During her Tuesday podcast show, Tori Spelling asked her fans a daring question. Moments later, the Beverly Hills 90210 star confessed to being lazy and revealed some of her most outrageous parenting habits. The mom of five asks, “Am I a bad mom?”
While Tori Spelling, 51, chatted with her guest Debbie Gibson, 53, on her recent MisSpelling podcast, the two women talked about motherhood. Tori confessed to Debbie that, with five children over the years, she has become a lazy mom.
Laughing, Tori says, “It’s so bad. I’ve gotten so lazy with my youngest one because there’s so many, that at night I put him in his clothes for the next day. And convinced him that it’s cool to do that.” Seemingly setting herself up for a massive fan-thrashing, Tori Spelling coyly asks if that makes her a bad mom.
Experts Say Tori Spelling’s Lazy Parenting Habit Sparks Concerns
Tori shares five children, Liam, 17, Stella, 16, Hattie, 12, Finn, 11, and Beau, 7, with ex-husband Dean McDermott. The busy mom claims she has a lot on her plate now that she is a single mom. So, anyway she can find a shortcut to save time or make her day easier, she is there for it. Next, she explained and made light of her nightly routine with her youngest son, Beau.
“So, he has dinner, he takes his bath — sometimes— but then I’ll be like, ‘Hey, dude. It will save an extra five minutes if we get dressed now and then you can sleep later,’ ” she recalled of the initial conversation.
“And I can sleep later wink wink,” the mom of five said to Gibson. “So he’s like, ‘Yeah.’ So, he sleeps in his clothes. Am I a bad mom?”
According to the Daily Mail and Sleep.com, Dr. Natalie Blum claims that Tori Spelling and other parents who allow their children to sleep in clothes other than pajamas raise some concerns. Blum states, “The safety of pajamas vs daytime clothing is the most dangerous part of wearing clothes to bed.”
She explains that the Consumer Product Safety Act regulates children’s sleepwear and requires that ‘pajamas that aren’t very tight fitting must contain flame retardants.’ Other concerns include how decorative items, like sequins, buttons, and zippers, on day clothing can be choking hazards.
For the best and safest sleep hygene she says it is they recommend doing the exact same bedtime and morning routine daily. “Changing into pajamas just helps separate day from night, especially for younger children who are still setting up routines.”
As for Tori Spelling’s bad mom question, most parents agree with Dr. Blum. One commenter writes, ‘First off, that isn’t comfortable, and if the clothes are laid out the night before, it takes less than a few minutes to get the child dressed. She’s crazy to be acting like that’s normal.’
Another adds, “So little time to dedicate a couple of minutes to her kid in the morning… But time to share it on the internet. You have your priorities…And, yes, you are lazy, considering the job you have.” One more response to her question is a simple, “Yes, how can she even ask? She sounds proud of herself too, terrible mother.”
Now that Tori Spelling has exposed her lazy parenting habits, the audience is left wondering: Will she make a change? Or is Beau destined to have an uncomfortable night’s sleep and show up at school wearing wrinkled clothing?
