Dr. Phil McGraw’s always been quick to call a spade a spade, but his no-nonsense approach seems to have faltered when it comes to Lynne Spears. “She’s a great mother,” he said, adding that he knows the Spears family personally.

“They are looking for the positives,” he said, and he doesn’t mean a positive drug test, or a
positive pregnancy test either. Though the family’s been living under the spotlight, Lynne has “her feet squarely and solidly on the ground” and even now is turning to “prayer.”

Sorry, but those two kids clearly show a lack of self-esteem, value system, or groundedness, and Lynne’s stagemom stunts haven’t helped them a bit. Lynne may be trying her best but she’s in no position to dispense advice to other people about raising daughters. Or chiapets, for that matter.