Ok – again – on The View (it’s the only show I get to watch that doesn’t have the label ‘Nick Jr’ in the corner of it, I swear!), they showed the front page of The New York Post. On it’s cover? Britney Spears and her son with a pack of cigarettes.

And I got a little peeved.

Why? Well, because no smoking isn’t good for you, second-hand smoke isn’t good for you, but really? Does smoking make you a bad mommy? Not unless you’re an uptight #@*!*. I mean really – she wasn’t lighting one up for him.

I’m not a huge Britney fan. I’m not one at all, actually. And yes, she has had some major screw-ups, but really – which mom out there hasn’t at least ONCE screwed up with their kids? It seems like she is making an effort to pull herself together. The LAST thing she needs is something like this….

I mean, imagine your worst mistake with your kid. Picture it in your head like it was 5 minutes ago. Like you could smell the pain, the fear, the (insert your adjective here – whatever was the result of your f#$* up)  in your little kid the moment you slipped. Did ya yell? Say something you wish you hadn’t? Did you compare him to the kid down the street?

Now picture that moment splashed on the front page of one of the nation’s largest papers, in TMZ.com, on The View, every blog for the world to see. Hmmmm….

In my opinion, it’s no wonder she’s had so many problems. Under such a microscope, how many of you wouldn’t crack?

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