parenting
Flotsam & Jetsam
Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?
5:01AM Hamilton Nolan | Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception”. Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modelling agency, for sweet, sweet money. More »
‘Miley Day’ Tradition Ends in Bloodshed For Billy Ray Cyrus
8:18AM STV | We’ve had an early glimpse at the joys to come later this week on The Tyra Banks Show, where the host will spend Friday with birthday girl Miley Cyrus and family at yet another Miley fête hosted by Disney. Beyond the nuggets of insight into Miley’s poo-scrubbing child-labour days (”I worked at this place called Sparkles Cleaning Service and I cleaned houses, I was like 11. … I can clean toilet bowls”), however, the true revelations begin when Tyra corners Billy Ray Cyrus into a discussion of “Miley Day” — a tradition of parental indulgence during which, says Cyrus, “whatever she said she wanted to do that day we was gonna do it, no matter what it was…” We’ll let Billy Ray take it from there in the accompanying video; let it suffice to say they’ll never again be allowed to sit beside each other in church. [Tyra Banks Show] More »
Jolie-Pitt Violence Primer Teaches Orphans The Difference Between ‘Wanted’ And Rwanda
9:50AM STV | The responsibility of raising a veritable petting zoo of exotic children would be burdensome for any parents, but to do so while toplining four or five studio pictures per year is just thankless. Especially when those movies are fraught with the kind of violence and distress saturating the work of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the latter of whom walks us through the delicate duty of parsing real brutality and war from the pop-culture pugilism of Mummy and Daddy’s films: More »
