Suri Cruise is an American Girl

#29 and the rest who feel she should be potty trained.

Most kids potty train between two and three. She still has time. And as some potty-training expert once said–(paraphrase) ‘it may take awhile, but have you ever seen a college student in diapers?’ It is far worse to force a child to potty train than to work at it gently. When you start to force the issue, it becomes a control issue. Which is not good for parents or child.

She should be off the bottle, but I believe I read somewhere that the Scientologists believe that it is a child’s choice to decide these things for themselves. So we’ll probably see her with a bottle in college.

#28 and #29

Calling this child autistic is really uninformed and ignorant. How quickly you forget the pictures of her in Germany laughing and playing at the playground. And there are other examples out there of her “engaging.”
Give the child a break. She is not yet 3 and followed by cameras and paps. I don’t see Shiloh constantly engaging or Violet Affleck, or Kingston or any other of the two-three years olds that are out and about with the current pap favorites. Brad Pitt has said several times that his kids are bombarded with flash cameras, paps, and crowds when they go out. Is it any wonder the truly A-lister stars’ babies have the ‘deer-in-the-headlight’ look when they are out?
If by some odd chance Suri is autistic, then yes, the Scientology church won’t recognize it and will try and treat it with herbs, vitamins, special mixtures made by the church and exercise. Isn’t Travolta’s son suppose to be autistic or something? As far as we all know, he has not consulted a doctor or if he has not said a word about a diagnosis. Just follows the church preachings.

“Calling this child autistic is really uninformed and ignorant. How quickly you forget the pictures of her in Germany laughing and playing at the playground. And there are other examples out there of her “engaging.””

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If there are other examples out there of her “engaging”, why don’t you post the links here so we can see them. You can’t because they don’t exist.

Suri has been in HUNDRED’s of photos since she was born, only ONE shows her smiling and that was in Germany over a year ago. So don’t tell anyone here that they’re wrong unless you can show otherwise. One of out hundreds is concrete evidence that there is something seriously wrong with her.

“We spent a lot of money going to top neurologists and it turned out that he is a completely normal and very social child, he just didn’t like that doctor and didn’t know how to express it with words.”
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#80 - Given your experience with your son and the totally unbelievable lack of logic you used to diagnose him, I suppose we could say that Suri is not engaging because she just doesn’t like Katie and Tom and she just doesn’t know how to express it with words.

LMAO!!!! I think you are right on, pooky……It’s not that she is autistic, it’s the freaks, Tom and Katie, that she can’t stand being around.

Seriously, I think this makes more sense than anything else that has been suggested here.

My favorite all American girls and they are the ultimate All American family representing Hollywood. A rare one that is.

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So the All American family belongs to a cult that thinks anyone who is not a Scientologist should be “disposed of without sorrow”? What kind of religion advocates something like that!!

Seriously. Learn about the cult Tom belongs to and dragged Katie into from thousands of people who escaped. They believe in destroying all psychiatrists, attacking anyone who disagrees with them, disconnecting from family members who say anything against their cult and lots more. Sorry but thats not my idea of an All American Family.

http://www.xenu.net

THIS MAKED MY SUNDAY A HAPPY ONE.

poppykai @ 07/20/2008 at 12:41 pm
My former ped. thought my son was autistic because he never engaged the doctor and threw a toy at him.
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Your former pediatrician is an idiot. You could have saved yourself a lot of money taking your child to all those neurologists. If my child responded to other people but wouldn’t engage the doctor and threw a shoe at him, I’d think he simply didn’t like that doctor and I’d find another one. Simple common sense.

Let me add here that many small children go through a phase where they are scared to death of doctors because they think they are going to get another shot. When my son was a year old, he used to start crying halfway down the block from the doctor’s office. He recognized the building the office was in and he was like “lemme outa here”. When I told my mom about it, she laughed and said I did the same thing when I was his age. Kids go through this a lot but they get over it.

Class act and real American
family and thanks jj for the watch info.
because I want one and
what is her orange bracelet stand for?

the child is almost 3 years old and still using a bottle and a diaper-what gives? ok the child could be in the process of being potty trained and the diaper could be one of those pull up things you see on tv. i’ll give them that. but the bottle??i hope that thing is full of water and not some sugary stuff. what’s wrong with a cute little sippy cup in what ever color/design the little one llikes.

as for the child being autistic; that i don’t know. i’m not a doctor and no responsible doctor that i know of would make a diagnosis like that just by looking at pictures. but look at what’s going on. everywhere this child goes the press follows.

she has had cameras and flashbulbs in her face since the beginning. i think what we see in the pictures is fear. she’s afraid of all these strangers. what i want to know is why katie and tom just dont say ENOUGH. no more!! take their child away and hide her for awhile. give the little one a break. let her be anormal little girl for once and not an appendage to two famous parents.

i work as a social worker of the dept of child and family services in new york. having said that; i have to tell you that you are way off the mark here. i agree that this child should not be using either a bottle or a soother as her age. her parents should know that. it indicates bad judgment on this issue; hopefully someone close to them will be able to convince these people of it. however; it does not mean Holmes and Cruise are incapable of parenting their child effectively.

i also have to tell you that being members of a cult, or followers of a religious group not universally approved of, doesnot automatically negate the rights of holmes and cruise to parent their child in the manner they see fit. i can point to courts cases all across the united states where judges have ruled in favor of parents who are involved in what we in the mainstream refer to as cults. being a memeber of a cult (scientologist in this case), in itself, does not automatically make you a bad parent. if that were true we would then have to remove every child from every mormon household in america. afterall, for many people; the church of latter day saints is also a cult.

as for complaining to the department of child and family services about these two parents; please!!!. you spend ten years doing my job; ten years of dealing with cases that come across not only my desk but the desks of my co-workers. i promise you at the end of it all you will have a new definition of bad parenting and children truely in need of protection.

to becca #28 @ 07/20/2008 at 2:53 pm

I am an adminstrator in an agency in contract with ACS. I fully agree with you that Cruise and Holmes cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called abusive or neglectful or even “bad” parents. They are very protective of Suri — my concern is that they are possibly overprotective. Being overprotective is not “bad” parenting but it neither does it help a child to grow and mature. But many parents who make the mistake of “overparenting” their first child, learn to let go a bit with the second child.

#95 and #96–
Thanks for being a voice of reason. However, #28 is living in lala land and probably won’t listen to a word you so eloquently said.