Comments on: Soleil Moon Frye: Moms Do 'The Best That We Can'

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:05:07 +0000

Her daughters look like Adam Sandlers eldest daughter.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:14:27 +0000

Soleil is a typical elitist. When she talks about getting a license to have children, she just assumes she’d be fine in that scenario because she’s superior to all those lower class folks who would fail the test and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

Parenting, just like children, shouldn’t be forced to fit into a box of what is acceptable as long as no abuse is present. The problem with elitists is that they think anyone who doesn’t raise their children the way the elitist does IS abusing them. Disturbing.

By: SouthernBelle

SouthernBelle — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:52:57 +0000

Jamie, there is an independent director named Paige Goldberg and Jason Goldberg, Soleil’s husband, is a director, as well. I, too, have wondered if they are, perhaps, brother and sister or otherwise related, but have never read or heard anything that answered that question.

Soleil has two beautiful little girls and I applaud her efforts to give them the safest and most comfortable environment possible. I also applaud her efforts and confidence in doing what she feels is her very best in parenting her daughters. It does, however, bother me when celebs (or anyone else) make judgments or give advice as overnight, self-proclaimed “experts” in parenting just because they’ve become a parent. First, “parenting should require a license” and, now, the “it’s okay you did your best” approach is acceptable? I have to agree with megan and MZ that the about-face “expert” advice bothers me just a little.

Most parents do not have access to the disposable income that celebs do. And, if they did, just because they don’t make the same choices (including buying from celebrity stores) does not mean their parenting is inferior (or requires a license) or will harm their children’s health, safety and well-being. People were succesfully parenting long before celeb parents started giving advice. While I do not currently have little ones (my children are older) and have never been easily affected or persuaded by this new rash of advice from celeb “experts,” I do see younger parents being affected by it and new mothers feeling uncertain and guilty when they aren’t able to afford certain foods, clothes, accessories or other “necessities” (which, by the way, are subject to opinion,) when they have excellent parenting skills and can successfully raise a child if they could just muster the confidence to discern which advice is valid as “expert” advice and which are just popular beliefs masquerading as “expert” advice because someone in the industry proclaimed it to be.

Again, I’m just making a point that I agree with megan and MZ in their confusion about the change in “expert” advice.

By: MZ

MZ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:55:55 +0000

megan, i was thinking the same thing!

By: megan

megan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:42:51 +0000

““We just do the best that we can as moms, as business owners, and when we fall down and we fail, we say, we’ll do it better next time,”

After reading Soleil’s “parenting should require a license” comment, I guess she only applies “it’s okay, you did the best” to herself.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:24:51 +0000

Ok, thanks. Mainly the Joseph threw me off! Never heard that for a girl before

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:54:52 +0000

beautiful girls! that little Poet is Soleil, Jr. Jagger is more of a mix of both parents.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:57:00 +0000

This has been bugging me for awhile, but does anyone know if Paige (Soleil’s Little Seed partner) is related to Jason? Soleil’s husband is Jason Goldberg, so whenever I read Paige Goldberg’s name, I have to wonder.

Does anyone know for sure?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:56:23 +0000

There are many unusual celebrity baby names that threw me for a loop when I first heard them, but once I heard them a few times, I got over it. Jagger Joseph Blue is one that I just cannot, no matter how many times I hear it, get over. I wish they had used at least one feminine name in the mix. I don’t mind Jagger for either sex, but to accompany with Joseph and Blue just seems so masculine. What about Jagger Josephine Bleu?

By: Tee

Tee — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:13:42 +0000

Brooke, Jagger is a little girl. She just has an unusual name!