Alicia Silverstone feeds her son like a bird, parents call fowl

My wife was checking up on Facebook and she casually asked me if I’d seen the video of Alicia Silverstone feeding her son like a bird.  “Like a bird”, I asked, “You mean regurgitating it?”  She then went on to ask me if I knew what her son’s name was.  I guessed Robin, but that’s incorrect.

If his name was Robin it would be spelled ‘Robyn’ or some other trendy phonetic way.   In reality, his name is Bear Blu and he’s a cute 10 month old boy who is being fed from Alicia Silverstone’s mouth.  Watch the video at your own peril.

Isn’t there a clause in California child services that prohibits regurgitating food into your child’s mouth except in cases of celebrity emergency?  Look the paparazzi are nearby and you need to get your photo on TMZ.  Quick sweetie, eat your Miso Soup and then spit it into our son’s mouth.

In her defense she says that her son loves eating from her mouth and will crawl across the room to ‘attack her mouth’.  However, in the defense of parents I’ll say that your son needs to learn how to eat with a spoon.  It will help his motor skills, coordination and interpersonal abilities, assuming he’s not planning on dating birds when he’s older.

It’s all possible that this is a PR stunt from Silverstone.  If you look at the third photo or towards the end of the video she looks a little bit like she’s thinking ‘I can’t believe I just did that.’  If only she had that thought while reading the script for Batman and Robin.   There was nothing good about Batman and Robin except for the fact that it killed the franchise, which then led to Christopher Nolan taking over.

Why would a parent chew their child’s food and then spit it into their mouth?  The 20^th anniversary of Clueless isn’t till 2015; maybe she’s ramping up the press three years early.

I don’t have any reason to suspect that Silverstone is a bad parent.   I will say that her naming of the child Bear Blu is suspect.  Perhaps he’s destined to work at the Build A Bear store in Hollywood.  Maybe he’s starring in an update of The Care Bears as a new character, The Blu Bear, who’s always depressed because he can’t use a spoon.  Method acting, I get it now.

Memo to Hollywood stars: just because you can act weird doesn’t mean that you should act weird.  Years down the road Bear Blu’s friends will see the video of his mom regurgitating food for him and he’ll be teased relentlessly.   He’s a seemingly physically able 10 month old who is being treated like a damn bird.  Let him use a spoon, please.