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On a day when she should be celebrating the release of her Fake Superman-endorsed new album, embattled part-time mother Britney Spears once again finds herself the victim of a California child-welfare system gone utterly mad with power, discovering anew that the oppressive institution steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that successful parenting involves more than "paying attention" to her kids or establishing freedom-smothering "routines" that create chaos-minimizing home environments.
Based on the recommendations of the court-appointed coach clearly still hurt by the international superstar's initial refusal to pay attention to her child-rearing instructions, Spears' visitations with Sean Preston and I Gave You A Name That One Time, Right, Other Baby? have been cut back to two days a week. People reports:
According to [parenting coach] Hacker, the singer showed a "lack of general attention at times." In addition, when the kids were with Spears, they "have no real schedule or routine. The environment at the house ranged from chaotic to almost somber with little communication at all."Also, during the visits, Spears "had little to no interest in talking to or utilizing" Hacker's guidance.
The coach does, however, concede that Spears "loves her children and the children are bonded to [Spears]."
Still, Hacker expressed concern that "many of [Spears's] interactions with the children are not child-centered....It seems that her choices are dependant more upon what she wants to do at any given time rather than what would be more enjoyable for the children."
However, Hacker witnessed nothing that she "would characterize as abusive in a traditional sense."
By the fourth meeting, Hacker noted that Spears "seemed much more engaged with [the coach] and her children."
The frustrated coach was forced to minimize the importance of even those modest fourth-session gains in Spears' engagement level, however, noting in the report that when her younger son began to cry, she quickly offered to let the instructor keep the wailing child if she could "just make his annoying baby-alarm stop ringing" because she was "too tired to take him to the nice check-out lady at Target who taught me how to turn it off yesterday."
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