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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I know exactly what your are talking about. My kids regularly thank me for limiting their TV viewing to about an hour a week and encouraging them to read. They have the same policy with their kids and the result is my kids and grand children have very happy dispositions and thoroughtly endjoy life. I’m so proud of them all!
Hells bells, it’s now wonder why Bill told her she couldn’t have pizza.
Monica Lewinski was making the deliveries.
Yeah, I guess you're right.At least we knew where they were: Clinton was getting Lewinskied by Lewinski in the White House and Hitlery was cleaning up blood stains and stealing things from our White House. As long as slimy Bill was getting his cigars humidified and he and Hitlery were sharing the female interns, all was well.
Well other than Bill giving missile technology to the Chicoms for campaign donations.
Well, they didn't get my kids. I taught them myself.
I did! The streetlight was my friend back in the day! Thanks!
We also talked about the fact that three of my kids are boys (one girl) and that they could end up marrying women who won't raise them this way. He assured me that that wouldn't happen, lol. I hope he's right. I'd love to have the same joy you do in seeing my grandchildren raised with the same values and love of learning. How blessed you are!
Yes, football is big in our home, too. :-)
You mean cigar sex is not safe sex?
BS!
I wouldn’t believe a word she says. She is the daughter of the two most accomplished liars to walk the corridors of the White House. She certainly was front & center in all campaigns in Arkansas and not hidden away like she claims.
The DNA stain on Monica’s dress didn’t come from a cigar. If he’d wrapped that rascal, there would be no DNA spooge.
BS!
I wouldn’t believe a word she says. She is the daughter of the two most accomplished liars to walk the corridors of the White House. She certainly was front & center in all campaigns in Arkansas and not hidden away like she claims.
http://hillaryunleashed.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/little-chelsea.jpg
And don't forget the pilots who overstayed their visas and were not interested in learning how to land.
Our kids, a boy and a girl, tended to mix with kids from similar backgrounds and have great marriages and wonderful kids. Lots of participation in sports and no influence from TV or Hollywood works wonders!
She doesn’t know what strict is. I grew up with no tv (in NY, where everyone had one ), no soda, ever, no candy or sweets of any kind. And don’t even get me started on what punishment was.
She didn’t need to see Toons on the TV she was raised by Hill and Billary ClinToon.
Bingo!
They did not want her to see the coverage of them on television.
They did not want her hearing their pals sitting on tv saying - every body does it! That is, everyone is a cheating liar like Chelsea’s dad. And the bit about her dad’s oral sex in the oval office is not really sex...
Too bad America did not turn off the television.
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