Posted on 05/07/2012 4:52:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Chelsea Clinton’s Childhood: No Pizza, Cartoons on Weekdays
Bill and Hillary Clinton were, it seems, just as strict setting rules for their daughter Chelsea as they were pushing for policies in Washington.
According to the only child, the former president and first lady vetoed sugary cereals, set a strict 30-minute per day limit on watching TV, and relegated pizza eating and cartoon watching to the weekends, Chelsea Clinton, now 32, wrote in the foreword of a parenting book about kids’ media consumption.
“In our house, media had its place,” Clinton says in “Talking Back to Facebook,” which was written by her former Stanford professor James Steyer. “Media consumption, like meals, was a shared family experience.”
Clinton said her family’s dinner discussions “frequently” revolved around the news, movies, television shows and computer games, particularly about how the media was covering her parents, who for most of her elementary school life were the governor and first lady of Arkansas.
“Those conversations helped me develop a broad and healthy skepticism about the media as well as a respect for its ability… to empower or disempower people,” Clinton writes in the book, which will be released Tuesday.
Clinton, who was 13-years-old when she moved into the White House, said she only “secured precious permission” to watch her first hour-long program, “ER”, as a teenager, but spent “hundreds of hours” playing old-school computer games like “Oregon Trail” and “Carmen San Diego” with her dad.
But however strict the Clintons were in restricting their daughter’s media consumption, they were just as firm in limiting the amount of exposure the media got to their former first daughter, keeping her out of the limelight as much as possible.
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They didn’t hand her condoms and tell her to have fun??
Because thats basically what they did to everyone else’s kids
They're deep into the practice of establishing serious rules.
I don’t believe it. Parents weren’t that paranoid back then. She may have been given a dump truck instead of a doll but TV and Sesame Street ruled.
She should sue her parents for ruining her childhood.
I’ll bet she could make enough to live for the rest of her life on that.
I will volunteer to be a jurist on that trial :)
Remember Chels wasn’t raised by BJ and Hildabeast.
They were far too busy investing in cattle futures and real estate deals and pursuing bimbos to worry about menial tasks like child rearing.
We got to find the nanny to get some real facts in this case.
"...and on Thursday evenings,backflips and the fine art of Frisbee catching"
I know that the discussion on this article isn’t going to go where I am about to go, but I’ll say it anyways. Just tonight I was talking to my 22 year old son and he told me that he thinks that the reason my kids all turned out so well is due in large part to the fact that we didn’t watch any TV when they were growing up. That and the fact that I made them read the classics every day for at least an hour during the summer. They started with the classics in the middle school years. It’s so funny because they complained to no end when I was making them do it, but they are grateful now that I made them.
I have a daughter who is 15 and not as motivated as they are and he told me that I need to take away her TV. Kind of funny to have my son telling me that.
Do as I say, not as I do?
A very very backward version, IMO
All while her parents cheat, lie and steal.
I call BS.
Even Bill Clinton, who'd previously received favorable treatment from the media, including the sh(tcanning of an explosive story of his affair with a teenaged intern, spoke out in 2008 about how the media was decidedly in Barack's pocket pushing his campaign.
But I suppose that Chelsea is whining over talk radio or some such "media's ability to disempower people". Damn you, talk radio!
*”NEWSWEEK has learned that Helen Dickey, Chelsea’s nanny from her Little Rock days, has landed a job-and a bedroom-at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Dickey, 22, earns $20,000 a year as a full-time “staff assistant” in the White House social office, according to Hillary Clinton’s Press Secretary Lisa Caputo. Dickey’s duties include “basic backup support,” like helping to plan parties and answering mail and the phones. Dickey says she is no longer Chelsea’s nanny, but Caputo acknowledges that Dickey does take care of the First Daughter “on occasion.”
*Drudge REPORT: MOTHER OF CHELSEA’S NANNY MOVED TO PENTAGON AFTER BEING NAMED AS
CLINTON’S LOVER
A White House aide was transferred abruptly to a job at the Defense
Department after she was named as a long-standing lover of President Clinton
in Paula Jones’s sexual harassment lawsuit, the LONDON TELEGRAPH reports in
early Thursday editions.
“Robyn Dickey, the former White House Director of Special Projects and
Special Needs, was appointed chief of the protocol office at the Defense
Department last November, days after her alleged affair with Bill Clinton
was raised in a deposition.”
Mrs Dickey, a divorcee now aged 50, handled finances for Clinton’s
presidential campaign in 1992; she accompanied him to Washington after his
inauguration. Her daughter, Helen Dickey, was Chelsea Clinton’s nanny and
lived on the third floor of the residence at the White House.
Well, the public schools are going to make sure kids without TV get corrupted too.
How many hours did William rack up playing Leisure Suit Larry?
I am with you on this one. I have kids who, thankfully, disregard TV today, but for fall football.
Bill Clinton didn’t use a condom with Monica. He practiced unsafe sex.
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