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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Heh, heh.
Why is this even news. Her parents are a couple of perverts and degenerates.
Dad is a alleged rapist and sexual predator and a traitor and a disbarred lawyer.
Mom is a disgusting unindicted felon for Lord knows how many crimes she committed in the 8 stinking years they were in our White House.
And now we get this “disciplinary” crap from Chelsea? Who the hell really cares. She should be totally ashamed of both of her parents for so many reasons. Golly . . . can’t the Clintoons just go away?
How is her hush money different than that paid by John Edwards to his on-staff floozy?
Bubba told her no pizza??? Talk about a “do as I say and not as I do” hypocritical Lib.
What the hell does BJ know? He wasn’t home. He didn’t raise that child.
It’s a distinction without a difference.
It’s a distinction without a difference.
>>She may have been given a dump truck instead of a doll but TV and Sesame Street ruled.<<
Only when parents actually raised their kids.
How many nannies did this kid have?
I believe it, some parents certainly were.
When Chelsea was allowed to have pizza, did Monica deliver it?
You got me, I guess the Clinton administration was outside the law. Someday historians will reveal it for the history making cesspool that it was, but that is many decade in the future.
On the contrary, the current occupant of the White House allows me to reflect fondly on the Clinton years. I'd love to go back to those halcyon 1990s when we all had jobs and the most troubling news out of Washington dealt with cigars and stained dresses.
Along with teaching 7 year olds about oral sex and glorifying it, along with masturbating in sinks.
She’s a Clinton. That means she is a liar.
No TV/movies and very restricted internet access is a good idea these days as long as there is also no public schools.
Heck I think a new rule should be created, no dating until your 18, then we won’t care. Be super protective until they are 18 and aren’t going to be on your conscious (or your moral dime) anymore.
They came close to wagging their tongues when Hillary posed a threat to Obama’s candidacy (the media even hushed up Edward’s scandal to keep him viable in the race and keep Hillary in a three-way race for delegates).
The Clintons were bought off in 2008 with Hillary’s promise of a cabinet position and returning Clintonistas to Washington in the Obama administration.
The bent one didn’t consider ‘door no. 2’ sex tho iirc. Which leads to this question: Why couldn’t the most powerful man on earth, the man with his finger on the nuke trigger.......rate anything better than a freakin’ spitter!!!??
I would think that at some point the tv news would have been too embarrassing for her to watch with her parents.
OLD joke: Hillary to Chelsea: “Are you having sex?” Chelsea: “Not according to Dad!”
She was the only one foolish enough to believe his cock and bull story about leaving his wife for her.
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