Violet Affleck is Super Scholastic

Deanna — Stop talking about a child.

Jen isn’t plain, she’s pretty.

That’s such a dumb complaint, #11. They like to and sometimes have to carry their kid. She won’t die if she is.

Why don’t you ask them, #14?

“…” is the one who is fug.

Nice-looking family. Violet is adorable.

I agree with you Heather. It seems that Suri is usually the only celeb child that we see not dressed for the cold weather.

They are a cute family.

Violet is a cutie. She looks more and more like Jen as she gets older.

Violet is a doll. What a cutie.

To those asking how old Violet is: she’s 3. Not quite three when most of the pictures were taken (she turned three on the 1st of December). If you research the statistics first before you make ridiculous accusations, you’d know that a large percentage of parents still carry their children right up until they are three or four, some even to age five. An enormous amount of children use pacifiers or suck their fingers until they are three or four. It’s considered a normal part of childhood development. Perhaps you’re the abnormal ones, not Violet.

As far as the paparazzi, I do agree that they follow celebrities far too much and often break the law to obtain pictures. However, a couple things to bear in mind. First, most celebrities set aside certain public times when they allow the paparazzi to photograph them, in an effort to keep the paparazzi away during more private times. It doesn’t always work, unfortunately, but I’m sure that shopping trips are amongst the times set up with the paparazzi to take pictures. I don’t see a problem with that, so long as they aren’t bothering the parents or child, not taking inappropriate pictures, and not endangering the child. The other thing to bear in mind, as you sit there condemning the papers and websites for publishing these pictures, is that we, as the general public, are at fault. We put these people - and their children - up on pedestals, treating them as something more than human, and then turn around and fault them for attracting so much attention. We do the same thing to celebrities with problems with alcohol or failed marriages - we treat these people as superhuman, and then can’t understand how they could possibly have the same problems as everyone else. We don’t condemn average people for divorce or drinking, we help them. Similarly, we don’t scream bloody murder when Average Joe puts pictures of his kids on the web, but God forbid a celebrity do it. If you don’t like celebrities having special rules attached, don’t treat them like they’re better than everyone else.