Vanessa Lachey is Pro-Celebrity Mom

Vanessa Lachey her husband Nick Lachey are expecting a baby together.

Lachey has already come forward to set the record straight about what she thinks about Celebrity Momsters in the news:

"No one can tell anybody how to mother until you're a mother -- and everyone has their own methods and I think it's beautiful that these celebrity moms are doing what they're doing unapologetically because it's their child and it's their life. I just wish that as a society we could just commend them for being mothers."

I think Lachey says it really well. We need to celebrate all mothers and styles of mothering and see what we can learn from each other.

One mom’s way of feeding her child may not be right for us and our child, but it doesn’t make it wrong.

It’s easy enough to see why pre-chewing one’s baby’s food could be seen as a really sensible way to feed a baby to me, but I know others would argue it could be harmful. And I’m sure both sides could find experts to argue their position.

In the end, we need to let parents do what is best for their family without judgment.

Except, of course, for clearly creepy things like dressing their babies like strippers!

OK, so I’ve still got judgments, too…

Who Doesn't Make These Parenting "Mistakes"?!

Seriously, Parents magazine? You’re giving Jessica Alba a “Thumbs-Down” for not having the stroller hood closed on a sunny day?

Ever hear of vitamin D?

A photo feature “Celebrity Parenting Mistakes (& Successes!)” displays photos of Celebrity Momsters doing things like “Not Protecting Skin from the Sun,” “Drinking from a Bottle After Age 1,” and “Riding without a Helmet.”

Wow, are we really that desperate to point the parenting finger that we have to judge every little non-perfect parent action we see?

Man, I would be eaten alive in the press.

Are you guilty of any of these parenting “mistakes”?

Practicing Not Being Judgmental with Brad Pitt

I was thinking about this quote from Babyrazzi I read from Brad Pitt in which he talks about what he does to get his children moving in the morning.

“I admit there’s times like, ‘We gotta get up. Get up! ‘Here’s your shoes. Here’s your shoes. Drink this Coke. Drink this Coca-Cola. Drink it all. Right now! Drink it! Drink it! Drink it!’ Just so we could get ‘em up and going.”

At first I had this totally judgmental reaction where I was like—oh no, he didn’t!

Doesn’t he know how bad caffeine and sugar are for kids? And in the morning? What is he crazy?!

And then the next jump my judgmental parenting brain took was, wow, I’m a better parent than Brad Pitt! And I’ll admit I felt a little superior—than Brad Pitt, folks!

My daughter, who is seven, has only tried a sip of soda maybe three times in her life. My three-year-old doesn’t even know what soda is!

And then I heard myself and I was like, oh no, Sheila. I’m all about not judging. So then I had some work to do because I really don’t think soda is good for kids. I mean, like, it’s not just not good—it’s bad! And I know that’s a fact.

So how do I sit back and say, oh, okay, Brad, feed your kids soda in the morning?!

I tried to put myself in someone else’s shoes if they heard something I do with my kids that they totally disagree with. Could I find something so heinous as plying my kids with sugar and caffeine?

Umm, I do yell at my kids sometimes when I lose my temper and that’s pretty bad.

I wonder if Brad yells?

If not, maybe we’re even.

Oh, and then I also had the thought, maybe he was just joking?

Or!

Maybe he said this to somebody he wasn’t sure if they were really a friend or just nice to him because he’s famous to see if it would show up in the tabloids!

No Judgment Day For Moms!

MSNBC’s Today Moms and Redbook Magazine declare today No Judgment Day for moms!

The magazine’s effort to “end mom guilt now” is a movement meant to banish mom-on-mom criticism and instill some mommy pride among the mommy masses, says REDBOOK Editor in Chief Jill Herzig.

It’s truly amazing how judgmental we moms can be. Perhaps it’s because everything having to do with mothering is so controversial to someone else: do you breastfeed or bottle-feed? Do you work or stay-at-home? Do you spank or yell?

Whatever we do—there’s someone ready to judge it. And that’s why Celebrity Momsters are such an easy target—everything they do in public as moms is seen by the world and then we regular moms can judge it and feel better about ourselves.

To kick off its campaign, REDBOOK’s new Motherboard Blog Council asks moms to fill in the blank: “Don’t judge me because I …”

There are so many ways I could fill that in, but I’ll start by simply saying: Don’t judge me because I follow the five-second rule!