Brad Maddox Toy Shopping

I love to see men bond with their children. Brad truly loves that little boy. I absolutely love the picture of Brad cradling a sleeping Maddox as he gets out of the car. It’s so precious and you can tell Brad is rellishing every moment of ‘Daddy and Maddox’ time.Maddox has to be a preferred customer of these toy stores. I swear the kid has stock.

Did anyone find out why he’s there…in NYC that is…….surely businesses

surely businesses

I am not sure if Brad loves the kids or is in love with being a daddy. He is obsessed!

I just love seeing them together. Braddox rules!

Yeah… What’s up with all the travelling… These folks are overdoing it..

In the picture with Maddox holding the Monde de Bebe bag, it looks like they were leaving their appartment ……..yes they are leaving their home with the bag.

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I don’t think they’re travelling *that* much. They seem to be making an extended stay in Paris now that neither one of them is shooting a movie. Looks like they may be planning to have the baby there. Heck, they may even decide to move to France and living there for a bit could be a way of figuring out if they like it enough to make a permanent move. France has by far the most restrictive laws on paparazzi of any country. They passed those laws right after Princess Diana died, and the photographers can still photograph you, but they can’t get in close. I believe there’s also a rule that they can’t photograph you by long-lens when they’re on private property - i.e. the pics of BP, AJ, and Maddox in England on the dirtbike, which were taken when they were in the grounds of Angie’s house, probably would be illegal). Notice how the pictures in France all seem to have been taken from reasonably far away, when they’re close ups it’s obvious they’re using a zoom lens, and BP and AJ generally look very relaxed. They have to keep their distance or get arrested, so BP, AJ, and the kids don’t get hassled. In the US, for instance, if you notice when AJ left BP’s house in Malibu with Zahara in the Snugli, the first pictures ever posted of Zahara, there was one shot where you could see her just outside the entrance gate to BP’s house, with photographers swarming all around her. There must have been twenty of them waiting outside the house, and they all rushed forward to take pictures of AJ and Zahara. Also, I saw a pic a while back that was a close-up of AJ and Maddox by their car, and there were obviously other photographers right there, almost close enough to touch her, the kid, or the car. AJ was looking pissed off, and Maddox was looking pretty gloomy. There’s no rule for them to keep their distance, so they can get in really close, which would be scary for kids. You’ll notice also that Maddox looks much more relaxed and animated in the Paris pics than in pics taken elsewhere. He probably hasn’t realized there’s a guy taking photos from way across the street. And even if he does, it’d be a heck of a lot less invasive than someone coming right up to him and sticking a camera in his face. We’ve also seen them doing a lot more ‘normal’ family stuff in public since they arrived in France. Going grocery shopping, eating lunch in a restaurant, going to the carnival, playing toy cars in a park, BP and Maddox playing in a park another time (with the huge bottle of Orangina that little Maddox could barely lift). If you’re a famous person and you don’t want to raise your kids in a compound with ten foot high walls and have them never leave, well, you could do worse than live in a country where a photographer can be arrested for coming within a certain distance of you. Means the pics are long-range and not so invasive. Which is good, because I love BAMZ pics as much as the next person, but in so many pics they look so harassed, like they have to run a gauntlet of twenty jostling guys with cameras just trying to leave an airport. Okay for adults who’ve chosen to be public figures as their career, I guess, but unfair on kids. Maybe they’re trying to decide if they want to settle down in Paris or nearby by living here for a while now. Paris has good hospitals, lots of cultural destinations and kid-friendly places, etc. I’m pretty sure AJ speaks French. BP would have to learn, but you can get by reasonably well in most of Paris without much French. And both within the city itself and in the western suburbs there are English-language schools, including an American school, a British school, and several international schools. Mind you, they may continue to bring the kids with them when they’re shooting movies, and hire tutors for them when they’re in the elementary grades. They seem to really like travelling, and movie shoots are several months long, so it’s a long time to be separated from kids and from each other (if one parent stays home with the school-aged children and one goes to shoot a movie in another country). And they can afford to hire a good tutor. But at some point tutors won’t cut it and they’ll need to enroll those kids in regular schools. I mean, even if they’re learning fine, past a certain age they need the socialization of school.An elderly lady I know through my mom said she and her brother spent most of their childhoods travelling around the world, and only went to real school when they hit the teen years. She, her brother, and her mom left Germany when she was just a toddler, after the Nazis arrested her father and put him in a concentration camp for political prisoners (where he later died, unfortunately). So his family left for Paris, and his wife, a single parent with two kids to support, was a classical musician. At first she tried to just teach music, but she wasn’t making a living at it, so she joined an orchestra that did a lot of touring, and brought the kids with her. They went all over Europe in the ’30s, then did a lot of touring in North America when she and the kids fled to America in 1940, when France was occupied. And then after the war, they ended up living in Canada. She still toured a lot for work, but when they hit high school age, she enrolled her kids in boarding school because they needed to get serious about their education. And her kids did just fine with being on the move all the time until about age 13. One became a lawyer and one a university professor. But yeah, getting back to the actual POINT of this thread, if they were planning to make a permanent move to France, there are lots of good ENglish-language schools in Paris for when the kids are older.

Wow, that seems….really quite dumb. I had taken the public statements re: wanting privacy at face value.

margot, try not to polish brad pitt that much. he cannot be a good father since he never was a good husband. he should go and fool someone else. i admire your time and energy to write about a white trailer trash - they deserve each other totally.

Margo……a word…….too much info…..keep it to yourself…..no one cares!

People needs to let go when things doesn’t work out and love is nowhere to be found. Seven years of younger years are more than enough for Brad to wait for his dream to come true in which case the supposed partner is selfishly taking for granted. Hey! everyone this is Hollywood! Different from day to day normal peoples’s lives. Brad & Angie had fallen in love, decided to have their biological child together, let them have piece and happiness. The kids needed them the most. Love is forgiving, Jen needs to go own and wish Brad & Angie happiness and this is what Jen’s friends should feel as well for the sake of the children. One couldn’t hold on to someone just because of a piece of paper if love is gone. You have to let go and find happiness again somehow..somewhere..with someone..