Posted on 07/21/2022 7:24:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
"I think that being a mom is the most unbelievable experience in this world"
Actress Alicia Silverstone said this week that she “still” sleeps with her 11-year-old son Bear, emphasizing that she’s a “natural mama” and a “loving mama.”
The “Clueless” actress has made headlines for some of her parenting choices and even joked that her ex-husband and father to her child, musician Christopher Jarecki, initially dismissed the decisions as “hippie s***,” but he’s since come around.
“Bear and I still sleep together,” Silverstone told podcast host Ellen Fisher. “And I’ll be in trouble for saying that, but I don’t care.”
Fisher noted that Silverstone’s non-“status quo” parenting has been criticized in the press, highlighting “co-sleeping” with her son Bear.
“I’m a natural mama, and I’m a loving mama,” Silverstone reacted. “I believe in love, I believe in nature. And our society is scared of nature and love.”
Silverstone noted that it’s normal in our culture for women to wear string thong bikinis on the beach, but breastfeeding in public is not normal. “And I’m just like, what?!”
The 45-year-old further questioned why women are “sexualized” everywhere you look. “But we can’t gently feed our children with the thing that was made to feed them? Like, what is wrong with you?”
Silverstone and Fisher then gushed over motherhood. “I think that being a mom is the most unbelievable experience in this world … for me, it’s so divine,” the actress said. “I wanted to savor every moment of [Bear’s] life.”
The “Batman & Robin” actress told Fisher that ideally, she’d have more children, at least two or three in total, but didn’t have more kids because she didn’t have a partner after her relationship got “messed up.”
During the same podcast, Silverstone reportedly described how she rarely used diapers while potty-training Bear, instead watching for “clues” from her child.
“It’s so awesome. It’s so easy,” she said. “When I was done feeding him, he would go to the bathroom in the toilet. When he woke up from a nap, he went to the bathroom.”
“There was a period of time where I was watching him naked and watching the cues,” Silverstone continued. “The cues part for me was really fun because I thought that he was flirting with me because he would do this little smile. That’s when he had to pee.”
Notably, in 2012, the actress made waves online when she fed her then-10-month-old son food that had first been chewed in her mouth.
As far as actresses go this isn’t so bad. Haven’t seen her in a while but she used to be cute.
Sounds like when Bear grows up he’s gonna be in therapy for a helluva long time.
i know someone who shared her bed with her 12 year old son. I find that odd and disturbing.
“co-sleeping” with her son Bear”
Be interesting to see how screwed up this kid is in another 10 or 15 years. SMH
Hollywood truly is the new sodom and gomorrah.
as If !!!!
Cherish your memories.
Normalizing Oedipus complexes.
This is “natural” - in Hollywood.
“There was a period of time where I was watching him naked and watching the cues,” Silverstone continued. “The cues part for me was really fun because I thought that he was flirting with me because he would do this little smile. That’s when he had to pee.”
In practically any other state CPS would be looking in to this.
WTH????
There’s a difference between tucking in your child in and falling asleep next them and just plain old sleeping with them.
At one-point psychologists referred to the family bed, which was that kids were welcome to go pile in on mom and dad with the occasional sleeping between them.
Sounds like she is dependent on her son. When kids are young it is not unusual for them to want some security or comfort by joining their parents in the bed for a brief time. Children should always have their own bed for proper socialization.
Why should the kid have to be in therapy? Wasn’t just a few generations ago that it used to be common for families to all sleep in the same bed or at least in the same one room hovel.
Granted it is not my cup of tea but so long as the child is being taken care of just fine then it’s not my problem and not my affair. People have a right to raise their kids the way they want to raise them. Even if they’re nutbar liberals.
Actually, letting little kids run around naked in the privacy of your backyard is not a bad thing during potty training
However, the flirting comment is strange.
Yea, sure right. That’s were the daughter of a gal I know learned to play “bouncy bouncy” while straddling a guy. Now a screwed up adult.
Yea but is he still breast feeding?
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