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In her role on The King of Queens, actress Leah Remini sees right through manipulative schemes and has a low tolerance for B.S. However, when it comes to dealing with her four-year-old daughter in real life, Remini is about as tough as a fresh marshmallow.
"I'm very consistent; I give in," Remini shared on the Rachel Ray show, "My daughter runs the house." Daughter Sofia drinks six to eight bottles during the night which means many runs to the refrigerator and diaper changes for Leah and her husband Angelo.
This is obviously going to be a huge struggle and not just because Sofia's bottle habit has been sustained for years. During the show Remini said if pediatricians don't tell her what she wants to hear, she just finds a new one. And apparently telling her that her daughter is being manipulative is not what she wants to hear.
"Manipulating me to what? To love her? To hang out? What is she manipulating me to do?" Remini said.
It's not unusual for first time parents to be lenient and overly accommodating, but refusing to accept that a four-year-old is playing you when you are fetching six or more bottles every night AND changing the resultant wet diapers is more of an issue with the adult than it is with the child. This is a job for the Super Nanny, not Rachel Ray!
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 2)
4-28-2008 @ 1:29PM
Katie said...What do you expect from a "Scientologist"? I'm honestly not surprised. She's stupid enough to believe that science fiction crap, of course she's going to keep giving her kid whatever she wants.
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4-28-2008 @ 7:45PM
LuLu said...I think they are way too lenient with her which is probably not in her best interest or theirs but whatever...that's just my opinion. My bigger concern is that I'd be worried to death that kid has Type 1 diabetes with all the drinking and peeing she's doing!
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5-01-2008 @ 3:21AM
Stacy said...Four Years old and a bottle, absolutely not.
She needs to potty train her child and brake her child of this bad habits that Leah herself have caused....
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5-02-2008 @ 12:13AM
biscuit said...And here I thought it was nuts that Suri Cruise is 2 years old + still drinks from a bottle! Eeeeep!
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5-02-2008 @ 6:00AM
azcrum said...Well, first of all she needs to be off the bottle at age 4 and drinking 6 to 8 a night? That's a bit too much, I thinkl.
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5-03-2008 @ 11:29PM
jane said...She's 3, not 4, everybody.
5-04-2008 @ 8:59PM
cocobaker813 said...I watched the segment of the "Rachael Ray Show" that this blog is speaking of, and this piece skipped a lot of pertinent info that could change the opinions of some who say that Sofia's(Leah Remini's 4 year old)bottle habits at night are no big deal and that there should be no criticism. In the taped piece where Leah and Sofia are walking in the park and Leah's asking her daughter if she thinks that the "ba-bas" should stop. The child replied that she KNEW the ba-bas are bad and that she shouldn't be drinking out of them, but she wants them. A 4 year old child wants what they want when they want it. Sofia knows how to drink out of a cup and does it well. This is a classic power struggle between a parent and child, and Sofia already knows the bottles are something that she knows she'll get when she makes enough noise and trouble that her parents will give in and do anything to make her happy. I agree with some comments; if they give in with ba-bas as a 4 year old, what about when she's denied toys or the candy she wants when in a store? Or when she's refused the most expensive clothes or phone or MP-3 as a tween and teen? How are they going to deal with THOSE tantrums if they can't handle screaming and hyperventilating at 4? Why is the youngest member of the family running the household?
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5-10-2008 @ 6:04AM
Mama41 said...I am sure no one is reading this anymore, but I had to comment. My son will be 4 in June and is suddenly having sleeping issues. I sit here at 6AM having been up for 2 hours already, and up once every two hours before that. Yes, he has asked for drinks (bottle was gone at 1yo) and he wants to sleep with me. What did I do? Calmed him down (I guess he is suddenly afraid of the dark too), and ushered him back to bed. OVER AND OVER. Am I going to have some long tired days ahead (YUP), but I knew he was trying to manipulate me. So as much as it sucks, and it does. I can't let him in my bed, he may never leave. And I am also considering him here. If he continues to wake every two hours and we don't break this habit, he is going to be miserable. Things like potty training and taking a bottle are tough on the parents, but benefit the child. One thing that helped my son with independance and "being a big boy" was preschool.
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