Was that article just a vehicle for that writer to biatch about her own kid doing the same?

SphericalTime: I wonder what they call Tom's boyfriends?

Xenu.

John

I stopped when it turned into a discussion about the habits of the modern family, but that first part is horrible. If I had kids and they called someone else Dad while I'm still alive, I'll be inclined to kill the farker they call Dad. And my ex-wife. I think it would be more all right if I was dead, or out of the picture. But what Holmes and Cruise have done is just wrong.

Who would you rather have: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman, or John Travolta?

My favorite part of the article was how the article was about the author of the article. Brilliant journalism.

robbiedo: Who would you rather have: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman, or John Travolta?

The second one on top of the first one. The last one dead in my backyard.

What the fark happened to Katie Holmes? The last time I checked, she actually looked like a woman.

This thread needs more pics of katie holmes:

NSFW (pops) Did I mention NSFW?

GAT_00: If I had kids and they called someone else Dad while I'm still alive, I'll be inclined to kill the farker they call Dad. And my ex-wife. I think it would be more all right if I was dead, or out of the picture. But what Holmes and Cruise have done is just wrong.


Hell man, that hit me this past holiday... my kid called her new step dad "dad". :(

but what should I expect?? I mean the man does live with them and I live over 150 miles away with standard visitations.... its all good, but to hear it for the first time was a trip..

New Mommy A Lot Prettier
(the onion an it pops)

New mother is a stepford wife. Old mother just acted as one

Hell...I'll call Nicole 'Mommy' if it makes her feel better....

HA! 3 lines of "news", rest = her biatching
wonderful.
esp this line: Studies claim that by 2010 there will be more children living in a step-family than in a biological family.

Yes and 67.45% of stats are made up on the spot.

GAT_00 don't ever tell that to a court shrink, or you'll never see your kids again. It's a really farked situation, though, made worse when your kids tell the people at school they have two daddies.

My elementary school kids had a brand new step brother, born 5 months after the wedding, so faced with court shrink, I had to grin and eat it up, because maybe it would be difficult for everyone "over there" if I made a big deal of it.

I am not angry with the new guy, just shiatloads of jealous since he gets MY time with the kids and all of those fun times of them growing up (in addition to enjoying my salary much more than I ever will.)

So Nicole Kidman, I wish you had stopped when you were a redhead, but here's to you this morning.

My impression of Kidman is that she is one of those ice queen "I will always be young" women that don't want to be called "Mom" because it implies age (I know a woman who refuses to be called anything near Grandmother). Holmes seems FAR more motherly anyway.

/DRTFA
/Who would?

Who really knows either one? They're celebrities. Don't they all drink the blood of virgins and hang upside down in the closet at night?

Since they bought those kids, it makes little difference. Neither is really their mom.

robbiedo: Who would you rather have: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman, or John Travolta?

Is this a Marry, Boff, Kill?

This is too easy. Kill Travolta (though i like most of his flicks). Boff Kidman (she's nummy, but her star is falling). Marry Holmes and deprogram her.

They call Tom "The little fruit who sleeps down the hall from mommy"

They obviously played games with the kids.

When my ex remarried, the kids called him by his name. He retorted that he would call them butthead until they started calling him dad. It took a few months, but he has been 'dad' for them for years now. They have always called me 'dad'- so that hasn't changed.

All I know is- I'll still be 'dad' in 10 years. He'll be ex #2 and 3.

F you Katie and Tom. You don't screw with kids like that.

Sarcastica75: thedarkshadow: Who really knows either one? They're celebrities. Don't they all drink the blood of virgins and hang upside down in the closet at night?

There are virgins in Hollywood?

They import, sacrifice, and then make reality shows about them. (Though, in recent years, they may have relaxed standards to "A virgin is anyone who hasn't been to Hollywood before, or at least says they haven't."

Macular Degenerate: This thread needs more pics of katie holmes:


"You have chosen.....poorly.".

I'd call Nicole anything she wanted. Kidman > Holmes > Cruz

In defense of the stepparents...

My fiance's children call me by my first name, and I would never in a million years allow them to call me "Mom." I'm not their mother. I love them very much and am very proud to be in their lives and am thrilled to soon be their stepmother, but they have a mother. And even though she sees them at her whim, every few weeks or so when she's not drinking again, she will always be their mother. We never speak ill of her and never let the kids know the real reason mommy's not coming this week :(

I guess in anyone's situation, someone's got to try to fark it up. But in any case, I could never be comfortable being called "Mom," regardless of anything.

This might be a good time to get other farkers opinions on what they call their in-laws. I, too, can't call anyone else besides my own parents "mom" and "dad." In Eastern European tradition though, you can't call your in-laws anything BUT mom and dad. I've also heard other American families use this, of course.

Being an American, I want to follow the liberal tradition of calling my FIL Stanley or Mr. Kbar. What do you do?

RoyBatty: GAT_00 don't ever tell that to a court shrink, or you'll never see your kids again. It's a really farked situation, though, made worse when your kids tell the people at school they have two daddies.

My elementary school kids had a brand new step brother, born 5 months after the wedding, so faced with court shrink, I had to grin and eat it up, because maybe it would be difficult for everyone "over there" if I made a big deal of it.

I am not angry with the new guy, just shiatloads of jealous since he gets MY time with the kids and all of those fun times of them growing up (in addition to enjoying my salary much more than I ever will.)

So Nicole Kidman, I wish you had stopped when you were a redhead, but here's to you this morning.

No, your kids have a new half-brother, not a new step-brother. I hope you don't refer to the new baby as step-brother in front of your kids as if he's not related to them by blood.

nkimble84: In defense of the stepparents...

My fiance's children call me by my first name, and I would never in a million years allow them to call me "Mom." I'm not their mother. I love them very much and am very proud to be in their lives and am thrilled to soon be their stepmother, but they have a mother. And even though she sees them at her whim, every few weeks or so when she's not drinking again, she will always be their mother. We never speak ill of her and never let the kids know the real reason mommy's not coming this week :(

I guess in anyone's situation, someone's got to try to fark it up. But in any case, I could never be comfortable being called "Mom," regardless of anything.

Bravo. The world needs more people like you. My father tried to strong-arm me into calling my stepmother "mom" despite the fact that I spent only weekends with them and lived with my mom. My stepmother is a wonderful woman but she is not nor will she ever be my mother. Shame on Tom for allowing this to occur although I am never shocked by anything that mad little midget does anymore.

DontMakeMeShushYou

Thank you. I have a stepmother too who is a fantastic, wonderful woman as well, but she's Liz to me and always will be, as my mother is "Mom." My dad never attempted it any other way, which is why I, on the verge of becoming a stepmother myself, would never do that to my fiance's children. I really do love them, and because of that, I want to do everything I can to lessen any confusion they may have. I think stepfamilies can work if everyone involved does their best to understand how it feels to be the child in a situation like that. I feel better prepared to be in a stepfamily having grown up that way.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this isn't a big deal because Tom's first few kids were all adopted. It's not like Nicole gave birth to some ingrates who don't consider her mom anymore.

No big deal, Sonia Poulton needs to stick to trying journalism and not write a crap opinion piece.

At Thanksgiving, they were calling the turkey baster "Dad."

zephyr_words: Correct me if I'm wrong but this isn't a big deal because Tom's first few kids were all adopted. It's not like Nicole gave birth to some ingrates who don't consider her mom anymore.

No big deal, Sonia Poulton needs to stick to trying journalism and not write a crap opinion piece.

Wow, I can;t believe there are still people out there that think this way. Clearly you have no family members who were adopted. It does not make them any less a member of the family.

Gidgie You're right, half-brother, not step-brother. I was typing after four hours of sleep.... And in fact, I always speak very positively about their brother and have a pretty good relationship with him, and his baby pictures and any other pictures my kids bring over go up on the wall, right next to theirs.

I think it depends on the situation. My stepson(3)calls me "Daddy" at his own doing, nothing I or his mother enforced. he knows his real father and spends some weekends there when he isn't broke or in jail. But, I am really the only father figure he has known, as well as the only constant positive male role model the dhild has. I love him and treat him as my own child, and if things go as they have been I may end up being able to adopt him as my own son.

wtf cares
w= who

On the issue of Kidman/Cruise/the Holmesbot: The sad fact is that while you can't walk past a newsstand without seeing a picture of Holmes and her spawn, how long has it been since anybody even noticed or mentioned that Cruise has two other children? Adopted or not, they are now his, and seem to have been discarded in favor of Dad's newer, fresher, cuter, allegedly biological offspring. That's more pathetic than whatever they call whichever maternal unit they're with.
On the issue of what to call in-laws: I refer to mind by their first names. They sign cards to us as "Mom and Dad", but I just couldn't get myself to call them that initially. I don't think I ever will. I remember my M-I-L referring to herself as 'Mom' in a conversation with me, right after the joint funeral for my parents, and I thought "thank you, but I had one mother, and she is gone". So I don't agree with referring to anyone else as "mom" or "dad", even stepparents.
I know some parents use variations, like "pop" or "ma" or whatever. I just don't think its a good idea. Everyone has a name, why not use it?

/ also never liked adding 'aunt' or 'uncle' to someone's name