Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
Suzette Valle “The media-rich times we live in are having a huge impact on how kids think and behave today.” Mamarazzi Knows Best.com was born out of the need to mesh our reality with the one produced in Hollywood and delivered to our homes daily: Television, movies, merchandise, magazines, and the heavy focus on celebrity [...]
It’s a shame Dr. Laura will be going off the air. I will miss her company, the advice, and support she gave me over the last 18 years. I really wanted her to stick around long enough for my kids to listen to her, and hear confirmation of what “Do the Right Thing” means in their adult life. Not all decisions are clear cut in our daily lives, but listening to her show sometimes helped me decipher the answer to many confusing situations.
Every parent knows that when kids reach the teen years, time with them becomes more valuable and so do the lessons we can impart. Hopefully, we take full advantage of these precious moments to do this any way we can. Last week-end was no exception for me. Before I was finished slurping the foam off my [...]
