Tom and Katie criticized again

[Ree]

This latest round of criticism comes because Suri was seen drinking from a bottle on the set of Katie's new movie.

Suri is 3 years old.

Critics are saying she's too old to be on a bottle, and should have been weaned long ago...at 9 months old, in fact.

They're also criticizing her because Suri was seen playing with an empty Starbuck's coffee cup.

Give me a fucking break.

First of all, why should we care, but secondly, I know lots of children who still drink from a bottle at 3 years old.

My granddaughter started drinking from a sippy cup before she was a year old, and shortly after that, was completely off the bottle.

My daughter's boyfriend has a 3 year old daughter, and while I personally feel she should be off the bottle, she still drinks from one.

I just don't understand why everything they do as parents becomes a subject for public scorn, just because they're slightly wacky.

Also, as for the Starbuck's cup thing, big hairy deal. I have pictures of my granddaughter playing with a takeout coffee cup.

So, should Suri be off the botlle?

Should we really care?

[jackfaire]

Exactly. I know people who judge celebrities all the time and then even determine what they will or will not watch based on behavior that has nothing to do with their jobs.

Guess what people I don't care I watch a movie for the good writing, acting, etc. What they do outside of the office I don't care.

[BroomJockey]

Should we really care?

No, but cult of celebrity says everything a famous person does needs to be examined in exquisite detail.

[Ree]

Well, it's sickening.

When all is said and done, they're just parents trying to do the best they can for their child. They're going to make mistakes. All parents do.

I guess maybe Tom brought some of it on himself by being such a vocal know-it-all when it comes to Scientology, but I get sick of it.

I just get tired of opening my "news" page, and seeing stories like that in the headlines.

[blas87]

People are still surprised and outraged by weird celebrities doing weird things?

[kiwi]

I weaned from the bottle at 18 months but I would NOT give up my sippy cup until I started going to school. Everyone is an expert at raising children (or so they would have you believe) and they always think their method is better.
I personally think Tom is a creep but as long as he is providing food, clothing and shelter then people should stfu about how "terrible" this is or how "wrong" that is.

At least she wasnt playing with a fake ciggerette and a empty bottle of gin.

[blas87]

Or chugging from daddy's can of beer at toddler age, like all the Wisconsin kids were

[Peppergirl]

<hangs head in shame> My youngest was damned near three when I FINALLY got him off the bottle. I was embarassed and frustrated, and never allowed him to have the bottle in public. lol

Kidding aside, it was horrible. My husband worked 60 hours a week at the time and I worked 50, and (granted, we waited too long) he would scream all night for it till we gave in. Manipulation? Sure..but I fell for it hook, line and sinker because I was sleep deprived. I finally had to take a week off from work, and my husband and older son stayed at my parents, just to wean him. Ridiculous, I know - but that's what it took.


So, although I think Tom is a freak of the highest order, I refuse to judge them for the bottle thing (or the coffee cup, which is fucking stupid).

Ya know, judgement of parenting back when MY kids were little was bad enough, but with all the PC-police and helicopter parenting going on now, I don't think I could deal. Seriously.

[LadyMage]

oh dear a kid does not want to get off a bottle at three, and plays with random stuff she finds on the ground call the fricking cops *facepalms*

unless the parents are neglecting or abusing the kid I don't think media should be making a big deal over this stuff, but then the media now is mostly about ratings and kids of celeberties get ratings

[RecoveringKinkoid]

She probably IS off the bottle. However, she could be drinking out of it for any number of reasons.

1. Like both my daughter and my nephew, she might find it fun to drink out of a bottle sometimes. My kid sometimes asks to drink from one...she thinks it's fun and different, and probably reminds her about how she was "a baby long ago".

2. Convenience. When I travel with my kid, which is often, I keep sippy cups around. She can drink out of them in the car and I don't have to worry about spills. I can carry them places. If I could'nt lay my hands on one, a baby bottle might work in a pinch.

3. Maybe she just likes drinking out of one. So what?

And what is so shocking about her playing with an empty cup? Really, I honestly am not getting why that is bad. I grew up playing with empty bottles, packing materials, bubble wrap, cardboard boxes and plastic berry cartons. I don't get it.

[Ree]

I'm guessing the Starbucks coffee cup thing was because people were concerned that there were remnants of caffeine in the cup.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

But I bet the morons would not blink if she gave the kid chocolate.

Yeah, can't you just see a three year old falling all over herself to lick the taste of delicious, delicious coffee out of a cup?

Coffee is to little kids as gin is to most everyone else.

[kiwi]

or soda, what the heck comes with a mcdonalds happy meal

at least the coffee has milk

[jackfaire]

what the heck comes with a mcdonalds happy meal

In my area apple juice or milk

[JuniorMintz]

Personally I think the problem is not the cup itself, but what is *in* the cup.

Scientology is crazy, and they request/require that children be given formula that the church itself created. Who knows what the frick she's drinking?

(Not me, for one, because I'm too lazy to try and look it up. )

Frankly I'm more freaked out at how controlling Tom Cruise seems to be of his wife. Talk about a Napoleon complex!