Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie’s kids are running amok

[badgers!]

With that many kids and traveling so frequently, I'd be surprised if they weren't running amok. As for sleeping in the same bed, meh, they're little, lots of kids do that. Mine end up in bed almost every night too. Eventually they stop. How many high school kids crawl in bed with their parents?

Dirty, disheveled kids don't always equal bad parent. I've tied back my 2 year old's hair and she pulls the ponytail right out again and it's in her face. Very annoying. Combine that with the fact that kids are messy in general and sometimes spill things on themselves while you're out and about. It happens. I can't call bad parenting just based on how a kid looks at any given moment.

I, too, think they need to settle down somewhere more permanent for the sake of the kids. Provide them with some stability. Let them go to school and make friends and all that. I've also questioned AJ's sanity as well. Who in their right mind thinks it's OK to let your 14 y/o daughter have a live-in boyfriend? WTF?

[Novice]

Originally Posted by nana55

Angelina makes her mom out to be this angel, but I doubt it. She changed her name to a French name and tried to convince people she was French. First off she was born and raised in the states and her mom was French-Canadian, big difference. So Angelina is just a big fat snobby classicist who obviously thinks "parenting" is below her.

While Aj always remember to mention that her pa left & the effects of that affair on her mother, she never (to my knowledge) has admitted that her mother had a 12 yr relationship after her dad left with Bill Day - its widely documented but she never brings it up. Marcia also remarried later in life... something else that is never mentioned.... She also had an affair with a man called Allan Mezo.

AJ talks about how difficult she found her parent's split... they split in 1976, and she was born in June 1975.....

Originally Posted by badgers!

With that many kids and traveling so frequently, I'd be surprised if they weren't running amok. As for sleeping in the same bed, meh, they're little, lots of kids do that. Mine end up in bed almost every night too. Eventually they stop. How many high school kids crawl in bed with their parents?

Dirty, disheveled kids don't always equal bad parent. I've tied back my 2 year old's hair and she pulls the ponytail right out again and it's in her face. Very annoying. Combine that with the fact that kids are messy in general and sometimes spill things on themselves while you're out and about. It happens. I can't call bad parenting just based on how a kid looks at any given moment.

I, too, think they need to settle down somewhere more permanent for the sake of the kids. Provide them with some stability. Let them go to school and make friends and all that. I've also questioned AJ's sanity as well. Who in their right mind thinks it's OK to let your 14 y/o daughter have a live-in boyfriend? WTF?

We were never allowed to sleep in our parent's bed. Not even if we had a nightmare. Not all parents allow their kids in their bed.... just sayin'

[MontanaMama]

I agree, long term, that nomadic lifestyle could present problems for children, but don't you think they have tutors? Fairly steady nannies? They don't seem all that isolated or unsocialized. There's a big difference (I think) between permissiveness in allowing self-expression in toddlers and letting your 14 y/os boyfriend to move in.

[B.C.]

Originally Posted by Beeyotch

I know kids can adapt and are incredibly resilient, but this sort of long term effect is exactly what I'd worry about. It depends on the personality and preferences of the kid, but I think having that kind of stability is very important for most kids. I hated moving around so often as a kid--I still do--and think that definitely affected my development, not always in a positive way.

I agree. I moved as a child every few months up until the age of 10. Being shy it was hard for me to make friends. We didn't have a choice, my parents moved us to where the work was.

[badgers!]

Originally Posted by Novice

We were never allowed to sleep in our parent's bed. Not even if we had a nightmare. Not all parents allow their kids in their bed.... just sayin'

I know. A number of my kids playmates' parents feel the same way. To each their own. I guess the idea isn't weird or inappropriate to me because some of my earliest and fondest memories are of crawling into my parents bed and snuggling. They only kicked me out every now and then and at some point, I stopped on my own, but I don't remember when.

I don't mind when my boogers crawl into bed for the same reason. My 4 year old hardly ever stops for a hug, but he'll snuggle half asleep when he stumbles in at 3 or 4am. I'll admit though, I'd be irritated if they were in my bed every night from the time I went to bed. Hubby and I need our alone time, ya know.

[BITTER]

Originally Posted by Novice

We were never allowed to sleep in our parent's bed. Not even if we had a nightmare. Not all parents allow their kids in their bed.... just sayin'

We did, but it was very seldom, and usually with my mom only. Dad didn't wanna make sissies out of us...oh well, too late for me HAHAHAHA!

But we slept wild, tossing and turning,and Dad didn't like that. In the summer, they'd move our mattress into their room where the A/C was. But that was it. Nightmares usually meant my exasperated father coming into the room, telling us we didn't see a monster and were only having bad dreams and that he'd fix us a nice breakfast in the morning and to go the hell back to sleep.

[tkdgirl]

Look for Mad and Pax to release a weather balloon and rap video within a year.

[rollo]

^ Haha, yes it's not that bad.

The chaotic household bit seems semi-normal to me. I have more problems with Angelina pretending she is helping with their colouring books because you just know she is not.

And WTF someone mentioned missing teef. That's normal too.

[MoodyJenny86]

Gig is up bitch. Give it up.

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by rollo

^ Haha, yes it's not that bad.

The chaotic household bit seems semi-normal to me. I have more problems with Angelina pretending she is helping with their colouring books because you just know she is not.

And WTF someone mentioned missing teef. That's normal too.

Not for a 3 yr. old! When the kids start knocking each others' teefies out it's time to lay down the law!

[Sarzy]

You can fall over and knock your teeth out. It happens. Especially very active kids running all about the place.

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by Sarzy

You can fall over and knock your teeth out. It happens. Especially very active kids running all about the place.

Lol, I've got a couple of kids of my own who were very active and two little nieces, so I'm aware things can happen. But teeth getting knocked out is a little extreme. It takes a lot of force to knock out a tooth that's not ready to come out, whether it's from a fall or some other means. Not a single kid of my acquaintance has ever had a baby tooth knocked out prematurely, but a friend of my son had a permanent tooth knocked out playing Varsity football! When the kids are playing on that level violence there are problems!

[Novice]

Originally Posted by BITTER

We did, but it was very seldom, and usually with my mom only. Dad didn't wanna make sissies out of us...oh well, too late for me HAHAHAHA!

But we slept wild, tossing and turning,and Dad didn't like that. In the summer, they'd move our mattress into their room where the A/C was. But that was it. Nightmares usually meant my exasperated father coming into the room, telling us we didn't see a monster and were only having bad dreams and that he'd fix us a nice breakfast in the morning and to go the hell back to sleep.

See! I KNEW you were my secret brother.... even if we grew up on different continents, etc... It was usualy my mother that did that, but if we puked it would be dad...

Originally Posted by Sasha

Lol, I've got a couple of kids of my own who were very active and two little nieces, so I'm aware things can happen. But teeth getting knocked out is a little extreme. It takes a lot of force to knock out a tooth that's not ready to come out, whether it's from a fall or some other means. Not a single kid of my acquaintance has ever had a baby tooth knocked out prematurely, but a friend of my son had a permanent tooth knocked out playing Varsity football! When the kids are playing on that level violence there are problems!

... and this is why I thought that piercing a baby's ears was a baaaad move....

[southernbelle]

Originally Posted by Novice

See! I KNEW you were my secret brother.... even if we grew up on different continents, etc... It was usualy my mother that did that, but if we puked it would be dad...


... and this is why I thought that piercing a baby's ears was a baaaad move....

Yeah. Unfortunately they had to- Maddox demanded it.

[Novice]

Yeah, I read that too.... Having a child running the household is all kinds of wrong imo.