Bad move, Farrah
Parenting is tough... for anyone. Parents are expected to catch everything, know everything, and take care of everything, all while making it look like a piece of cake. It can be very overwhelming. There are parents in their thirties and fourties struggling to juggle the demands of parenthood, so imagine how hard parenting is for a teenage-to-early-twenties mom.
If Teen Mom has taught viewers anything, its that parenting is undoubtedly tough, especially for young moms, single or taken. There will be growing pains. Of course, when you're a Teen Mom star, your growing pains are publicized.
No one knows the heat of the spotlight like Farrah Abraham. Her parenting mistakes stay in the headlines. How else is she supposed to know that she's doing it wrong, though? Feedback is vital for the learning process.
Here are a couple times, for your reference and Farrah's, that Farrah should have, maybe, just... not.
One: Sophia and Simon
Twenty-five(ish)-year-old Simon Saran is a real-estate broker and businessman. He and Farrah began their infamously unstable relationship back in January 2015. Headlines practically praised Farrah on her and Simon's one month anniversary, as no one thought she was capable of holding down a man.
The same outlets, with different headlines, bashed the Teen Mom star for "pushing" Sophia onto Simon too early.
Moving Too Fast
On the day that Sophia and Simon met, in a May 2015 episode of Teen Mom OG (about five months into their relationship), Farrah, Simon, and Sophia found themselves in a car together. Farrah asked Sophia if she wanted Simon to sit in the backseat with her. After Sophia said yes, Simon seemed less than happy to oblige.
Nevertheless, he did it. After Sophia fell asleep, Farrah moves her off her lap and onto Simon's. "Babe, why are you forcing this? Let her relax!" Simon snapped.
Simon and Sophia are as thick as thieves now, two years later, but at the time... No one blamed Simon for feeling uncomfortable with Farrah's pushy behavior. Single moms came out of the woodwork, explaining the proper way and time to introduce your kid to someone you're dating. An overall consensus agreed it was too early and poorly executed.
Two: Sophia and Breaks from her Mom
Unfamous (aka regular) moms pray or wish for breaks from their children, living off daydreams of weeks abroad. The responsible parents find their sustenance in the daydreams and move on, finishing that load of laundry they started.
Farrah, on the other hand, doesn't feel the need to pine for time away from her child. The starlet finds it healthy for her and her young offspring to have time away from each other.
"It's healthy that we have a break," Farrah said. "She has her own life and is doing her own thing, and I'm doing mine." At the time that Farrah made this comment, Sophia was four.
People are still questioning what a four-year-old's "own thing" is. In Farrah's defense, she was leaving Sophia for work; her role as a porn princess was at its peak at the time. Appearances and filming took a chuck of Farrah's schedule.
Three: Sophia and the Sex Tappe
Speaking of Farrah's porn princess days... This list wouldn't be complete if it didn't include the time Farrah revealed that she planned on showing Sophia her sex tape, Back Door Teen Mom, when she was ready to start dating.
In 2013, Farrah did an interview on King Mac Radio, an online entertainment radio show. While there, she recited the infamous words: “When she’s around 13 or 14, gets on her period, and is like, ‘Ooh, I kinda want a boyfriend,’ I think that’s the year to be like, ‘Look Soph…’”
Farrah followed up, saying, “I have a baby box for her, it has all the DVDs of Teen Mom, it has my book and of course, my [porn] video. Us going through these things together will make her life a whole lot easier.”
Indiscretions
Sharing your mistakes with your children will save them a ton of time, tears, and tribulations. Farrah's logic behind wanting to show Sophia her tape is arguably admirable, but fans weren't trying to hear that... They accused Farrah of not be ashamed of her indiscretions.
If we're being realistic though... The internet is a cruel, brutally honest place. If a random stranger doesn't send it to her one day, Sophia is bound to find her mom's tape on her own eventually. The same could be said for Kim K's little ones.
If, by some unfortunate chance, Sophia goes on to make her own sex tape, Farrah will be there to talk her though it. Farrah said: “She probably won’t be saying that, she’ll be like, ‘I HAD to try it,’ and then I’ll be like, ‘Oh, you already did it, so I’m just going to make sure you know what you’re doing with it,’ because, you know, I’ll be like ‘this is what happened to me as your mom.’”
Four: Sophia and Fans
While Farrah quickly adjusted to (and embraced) the spotlight MTV gave her, Sophia struggled to do the same. Farrah doesn't allow Sophia to shy away though; as the loving, encouraging mom she is, Farrah is teaching Sophia "empathy."
"Sophia is so quick to be like, 'I don't wanna take a photo,' or, 'I don't really want to talk to them,'" Farrah explained. "I understand that there's a lot of people on us a lot of time and it's a lot of giving, but I also want her to know that these people probably waited hours to meet her ... So it's just really helping her be more, I guess, empathetic, with her fans, and really knowing what they're going through to meet her."
Encouraging a child out of shyness is one thing, but pushing a six-year-old outside of her comfort zone and into fame is another thing.
Five: Sophia and Cosmetics
Farrah is really into her looks. Makeup, fashion, plastic surgery... Any thing dealing with Farrah's appearances is pretty high on her priority list. Farrah's insistence on looking good reaches to Sophia in some questionable ways.
Not only does Farrah allow Sophia to wear makeup to school, she fought the school's principal on the matter. "So I said to them — and I proved my point because then the principal switched schools — I go, 'Well then you should take off your makeup. If you don't want little girls coming to school with makeup then don't wear makeup,’” Farrah said. “And then ever since I've seen that principal she hasn't had makeup on her face."
Back up a few years, to when little Sophia was three years old, Farrah shared the story of how she waxed Sophia's eye brows. (One more time... Farrah Abraham waxed a three-year-old's eyebrows.) In 2013, Farrah wrote on her blog:
“I told sophia (my daughter who is a late 3 years old) of the little issue on her brow, and I showed her how I waxed mine off, so I tryed to wax her,” Farrah wrote on her Sulia blog, adding, “...sophia was freaking out, so I had to act like it was a cool science project to get the wax off. PLOT TO END THIS: Sophia feel a sleep, I got my tweezers and Pluck-pluck-pluck...”
Because plastic surgery is always okay
Moms everywhere came forward to school Farrah on instilling body-positivity in children. Farrah never pays attention to the advice of other's though.
Weeks later, in an interview, she voiced her opinion on Sophia and plastic surgery, saying “So when Sophia is at the age where she wants her teeth to be cosmetically done or maybe get a breast augmentation, or she is questioning, ‘Hey mom I envision myself like this, I’m not myself,’ of course I am going to be supportive and make her feel loved and like herself." She added, "I would find the best doctor and be there for her.”
Oh, Sophia...
At the end of the day, Farrah loves her kid. No one can deny that. Sometimes all that love just comes out wrong.
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