Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Dec 20 2007
Would celebrity parents make publishers a lot of money writing books on parenting? Probably.
This is one of very few posts you will ever read here that refers to Britney Spears. The news that Ms. Spears' younger sister, Jamie Lynne, is about to become a teen mom was not what surprised me. What surprised me was that Lynn Spears, mother to both Britney and Jamie Lynn, had been planning to put out a book on parenting.
The book's release has apparently been put on hold, which is also not much of a surprise. I can't imagine why anyone would want such a book as a parenting guide, though they might enjoy reading it for sheer voyeuristic purposes. My spouse suggested that the publisher should have gone ahead with the original release plans and have touted the book as one of those stories that could serve as a bad example. The book might prevent similar family train wrecks in other homes across the planet if parents avoided the book's peculiar brand of insight with the same ferver they might use to avoid an onslaught of hemorrhagic fever.
I don't know any of the folks in that family personally and I wish them no harm. I do know that celebrity status does not give automatic entry into the world of common sense and expertise in raising children. There are a lot of relatively unknown parents out there who could write a superb book on parenting. Let's see some publishers who have the courage to look at selling real, successful parenting skills instead of just capitalizing on the fame and notoriety of a celebrity family.
posted at: 07:30 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
This is one of very few posts you will ever read here that refers to Britney Spears. The news that Ms. Spears' younger sister, Jamie Lynne, is about to become a teen mom was not what surprised me. What surprised me was that Lynn Spears, mother to both Britney and Jamie Lynn, had been planning to put out a book on parenting.
The book's release has apparently been put on hold, which is also not much of a surprise. I can't imagine why anyone would want such a book as a parenting guide, though they might enjoy reading it for sheer voyeuristic purposes. My spouse suggested that the publisher should have gone ahead with the original release plans and have touted the book as one of those stories that could serve as a bad example. The book might prevent similar family train wrecks in other homes across the planet if parents avoided the book's peculiar brand of insight with the same ferver they might use to avoid an onslaught of hemorrhagic fever.
I don't know any of the folks in that family personally and I wish them no harm. I do know that celebrity status does not give automatic entry into the world of common sense and expertise in raising children. There are a lot of relatively unknown parents out there who could write a superb book on parenting. Let's see some publishers who have the courage to look at selling real, successful parenting skills instead of just capitalizing on the fame and notoriety of a celebrity family.
posted at: 07:30 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
