Unprofessional Parenting

I had to laugh when I watched a short clip this weekend on celebrity parenting advice. It had a few brief interview questions of various Hollywood types (from who knows when) about how they manage to juggle parenting and their oh-so-busy careers. I always find these questions stupid because they are asked of people who A) Can usually bring their kids to work with them wherever they go and B) Can pay an army of highly skilled professionals to be with their kids when they happen to not be around.

After the montage of beautiful, Botoxed, and surgically altered mommies presented their “real world” advice, the interview turned to an actress/former Ms. Universe who has two children of her own. Watching the male interviewer comment for the next four minutes about her beauty was mildly nauseating but her responses were just about as stupid as he was.

Her parenting tips were as follows:
Time management: Try to get things done while your kids are in school - this is very helpful for her when she schedules her day and it gives her time to get to the gym everyday.

Spending time with kids: Do active things with your kids. She likes to take her kids to the park because it promotes exercise and good health.

Eating healthy (this was my favorite): She says, “buy organic, it’s better for you and it tastes the same.” This was the sum of her advice on how to be sure your kids eat healthy - yes folks - it is that easy!

She also wanted us mommies to know that it’s very important to wash our makeup off at the end of everyday and to use plenty of moisturizer.

So there you go - brilliant and oh-so-helpful parenting advice from former Ms. Universe. I was going to post a link to the video but quite frankly it was a waste of six minutes of my life so I’d feel guilty inflicting it on everyone else.  You’ll just have to trust me on this (and thank me).