Sea Org members had very little time with their children who were kept together and monitored by so-called "nannies," other SO-members whose job was basically baby-sitting. Family time was minimal for most SO members, although higher-ups got more of the "normal life" time with their kids. When you were a SO member, the SO owned your time pretty much 24/7 and you were committed to "clearing the planet" pretty much full time. These folks had very little personal time and were basically giving their children over to the nannies to raise. So who could possibly breast-feed in that environment? Enter the barley formula! At that time, it was made with barley and reconstituted dried milk. Much cheaper.

Now those who were not SO members were responsible for supporting themselves and their families and hence had paying jobs. Those who made a decent living were likely to breakstfeed (and the Scientologist doctors - pediatricians and OB/GYNs -absolutely encouraged nursing). Non-SO families ran the gamut from low-income to wealthy.

CofS staff members varied... some were at poverty-level and some had other sources of money to live on, so the kids were cared-for accordingly. Some of the CofS orgs are SO-run, such as the Celebrity Center of L.A. that Tom Cruise is part of. The CCs seem to be much more aware of PR and image (no surprise) and so their staff were always welll-groomed. You didn't want to see the behind-the-scenes staffers who had no other resources than the bare-minimum the Church provided. The ones who had children were stretched even thinner.

Suri and other children of wealthy Scientologists are in a totally different category. Katie could have breastfed (and I hope she did at least the first few months). Barley formula was meant for those who couldn't breastfeed, mainly because they had to work as either SO or staff-members or who had to work out in the real world. Unless she had a medical reason for not nursing Suri the first six months, there is really no Scientological reason for having her on barley formula.

Since I left the CofS, I got married, birthed two babies. With my first baby, when I went back to work, I pumped milk for a while without much success and the baby couldn't keep down commercial baby formula... we ended up using barley formula (using raw unhomogenized milk and corn syrup)and it was the only thing she chould keep down. That was recommended by our pediatrician, who was one of the two recommended to the Scientology community at the time. She had been my gyno back when I was a Scientologist and I stayed with her after I left the Church.

So I hope this gives you some information from someone who has BTDT but isn't a member of the cult anymore.

kasparcat

Sad to say, whatever is in that bottle is the LEAST of Suri's problems.

NotReadyForPrimeTime

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RoseNubulate

Just so you all know, I watched that episode of Rachael Ray and Leah had switched her daughter to water "babas" at night (because she heard it was bad for her to have milk at night). One step in the right direction??

LilacLover

As far as I am concerned, anyone who raises a child the way these 2 are parenting should be sterilized. UGH! The fact that abottle should stop at 12 months. The fact that breast milk is the healthiest way to feed your child and the fact that honey is the worst thing for any child under 2 is a fcat. Get real you fools. **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

WashingtonAgrius

You NEVER give young children honey as it can cause brain damage. You would think that these wealthy moms would read the pediatric literature in the media or talk to their PEDS as this is commonplace knowledge. Read."What to Expect IN The First Years" ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

GuidoCheeky

@GiffordSeneca: So to spell it out for you, no child that age, of any religion, should be getting that much calories from a bottle. Whole foods, preferably from a local source should be that child's main source of calories. And while others here have recommended liquor or smokes, no one recommended she be fed mccrappy food.

SanFranBetsu

What a messed up thing to do to a kid. I never let my kids drink regular milk before the age of 1. All they would drink was formula and breast milk. Not only that, but I've had my son off the bottle since he was 1 and my daughter was weened at 11 months old. And Leah Remini, saying that she pretty much acted so surprised when the pediatrician told her bottles were bad past the age of 1 or 2... You're a mother, you should know what's good for your baby and what's not. If you think that your daughter having the bottle at age 3 is bad, TAKE THE DAMNED THING FROM HER, DON'T LET HER HAVE IT! INSTEAD OF CALLING YOUR DAUGHTER A PAIN IN THE ASS, WHY DON'T YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF AND YOUR HUSBAND. YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING TO HER BEING A PAIN IN THE ASS. And as far as LRH's formula mix goes, yes, honey is toxic to a baby. Also, you don't give a baby homogenized milk before the age of 1. It could make a baby really sick.

mommyof2_1980

earth to leah remini, katie and tom and all you other Scientology idiots.honey can kill a child under one. are you trying to kill your kids. also leah your kid is a brat. 3 1/2 and still on a baba get a back bone sister.i love you on king of queens but this is just ridiculous. learn to say no! or when your child becomes a teenager you will be really sorry you didnt. oh and way to go with ruining your daughters chances of making any friends if she keeps sucking down those "babas".

bubblez4ever92

1. I am not a Scientologist, I think they are weird, but no weirder than Christians or Mormons. 2.Has the baby been examined. Is she healthy or not? You never say in this article. You just assume she is not. 3.There is nothing unhealthy in that mix. Barley is the perfect food, Milk is good for you. Too much honey, bad for the teeth though...then again..you never say HOW MUCH honey is in the mix. 4. I notice how many people jump on your bandwagon without critically analyzing what you have said, just because you used the word "Scientology." 5. Yeh time to get her off that bottle and onto a healthy diet of McBurgers and French Fries **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

GiffordSeneca

So I'm chatting up my mom on Mother's Day (she's in California while I'm on the other side of the world in Oz) and we work our way around earthquakes, tornadoes, politics, and finally land smack onto the scientology baby formula deal here and she says... "what's in it?" and I reply "umm I think it's like - barley water, something else and honey" and she perks up with "Oh! You mean mead!"

So I've looked it up and fallen off my chair! Sure enough the drink that made "druids run naked thru the wuids" is one ingredient off this baby formula!

Well no wonder the little tots don't want to give up their babas!

Sophie! Tell your mom you want yeast! Then you can play Viking, too!

MessyMortal

@ColbertNation:
what I like even better is her/ her husband's belief that bad parenting is all okay in the name of "it's all out of love." He clearly recognizes that he and his wife are making a muck of it but isn't willing to do anything about it.. spineless

fembot

@kylo4: Yeah, it's crazy, but not that crazy considering there are millions of people in the world who believe that a man who lived 2000 years ago was the son of God, walked on water, turned water into wine, and that when he died he was resurrected. Also, that the earth was created only 4000 years ago Oh, and God impregnated a virgin woman by magic.

Other religions don't sound so crazy when you consider what the "normal" religions believe in.

iAlreadyHateYou

Actually the medical suggestion is you don't feed RAW honey to children under 1 years of age. The urban myth came from a misquoted scientist in a parenting mag back in the 1970's.

Doesn't change the fact that that kid is a bratastic mess, breat milk is the healthiest thing for babies and that Scientology has some wackadoodle ideas when it comes to parenting.

freakalina

I had to stop reading after it said that Hubbard advised that children never be breastfed. This religion will never ever get the benefit of the doubt from me again. That is insane.

violetanns

@Tiger_Tanaka:

well try not to be so glib the next time.

we kitties need to stick together ennyhoo!

Lunarkitty

@Lunarkitty: Dude, that was so yesterday. I apologize, however, for I was quite grumpy as I did not have enough of my honey-barley-water-percoset shake.

Tiger_Tanaka

@Tiger_Tanaka:

1. shaddap ya tool

2. Q: what's brown and sticky?
A: a stick

There now, I have been both judgemental AND funny. Sheesh who peed in YOUR cornflakes today?

Lunarkitty

@disinterested 3rd party: I love cigarettes. Looking forward to bumming them off my tween daughter. Peace.

Tiger_Tanaka

@Tiger_Tanaka: Truce, Tiger. As we can see the rearing of children is a radioactive issue. Everyone thinks they know how best to raise their own kids and invariably your closest friends will disagree.

For instance all our friends think we let our son start smoking way too early, but hey, it's his life you know?

disinterested 3rd party

@MessyMortal:

I agree. Sugar (especially corn syrup) is highly addictive, and can cause extreme mood swings, headaches, dizzyness, nausea, etc. You think she's a terror now? Just wait until you try to ween her off those bottles.

Smirk

and now that I've actually *watched the clip* and banged my head on the floor in disbelief...

...considering how much it costs to have a child these days you'd think more parents would take better care of them :)

MessyMortal

@MsMerlin: Corn syrup is addictive. Honey has been linked to juvenile diabetes. Good grief don't these people read?

MessyMortal

Man...I lost all respect for Leah, who I always thought was a "kick ass cunt"!!!!

How you gonna let your CHILD run your house and your life???

She needs to take some lessons from me...that little girl would be off the bottle and bringing me breakfast in bed inside of a week!!!

Lala11_7

Don't lose sight of the fact that we are talking about the 'bride' of a 'man' who is a dyslexic high-school dropout who still cannot read.

Teeny Tom Cruise bought into the $cientology scam in order to get over his inabilities and ended up multiplying his failings and amplifying his stupidity by trumpeting the dimestore philosophy of LRH.

Instead of having interviews with this boob, Okrah would have done better to have staged a televised intervention and tried to talk some sense to the poor delusional man.

This evaporation of a man - and now his pretend 'family - is becoming harder to make fun of.

It has become truly pathetic.

FlangeSqueal

I'm not seeing the problem here; I drink six bottles a night myself. If she can hold her liquor, what's the difference?

raincoaster

What a cute chubby little monster!!
oh, and that kid needs an ass-whuppin'.
and when did chubby monster rimini marry
richard simmons kid brother?

StevieRayHalen

Oh Leah you know she'll go all Mommie Dearest on your sorry nouveau riche mercury glassed great roomed ass!

saxon212

@Sweet Panda Love: I have jam. Is your person free Tuesdays and do they have a leaf blower?

Tiger_Tanaka

Leah Remini needs to have her vageeny revoked.

Any parent who refuses to place limits on their child's behavior is a bad parent. Period. I say this as the mother of a bright, imaginative, and very willful four year old daughter who would run things in a heartbeat if I let her.

But I don't, because it's a parent's job to prepare their child to be a successful, functional adult, and that means understanding that the world doesn't revolve around them. The Reminis are not doing their job, and I feel just fine sitting in judgment of them. After all, they chose to go public with what shitty parents they are.

As for LRH's baby obesity formula, any parent stupid enough to feed that garbage to their baby instead of the food their mother's body makes specifically for them (or infant formula designed to mimic that food) deserves public ridicule, at the very least.

Tits McGee

I don't have children, but I do let a three year old run my house...she never pays the cable bill on time, and it's always smeared with jam.

Sweet Panda Love

@disinterested 3rd party: True. We all can't be Sweet Panda Love. Maybe I should switch to Gawker.

Tiger_Tanaka

This is why I'm not breeding. I'd be so distressed over losing my life that my kid would run around, mouth off, and rule the house. I'd be too lazy to discipline. My kid would be so unruly that I'd want to drown it.

Rather than spend an eternity in prison, I'm staying childless.

trashywilma

All this stuff about "going back and time" and "seeing heaven" makes me wonder how any of these people can seriously support this cult.

kylo4

@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: RE: Scitentologists believe children are adult "thetans" housed in child bodies.

Ah, that explains a lot. So Tom Cruise is down to six bottles a night?

@MissPeacock: Well at least that discourages Leah and hubby from having more little princesses, eh???

Nunaurbiz

I read a story in Us (yes, I read it on the can) about Leah's appearance on the show, and she says that Sophia also sleeps in the bed with mommy and daddy and refuses not to. Sigh.

MissPeacock

@Tiger_Tanaka: Yeah, you've been a riot....

disinterested 3rd party

@Lizawithazee: Fwor. Princess Bride! ...YES!

Benny

In conclusion, does being a Scientologist make you a bad parent, or are the two mutually exclusive?

Seems to me The Remini's (yeah, I said it) would be poor parental guidance units either way.

CourageousCoward

The only thing that made sense in this is when she admits that watching a Disney movie compromises one's integrity.

Husband- what is happening in here isn't because of "love." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Lizawithazee

@valarmorghulis: None to smart to begin with THAT crew. Especially if they swallow (heee) Hubbard's bullsquick.

sybann

@disinterested 3rd party: Ummmm, I guess I miss the old days, when people used to be funny when they were judgmental - that's how we used to do it here.

Tiger_Tanaka

@Tiger_Tanaka: I have kids, and...no. The comments here are pretty spot on, because Leah Remini is fucking delusional if she thinks she's being a good parent to her child.

padraigin

@c-tas: My husband has a theory that Le Vey was responsible for L.Ron's demise. Probably disolved his remains in lye in true psychopathic fashion.

SanFranBetsu

Also, someone needs to punch her husband in the face. He's enabling her bad tendencies, and doesn't appear to be a partner in raising their daughter. They've totally got one of those "Mommy's Little Princess" things going on, and that can only lead to the world's cattiest/bitchiest teenage daughter. This girl is going to be an absolute nightmare at age 14--they'll look back to her childhood as the golden years.

Dave J.

Did any of us see the show about Leah planning and having her wedding?

During that show Leah was a self-centered, controlling, ego maniac.
Insert 'fruit doesn't fall far ..' saying here.

itmustbeken

I'm pretty sure L.Ron was partnered up originally with Anton LeVey from the church of satan...then they had a fallingout over power/control and L.Ron started his own thing. On a side note, I went to a school in Europe which was an offshoot of CEDU which came from Sinanon, well the point is, the "camp' that Katie Holmes was sent to ( star mag ) well, we had "workshops" that sounded alot like what Star said she did, the sleep deprivation, minimal food, purging your secrets. Some weird shit was being created out in LA in the seventies.

c-tas

So, Reuters reported today that breastfed kids are 5% smarter than kids fed on real formula (not this shit), which probably takes yet another 5% off the IQ.

[www.reuters.com]

So this means that Scientologists want their kids to be too stupid to figure out they're being raised in a cult. Big surprise.

Mediahohoho

@Tiger_Tanaka: Ummmm Tiger? That's what we do here.

That aside, she blatantly says that her kid drinks six bottles a night. I could have judged her on that without the video evidence.

disinterested 3rd party

@Tiger_Tanaka:Yea, well I have a lot of kids, I am not their bitch, and I know what the hell I'm talking about. Guess what, even if the other commentors don't, they are on the right track!

SanFranBetsu

Can you get away with anything as long as it's in the name of religion?

Josef Fritzl should have just said that incest is one of the cornerstones of his beliefs. He would have gotten away with it, i'm sure.

ColbertNation

@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: This is also why children are spoken to like adults, begin the process of becoming clear at a young age and are virtually undisciplined. @A Nooner For Nina: You are not the only thinking this. Honestly, I might not think she is fully in it, but she is profiting from it somehow.

Artful Slinger says "ask my log anything!"

@disinterested 3rd party: I guess I'm just not judgmental enough to slam someone else's parenting skills based on two minutes of excerpted video from a daytime talk show, combined with hearsay about what she does, in fact, feed her child. But that's just me.

Tiger_Tanaka

@Tiger_Tanaka: Elaborate, Tiger.

I have kids and I tell them no. And they cry and throw tantrums. Then they get it together and move on. Never saying no to your kids isn't spoiling them, it's spoiling yourself.

disinterested 3rd party

What a little troll they're raising. Should make for exciting teen years, what with the little tot's love of sucking.

Numerous studies have proven that breast feeding is the best thing for a baby. That said, that toddler is no baby. Time to move onto whole foods, but please set boundaries, Leah. I'd hate to see your little monster on an episode of Maury with the other 70 pound 3 year olds.

NoWireHangers

@bonsaiiiiii:No Sippycups, they are evil machinations of Xenu. It's a well known fact that many Thetans were holding their sippy cups for dear life when Xenu plunged their DC10-like spaceships into the volcanos. And you see what a big load of help those cups were then, eh?

SheLaughs

This is why they make sippy cups Leah Remini.

bonsaiiiiii

Amazing how one requires a license to do just about anything these days except have children.

TurdBlossom

Any belief that preaches "breastfeeding = bad" is automatically retarded, IMO. And I'm not one of those titnazis (in fact, I'm not having children) who rants against formula. But to say it's bad MAKES NO SENSE. IT'S THE WHOLE REASON WHY WE HAVE BREASTS, YOU MORONS.

I'm sorry, but the Co$ makes me all caps-locky screamy.

louveciennes

@Kali Mama: I wonder how high her cognitive dissonance is what with being clear and all.

You're learning their language. GASP - are you becoming one of them?

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

va-GENIE?!?!?

leave it to the scientologists to not be able to say vagina. oprah anyone?

ahem.

A Nooner For Nina

Wow. When I have kids, they will never, ever pull bullshit like that. Nor will they have honey, 'cause earth to wackos, it can kill little kids.

katekate

@Dave J.: @Kali Mama: @disinterested 3rd party: Scitentologists believe children are adult "thetans" housed in child bodies.

So they let them do alot of stuff, excuse me - get away with alot of stuff. As long as they keep expelling those alien ghosts with their emeters and "auditing."

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

Scientology is creepy, and I'm not a fan of King Of Queens, but some of these comments - most of you do not have kids, do you?

Right, enjoy your cosmos while you can. Later you can look back and laugh when you realize everything you thought about raising kids was completely fucking wrong (and that you are in fact, just like your parents)

Tiger_Tanaka

Ever heard of the word "no", dumbass? She's probably one of those idiots who still pushes their 6 year old in a stroller at the mall. It's not Sophia's fault she's a pain the ass. It's mom and dad's.

disinterested 3rd party

@traumamama: Seriously. I especially love her little sarcastic monologue in mimicking critique. My kid is the exact same age, and there are RARELY situations where I phrase things like "do you want to...?". I'm sorry what? You're the mom, you tell her to brush her teeth, not ask. You're a 3 year old's bitch. I wonder how high her cognitive dissonance is what with being clear and all.

Kali Mama

So now the 'C'o$ has improved upon breast milk? And the sad part is that that is the lesser evil compared to Hubbard's toxic stupidity with which these children will be indoctrinated.

Whiteboyfunfark

"We're hearing that that's not good for her."

Seriously? You couldn't figure out for yourself that it's not normal for a 3 year old to drink 6 bottles a night?

Kids do not only function better with limits, Leah, they WANT limits. Strange as it may seem, kids actually don't want you to let them do everything, because it makes the world seem boundless and kind of scary. You don't have to become a nazi overnight, but, c'mon, say "no" once in a while.

Dave J.

So, they're now literally and figuratively drinking the Kool-Aid?

ModernMindOfM

I visited Ancient Rome once. Nice place... wouldn't want to raise my kids there.

Benny

Supernanny Jo needed in the Remini household.

CorporateTool

Right, because I'm sure the ancient Romans didn't breastfeed. Riiiiiiight.

What a bunch of crap.

sarathelaundress

6 bottles a night at age 3?? Um, Leah, you are officially a really shitty parent.

And whatever happened to the Leah I know and love? I mean, it's like the "Saved by the Bell" summer episodes never even happened. Talk about disillusioning.

Dave J.

They should cut that little porker down to 5 bottles a day.

HowardRoarkLaughed

Uh, who wants to break the news to the cult members that Rome FELL cos they did a LOT of things wrong!!

Nunaurbiz

Cult or no cult...is she TRYING to raise a brat? Because she is following THAT recipe to the letter. Get a spine, lady, or that baby bottle will be the least of your worries in 10 years.

traumamama

@Coldwine: it's known as defective by design.

valarmorghulis

Ya know, do whatever you want to with your own stupid life, but when you start endangering your children like this, they should be taken away from you.

When is C0$ going to be treated as the criminal organization it really is?

Ugh, sorry for ranting, but kids in cults is the most disturbing thing for me.

hummingpenguin

Wait till Leah has to listen to Sophia's screams from a pediatric periodontist chair! I'm guessing she already needs baby root canal. She wouldn't be the first to have to endure this because the parent's don't have the cubes to take the bottle away.

SanFranBetsu

@valarmorghulis: I suppose that's so they don't develop the analytical skills to question all the cult crap they grow up with!

Not to mention that fact that honey is a big no-no for babies under one year because of the danger of botulism.

Coldwine

...and honey is bad because it contains the botulism bacterium. Stupid scientologists!
[www.mayoclinic.com]

Mabimab

Honey can be toxic to infants. I hope that's just an error. (I think they use corn syrup--not that that's healthy, either.)

MsMerlin

Not breastfeeding huh? Well, there's an average of 5.6 IQ points shaved off of every Scientoligispawn.

valarmorghulis

First of all, Leah Remini and her charmingly fey husband are REALLY crappy parents. And that house is beyond tacky. She should count her blessings for King of Queens. Hope that syndication cash keeps rollin' in lest the Jackie Collins dream will die.

hhpeterson13