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I'm not Perez Hilton for whom gossip is his biz and my initials aren't TMZ, so if I am going to write a post about a celebrity parent, it's going to be written as if this parent is your neighbor, your friend, your sister, your mom or anyone else you might encounter in your day to day life. And the child? She could be your niece, your babysitter, your kid's best friend, or even your own daughter.
Based upon what I read at Jezebel and iVillage, Rocker Courtney Love experienced what she called "a Twitter Relapse" and sent out approximately sixty tweets to her estranged teenage daughter Francis Bean Cobain. But who among us might not have done the same thing if we found ourselves living in a similar circumstance?
By "similar circumstance," I'm not talking about being a celebrity, I'm talking about stuff like being widowed at age 30, battling a drug addiction, and losing custody of a child.
There are plenty of parents who blog about these sorts of situations, because their lives aren't so different from what's been going on with Courtney Love. And if any of those moms took to Twitter and sent out a bunch of bizarre tweets, might we be gathering around and trying to offer support?
Most of the tweets are disconnected mini-rants and appear to be written by someone experiencing a vast amount of emotional pain, exhaustion or possibly under the influence of booze or drugs.
No one can know for sure except the mom who hit "send." Even so, it seems Love isn't feeling the love about having let loose on the Internet and did tweet out an apology to her daughter. While the apology is the appropriate action to take, another more appropriate one is to resolve not to tweet or use Facebook when upset, tired or intoxicated. And this is a pledge any parent can take, not just the famous ones.
What if Courtney hadn't tweeted and instead had written it all up as a blog post? Would that have made a difference?
