Excerpts from mother of the ages – Lynne Spears’ book

Lynne Spears’ new book called Through The Storm: A Real Tale Of Fame And Family In A Tabloid World, isn’t really all that bad if you look at it in the right light. It’s a great lesson for all of us, exactly how not to raise a child. The National Enquirer (via The UK Daily Mail) got a hold of the book before its September 16th release and published a few of Lynne’s amazing parenting exploits:

• At the age of 13, Britney started drinking. This was right after she joined The Mickey Mouse Club. Lynne said she really didn’t care as long as she was around while Britney drank.

• When Britney was 14, she started dating an 18-year-old high school football stud. Lynne encouraged it, because she thought it would make Britney more popular. She even let Britney stay at the boy’s house. Not surprisingly the boy ended up taking 14-year-old Britney’s virginity.

• When she was 15, Britney went to Los Angeles to record her first album. That’s when she started doing drugs. Lynne thought she was going through typical teenage issues (one sees a pattern here of non-parenting).

• At 16, Britney was frequenting bars in New Orleans with her brother Bryan, who is five years older than her. The same year Britney was caught with coke and weed while trying to board a private jet. She was 16.

• That same year, Brit started dating Justin Timberlake. Lynne let them to sleep together in Brit’s room. She said she knew they were doing it, but allowed it because Britney was “in love.”

Lynne writes that she wishes she didn’t allow Britney’s career and life to be controlled by managers. They are the ones who turned her into a sex symbol at such a young age. Oh really! In the end, Lynne knows she made mistakes as a parent. She blames herself for her daughter’s breakdown. A reader of the book observes: “Lynne’s book does a lot of soul-searching on the mistakes she made raising Britney and Jamie Lynn. She says if she had known helping her daughter Britney follow her dreams would cost her her soul, she would never have done it.”

It’s too bad Lynne still can’t make the distinction between helping her child follow her dreams, and knowing when to set limits and protect her child. I think Lynne is so clueless that she thinks readers will sympathize with her. Personally she disgusts me.