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Suri Starts Her Scientology Training

SunnyChanel — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:00 GMT

So you want to raise yourself a scientologist? How do you go about instilling the values, rules and regulations into your school aged offspring? By sending them to the New Village Leadership Academy. This brand new school is a Church of Scientology education center that was launched just last year by superstar Will Smith and his wife Jada (even though there is much speculation, the couple haven’t come out publically as scientologists). This school will have a famous new student this week, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s young daughter Suri.

The New Village Academy is located in Los Angeles and educates the pre-k to 6th Grade set. This private school has just 60 students, but they hope to get up to 80 soon. The staff are all reportedly trained Scientologists and the curriculum features “study technology” (the methodology for learning developed by L. Ron Hubbard) as a focus. They also are quite strict about nutrition with a low-carb, low-sodium, low-sugar and organic diet.

The school boasts a tailored and individualized program, which is made possible with such a small enrollment of students. Along with the academic basics the students are also schooled in “Living Skills, Spanish, Dance/Performing Arts, Science, Physical Education, Karate, Yoga, Communications, Social Studies, Leadership Development, Music, Robotics, Technology, Etiquette, and Art.” They also have a longer school day, ending at 4pm, so that there is less home work and hopefully more family time, that is when mommy and daddy aren’t off filming a movie. Although there is no is reference to scientology on the school’s website, reports say they adhere to strict Scientology principles.

Suri will be attending this school this week, right after her third birthday and will be attending classes five days a week.

Many have a gut reaction when hearing the term scientology but do you think this is any different than sending your kid to an established religious educational center such as a Catholic school?

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Brett Singer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:10:00 GMT

This is such an odd piece of news.

Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom "Who Needs Doctors When You Can Take Vitamins" Cruise and Katie "Is She Being Held Prisoner" Holmes has been declared "most influential celebrity kid". Now what is the source of this important ranking? Us Magazine perhaps? The National Enquirer?

No. Forbes magazine. Malcolm must be spinning in his grave.

What method did they use? According to MyHollywood.com, "financial investigators studied Internet presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list offspring aged five years younger over the course of the last year…used a market research company to gauge the awareness of the kids and consumer-appeal of their celebrity parents." Suri won, with appearances in "more than 2,000 articles over the course of the year."

Here's the top ten if you're curious:

1. Suri Cruise
2. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
3. Zahara Jolie-Pitt
4. Pax Jolie-Pitt
5. Sam Alexis Woods
6. Cruz Beckham
7. Matilda Rose Ledger
8. David Banda
9. Sean Preston Federline
10. Sam Sheen

By the way, I had to look up Sam Sheen (that's the offspring of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen). So I feel slightly better about myself.

I have a thought. Why would a celebrity parent want their child to get this much exposure? Is it at all possible to keep kids out of the papers when you're this famous? In the case of a Suri Cruise or any of the Jolie-Pitts, wouldn't it be safer to lay low a little bit? Or does it matter in the age of social networking, photo sharing, and MyFaceSpaceBook?

Plus, this idea of "influential" seems questionable. Would you buy something because Suri Cruise endorsed it?

She is a cute little girl though. Maybe she could do Gap ads or something.

Last thought: How would you handle this sort of thing if you were mega-famous? I'm not sure what I would do, although it's not likely to be a problem in my life. My movie career began and ended when I auditioned for "Adventures in Babysitting" in the 80's.

Source/Images: MyHollywood, Famecrawler

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SunnyChanel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:05:00 GMT

Hollywood’s Cutest Kids? Life & Style Pick Their Winners

Do you live in Hollywood? Well if you do, I’m sorry if your kid wasn’t picked as one of Hollywood’s Cutest Kids. US Weekly wannabe, Life & Style Weekly Magazine, is a fickle mistress. If the spawn didn’t come from superstars (and generally a set of them), well it looks like they aren’t deemed “cute” enough to win this popularity contest. Who needs to wait until high school to be pigeon holed and have their personality branded? let’s do it before they even start preschool. So, who won for each “category”? Click thru to find out:

The Fashionista: Our one and only Suri Cruise of course! (who got her own two page spread and also is the fodder of my Suri Watch in Droolicious) (Parents: Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise)

The Globe Trotters: Shiloh and Zahara Pitt (Parents: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie)

The Drama Queen: Coco Arquette (Parents; Courteney Cox and David Arquette)

The Clotheshorse: Apple Martin (Parents: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin)

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The Accesssorizer: Valentina Pinault (Parents: Salma Hayek and Francois-henri Pinault

The Happy Camper: Violet Affleck (Parents: Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck)

The Future Rocker: Kingston Rossdale (Parents: Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale)

The Best Bros: Jayden and Sean Federline (Parents: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline)

The Hippie Kid: Ryder Robinson (Parents: Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson)

The Daredevil: Maddox Jolie-Pitt (Parents: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie)

The Mama’s Boy: Milo Langdon: (Parents Live Tyler and Royston Langdon)

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Readin', writin' and Dianetics?

Brett Singer — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

First of all, before we go any further: Will Smith has a school? Apparently yes. He and his wife, Jada Pinkett (the ones with the potentially open marriage), are opening the New Village Academy in Calabasas, California.

Most of the stories I saw about this topic are about the fact that some believe that New Village will teach kids about Dianetics and other Scientological things.

Smith and Pinkett deny that they are Scientologists themselves, and also say that the school is "secular." Although some teachers at the school are Scientologists, but they also employ instructors from other religious backgrounds. The school uses educational methods espoused by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, something called "study technology." There will also be classes in robotics, (which sounds a little advanced for K-6, but who knows), as well as yoga and etiquette.

If you want to know more about the place, the school's web site has some info. "A Message From the Founders" doesn't say who the founders are but it does give a glimpse of their educational philosophy. The Admissions Application has no mention of Thetans, the planet Venus, or Dianetics, for what that's worth.

I'm not 100% clear on how involved Jada and The Actor Formerly Known as The Fresh Prince are in this venture (maybe he'll be the Fresh Principal?). This article says that the couple wanted to open a school "for some 10 years now," which would seem to indicate that this wasn't a snap decision. I'm not so sure I would send my kids to a school that was founded by anyone with no educational background, regardless of whether or not they teach robotics.

So, Scientology aside, my question still stands: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are opening a school? Really? If they open one near you, would you send your kids there?

image/source: Yahoo! Shine

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The gossip magazines provide plenty of reasons to question TomKat's parenting skills. But is it fair to go after Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes for continuing to give their two-year-old daughter, Suri, a bottle?

The adorable little girl has frequently been photographed hitting the town with Mommy and Daddy while toting around a babby bottle, even though she turned two last month. (No one has inquired yet as to whether she still uses a bottle all jacked up with BPA. An investigation into this crucial issue will undoubtedly be launched by Us Weekly.)

Most parents start the process of weaning the kid off the 'ol faux nipple sometime shortly after baby's first birthday. One orthodontist even tells the New York Daily News that feeding Suri milk or juice via a bottle at this age could be damaging her teeth, the last thing the Good Lord would want for the daughter of Capt. Smiley. So why hasn't the Cruise family kicked her of the habit?

It's unclear, although they were spotted over the weekend watching David Beckham play soccer, and Suri was notably bottle-less at the time. Still, here is the bigger question: Do we, the public at large, have a right to judge Tom and Katie for their bottle-serving habits? Does it make them bad parents?

It might, but I have to err on the side of we don't have a right to make the call, if only because it seems harshly judgmental to criticize their parenting skills when we are basing our information largely on photos and stories in not-always-reputable media outlets. Still, it definitely doesn't look good for Suri to have that bottle in her hand. And if Tom Cruise wants to continue bolstering his image as the Ultimate Movie Star Dad, then he would be smart to at least start slipping her a sippy cup.

It may be true that they are fostering a bad habit, which is clearly not wise. But they're not endangering her life by, say, driving around with her in their laps or something. Only someone with serious problems would do that.

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The good folks at Defamer have paid much attention to how many bottles famous Scientology mothers are giving their kids. Leah Remini has confessed to still bottle feeding her three-year-old and Suri here looks like she has no intention of stopping the “ba-ba.” Critics have called a lot of supposedly regular parenting practices of Scientology into question (“silent birth” anyone?). Now there is speculation as to what is in that bottle two-year-old Suri clutches so dearly. And that magic liquid might be toxic to kids… If you read into Scientology practices, and Defamer has, you’ll find Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard advocated feeding babies and children a homemade formula comprised of barley water, homogenized milk, and oodles of sugar-heavy honey. Funny thing is, honey can be toxic to young children. Furthermore, other Scientology moms and dads say Hubbard’s formula made their children thin, colicky and destroyed their teeth. Here’s the best part: Hubbard claims he discovered this formula when he time traveled back to ancient Rome. Well you know what they say: when in Rome…go bat-shit crazy.

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Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:04:00 GMT

But I can't help it.

Yes, I'm telling myself I'm not actually laughing at a 2-year-old -- but rather at her father, because, well, yeah ...

But still, is it OK to poke fun at stars' children, even if their parents are very publicly dangling off the edge of Crazy?

Because Suri-Bot is kind of funny.

And the description of Tom Cruise going around the playground asking about the model numbers of other "childrem" had me in stitches. I feel almost dirty for laughing. Hard. For a long time.

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Scientology vs Pokémon

Brett Singer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Scientology is everywhere these days, from Tom Cruise's wacky video to actors claiming that the religion is responsible for their success in television. The general consensus is that (a) Tom is a kook, and (b) Scientology is weird. The same day I first saw Tom laugh maniacally and claim that he was "the only one who can help," I also listened to my son tell me, in great detail, about his current obsession, Pokémon. So I started thinking: what's weirder, Pokémon or Scientology?

There are some basic similarities:

Both words are made up, and were formed by combining two other real words (“Science+Technology” and “Pocket+Monsters”.)
Both have rabid followers (talk to a six year old about it sometime, and see if you don't consider, just for a second, having them deprogrammed.)

Here are some more comparisons between the religion and the kids' game:

	Scientology	Pokémon
Example of beliefs	The thetan (spirit) is described in Scientology as having no mass, no wavelength, no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate. The spirit, then, is not a thing. It is the creator of things —1956, Professional Auditor's Bulletin 85 (source: Wikipedia)	Players of the [Pokémon] games are designated as Pokémon Trainers, and the two general goals (in most Pokémon games) for such Trainers are: to complete the Pokédex by collecting all of the available Pokémon species found in the fictional region where that game takes place; and to train a team of powerful Pokémon from those they have caught to compete against teams owned by other Trainers, and eventually become the strongest Trainer, the Pokémon Master. (source: Wikipedia)
Sacred text	Dianetics	Pokédex
Sacred item	Deluxe Planetary Dissemination Edition E-Meter ($5500) (source: The New Yorker)	Trading cards, video games ($5 - $50)
Patron saint	L. Ron Hubbard	Professor Oak
Controversy	Some believe it to be more of a cult than a religion; outlawed in some countries	Episode of cartoon series caused seizures in children; has been attacked by religious groups for various reasons, including taking offense at the concept of “Pokémon evolution” (FYI, there is no “Pokémon intelligent design”)
South Park episode making fun of it	“Trapped in the Closet”	“Chinpokomon”

Bottom line: both are an obsession, both sound whack-a-doodle to the uninitiated, and both want your money. But Pokémon wants less of your money, and most kids grow out of it and/or move on to something else.
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Weekly Check-Up: Good News/Bad News About Risky Business

Kelly Mills — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Okay, so good news first? Parents do actually have some influence over their kids' practice of risky behaviors like drinking and drugging and screwing, even when the kids are college-age. A new study found that if moms and dads are in the loop about what their offspring are doing, even when the kids are off at the dorms, the kids were less likely to do risky stuff like befriend a hooker and dance around in their underwear and consume tons of liquor. (Actually I think that Risky Business was about a teenager, not college kid, but you get the idea.) Specifically, when dads knew about their lives kids were less likely to have unsafe sex and use drugs; and when moms were in the know they were less likely to drink until they puked.

Bad news? I guess this means that it ain't over when they leave the nest, and while the study authors talk lots about how delaying adulthood is a good thing, I'm just saying, you've got more than 18 years ahead of you. But hey, beats having your kid wreck the Porche and help run a brothel for teens, so maybe there is no bad news here if you don't mind staying in touch with your kids for a long time.

P.S. Ahhh, remember when we didn't know that Tom Cruise was whackadoodle?