penis candy controversy

penis candy controversy

The internet is all in a tizzy today over these pictures of Suri Cruise holding a package of Penis Gummies. Yes, you read that correctly. Penis Gummies.

Here what we know: Suri joined her movie star mom as she met up with friends late last night at New York Serendipity restaurant. Before heading home well after midnight the group paid a visit to the eatery store, where the pretty preschooler was snapped clutching the x rated treats.

Here what nobody seems too sure about: While some media insist that the former Dawson Creek star bought the candies for Suri, according to others, Cruise missus did not end up purchasing the scandalous confection. Those remained on the shelf.

In any case, Katie who has already taken flack for the bottles, the heels, the make up, the pacifier finds herself in hot water yet again. Holmes won be winning any prizes for her questionable parenting techniques, says the Daily Mail. FAIL, adds Babble.

I don understand a lot of what goes on in the Holmes Cruise household (but oh, I would love to be a fly on that wall), but I think I give Katie the benefit of the doubt on this one provided she didn actually buy the snack. Honestly, I find Suri midnight outing odder than the fact that she was holding the treats.

My own 4 year old who only recently learned the proper words for body parts actually started very loudly singing about penises while we were at the aquarium last weekend. I was a bit embarrassed, but at least I didn have to worry about it making tabloid headlines the next day.

What do you think about the latest Suri scandal?

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A lot of judgement goes into the penis candy story. Who knows if Suri actually knew what shape they were in? Who knows who gave them to her? We don know the details and as a mother of an almost 4 year old, I can tell you I had some embarressing moments that if someone judged me by just seeing that moment, they would get a very wrong picture of me as a mother. Yes, it probably wasn in great taste to have her daughter carrying those candies around especially if you are in the light of media all the time but it really doesn tell you about the state of her parenting.

This is simply ridiculous. I don't know how Suri is raised in a more general sense perhaps Katie Holmes is the worst mother in the world, I have no idea but this incident in isolation surely does not merit such negativity. So the little girl was holding a pack of sweets shaped like a boy part it is adult interpretation that is rendering this inappropriate. To a little girl, she might as well be eating gummi legs or arms; she's just eating sweets shaped like a body part. If this is the worst thing Katie Holmes ever does as a mother, I think she's doing okay.

And a four year old was out late, are we simply looking for things to criticise Katie about? My son's usual bedtime is about half past eight or so, but, sure, there are evenings he goes to bed much later. At family occasions or other special events, he might be seen awake much later. But that's a once off, and he gets back to his routine the following night. I remember, as a child, the odd late night for a special event, and the absolute magic of it. What on earth is wrong with that?

If these incidents are part of a grander scheme of poor parenting, then that's unfortunate for poor Suri, but, either way, I can't help feeling that Katie is 23isBACK Release Dates on the receiving end of a lot of harsh judgment. Maybe we wouldn't make the choices she's making, but isn't she entitled to make them anyway? Her daughter doesn't seem to be suffering any visible harm, and I'm sure we all do things that others would condemn.

Suri a little jetsetter for all we know, she could be adjusting from a different time zone and that why she out late. Or her body clock is set on a different schedule than most kids because that when her parents get to spend time with her. Or maybe she just a spoiled brat with horrible parents. Who knows? My husband a musician and it a huge (and rare) treat for my son to be able to stay up late and see Daddy play when he playing at an appropriate venue, like an outdoor festival. I sure there are people who think I a terrible mom when they see him in front of the stage dancing his little butt off at 11pm, but they haven seen the full day of preparation that went into that one special outing.

Penis candy is certainly far from appropriate for a kid, but I know that my son would have picked it right up if he seen it and laughed himself silly. He would have shown everyone around him, too. There not much that funnier to a preschooler!

Yeah, I was also a little disturbed by the midnight outing. But I give Katie the benefit of the doubt, too. Kids pick up all sorts of things at the store that we as the parents have to put back down. My very smart five year old would not recognize those gummies as being penises, and I bet Suri doesn either. Whether or not she bought them for Suri, I guessing they are not X rated to the little girl, but just candy. I sure glad the paparazzi don catch oddly timed pics of my kids or the world might be able to draw horribly untrue conclusions about my family.

I agree why was this little girl out at midnight hanging out with grown women?! Im not one to jump to conclusions or what not but it really does seem that Katie is too worried about having alittle buddy then having a daughter. It really irks me as a mother when other mothers use thier daughters as thier best friends instead of being a parent to them. I agree Suri probably just saw candy. I dont think anyone is saying that didn I question why a 4 year old girl is in a store that sells that kind of thing? As far as the commenter about a child going into spencers, well I can honestly say I have never EVER taken my children into that store. No way no how! I mean seriously. I was a friend with a girl who had a daughter at 17 and I had no children at the time and yes I remember us three going into spencers on mall trips and one particular time her daughter who was 2 picked up a dildo off the bottom shelf while we were looking at tshirts. THe shelf was right behind us so she wasnt far from us at all. Not something I want my kids asking questions about. There is no way she could come out a winner in that situation. I agree that an occasional outting past bedtime, even way past, is fun for most kids! It is a special treat for them. And since there was nothing written about any bad behavior, she was probably acting very well, which would suggest that she had taken a late nap to get ready for the evening. Katie may not have even known what was in the store, but assumed that there wasn anything bad since it was attached to a resturaunt. It is possible that Katie saw something she wanted to look at, walked up to it without noticing the penis gummies, and then Suri went to grabbing! I know that my kid seems to be drawn to picking up things she isn supposed to.

I think that everyone needs to just leave this poor family alone. There isn a single mother out there that hasn done something that, had they been a celebrity and followed around 24/7 by cameras, would have shocked the media and made millions talk bad about their parenting skills.

Of course this picture is going to generate some criticism, and it really should. On the other hand it shouldn be used as a basis for rendering a judgemental verdict on her parenting skills.

My issue is that Tom and Katie seem to really enjoy the attention the press gives Suri. They talk about her a lot in interviews and she is always dressed so perfectly that it seems she is almost a prop for generating headlines. They aren exactly innocent bystanders in the whole media obsession with Suri.

Other celebrity parents have been much less public about their kids, and guess what, we rarely hear about them. Frankly, people associate Tom and Katie more with Suri than movies these days. It is hard for me to feel sorry for Tom and Katie given how much public they are in how they raise Suri.

Really? They on PST? Well then that isn tooooo late. I just wouldn do it I have visions of the same baby kicking me at bedtime when she 5 And I think every mom has the right to be out at night and have someone care for their kids and put them to bed and stuff, whether it a nanny or a babysitter or a family member. Every mom deserves that. But you right she be criticized either way.

I am pretty bothered by two things: 1.) That she was out so late and 2.) that she was in a store that sells those type of things.

I have no doubt, as someone already pointed out, that Suri probably didn know they were penises. She probably just wanted candy, and they looked good. But I wouldn take my child into a store that sells those types of things, so he wouldn see them to want them.