Richie: 'Jackson Kids Have A Chance To Be Normal' - Comments and Message Board
GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN..GOD PROTECT THEM WHEREVER THEY GO...AND BECAUSE THEIR FATHER WAS BIGGER THAN LIFE! THAT MAKES THEM NOT COMMON KIDS, NO MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY..THIS KIDS ARE NOT NORMAL KIDS. SO YES THEY NEED TO BE WATCH 24SEVEN! THIS WORLD WAS NOT FOR THEM, MICHAEL WAS PERFECT THEREFOR I'M SCARD FOR THIS CHILDREN THEY ARE SO NAIVE. GOD BLESS THEM...
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by RMQ
AND have they not learned to trust Michael. They being his family, friends, and media.Not one of them and not one of us knows the impact and daily life that Michael led. WE do not know how to live with such. I would bet everything I have that Michael's children are smarter and wiser than most of us. Let them decide. You just wait. They will step up into their father's humanitarianism. It will be huge. They will do it all in timing. Another thing Michael taught them.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by MJtheHuman
"Live A Normal Life?!"Huh.The normal being talked about means, blood suckers, selfishness, greed, hate, self satisfication, falsely accusing, Did I say hate and ignorance!Michael's teachings to his children were education, love, peace, humility, help thy neighbor.The media and some have it wrong AGAIN with Michael.Such a shame.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by MJtheHuman
I think when MJ left his kids with his mom he realized there would come a day when the kids would have to socialize with others.Katherine and her family probably weighed the pros and cons.Michael obviously trusted his mom with his kids so we should also.I just hope whatever happens that the kids are okay.People will unfortuantly be mean and hopefully the kids can handle it and the media will always be in their life because MJ was one heck of a father,a son,humanitarian,and singer/songwriter.Anytime anyone thinks of MJ they will think of his kids he left behind.I bet MJ is a angel and is watching over them.God bless the Jacksons
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by mjw1979
i just wanna clarify that they call it "public" school, but its NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL. it is a PRIVATE and VERY EXPENSIVE school where other celebs went and go. i know that for a fact cause i am Katherine's NEIGHBOR. and to answer the questions one of you had, YES, the kids still have bodyguards everywhere they go, they still use the same dark SUV Michael had, and they are protected whenever they go out, even when they go a couple blocks down to their karate class. they call it "public" meaning that they "are going to a school out in the public with others and not home schooled". thats why i think they call it "public". i think that home schooling for these kids its better cause they are not common kids. and i dont mean that they are not common because they are MJ's kids, but because they are not COMMONLY BEHAVED. todays kids do not behave like them. these are EXTREMELY well raised kids with EXTREMELY GOOD BEHAVIOR and POLITENESS and MORALS. therefore they are not COMMON, which makes them NORMAL. dont confuse these 2 words. NORMAL does not mean COMMON. and COMMON does not mean NORMAL. its completely THE OPPOSITE. today whats COMMON is 'not' NORMAL. understand?... todays kids have really bad manners, are impolite and do all kinds of crazy things. these kids dont know ANY of that. and i think that making them INTERACT w kids that have poor manners, will SPOIL THEM. i think that SADLY they ARE already different from the kids u used to see WITH MICHAEL by their side. for example PARIS now looks completely different and is not the same classy childlike/ appropriate for her age look she had with Mike. all this past year we saw her w her nails painted, she chopped her hair to a more TEENAGE look, she gained plenty of weight (that means shes not into the healthy food mike used to give them) and doesnt dress nice like before. that tells me that she is NOT having the same upbringing Mike gave her. and this CRUSHES ME, cause i LOVE these kids and how they are cause MIke did SUCH A GREAT JOB raising those kids. those kids are not common IN THAT SENSE. they are too good to be true for todays manners. and I LOVE THAT. and i know that EVENTUALLY will go away, specially cause they are going to be exposed to other kids with todays bad manners, and because MICHAEL IS NOT THERE TO RAISE THEM, ITS SOMEONE ELSE. PERIOD. i consider katherine a great person and she is doing the best she knows, but shes NOT MICHAEL. michael is BEYOND BELIEF for EVERYTHING he did. even to raise kids he was AMAZING and OUT OF THIS WORLD. think also that these kids are living with many of their cousins (jermaines and randys kids) in the same house which also are different from michales kids. they dont have the same upbringing. they dont have the same AMAZING manners. i dont know... i feel...i dont know...i cant find the words....maybe FRUSTRATION is what i feel. IMPOTENCE.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by MilenaK
I doubt very much that Lionel Richie was being at all disrespectful to MJ when he had this conversation. The media always takes comments out of context and in that way creates bias in the minds of the reader, intentionally or otherwise. I daresay that Lionel meant that the children led perhaps a less than usual life whilst MJ was alive. That life for them is sadly over, and going to school may mean they will learn to interact with the broader community and learn to stand their ground amongst their peers. Paul McCartney, I believe, sent his children to (public?) schools and even the children of royals are not necessarily shielded from society that much. Granted, being MJ's children is not the same! It could be tough for them, but slowly but surely the will succeed. They are obviously well-adjusted, smart people and that will stand them in good stead.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by 77lotusflower
I hope this conversation was taken out of context, because to me, this sounds like a harsh, rude comment to make considering that Richie was a close friend of Michael's. To say their lives weren't normal doesn't seem fair. How normal could life ever be for the kids of a man as famous as MJ? Besides, their lives with their loving father was all they knew, so to them, that WAS normal. Many people that knew MJ commented on what an excellent father he was. To me, Richie's comments could have even been a little "sour grapes", because we all know the troubles he went through with Nichole. She seems to be doing okay now, but things were a bit shaky for a while. I believe Michael was smart to leave his kids in his mother's care. He knew her well and Katherine knows what MJ wanted for his children. She will always consider what MJ wanted for his children and base her decisions carefully from that. She is trying to put friends in their lives and help them through the tragic loss of their father, while giving them the best education possible.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by Rochelle
The article is in error since Paris and Prince are going to a private school. And, I mean no disrespect to Lionel but it's pretty scary if this "normal" thing is like the stuff that goes on with some of the school's alumna like Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton. YIKES!
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by SWB
The idea of having MJ's kids attend a public school to make them "normal" is ludicrous. They are NOT normal because they are MJ's kids. They should attend the school that is BEST FOR THEIR SAFETY, EDUCATION, AND WELL BEING. If that happens to be home schooling than so be it!! Many every day parents are taking their children OUT of the public school system because it's not the best thing for their children for many reason. I respect Katherine Jackson but I hope they are not being NAIVE in thinking putting the kids in a "normal" school will result in normalcy for them. Normalcy has NOTHING to do with where you are schooled. Michael is PROOF that they were raised very well. Observe them in MJ's death? Where do you think they got that from? MICHAEL!! Those kids were raised by MICHAEL and the proof he did a helluva job comes from who they are NOW.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by MJFan1
Those kids will NEVER have a normal life. Whether Michael is alive or dead, he is still the person who raised them & therefore they live in his shadow by association. Lisa Marie Presley was once marri(ed) to Michael & then went on to marry a man named Michael Lockwood. Notice she "was" (past-tense) married to MJ yet people STILL refer to her as "Michael Jackson's ex-wife". It's rather disrespectful to her current husband but the media STILL does it. Those kids will be followed,mocked, and harassed forever now that their father is gone. Those kids are in the media every five minutes now. Was it like that when Michael was alive???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"Normal" is relative. Did Michael have a "normal" life?? NO. It was impossible & he wasn't like everyone else so why should he have tried to be "normal". His talent & success wasn't normal, his genius wasn't normal, therefore he wasn't normal and DID NOT have to be!!!!!The media needs to LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!!! Let them have the privacy and peace their father did NOT have. Let them be who "they" want to be, NOT what the media says they should be. End of story. Lionel should be more mindful when speaking to the press about Michael, they usually twist people's words & make them sound negative. I'm sure that wasn't his intention.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by sityourassdownusher
I would like to have read Lionel's complete conversation as I'm sure this was edited, but for ANYONE to even suggest that Michael's children now have an opportunity to live a normal life is an insult to Michael. Michael's children always lived a normal life. Life to them with their Daddy was THIER normal life, the life they live now without their Daddy is not. I also believe that Michael's wishes should be honored by continuing to home school the children until the children themselves request otherwise because I'm sure Michael would trust their judgment. God Bless you and your children always Michael!
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by Loric
I know Lionel means well, but the 'tone' of his comment (which I'm sure has been edited), isn't very complimentary . . . Yes, Michael was larger than life, but to suggest w/their father no longer in their lives, the kids are better off . . . ? I know that's not what he said, but that's the, uhhh - gist of it, or rather, what I got out of it . . . maybe it's just me.Normal. They've always been normal. The media would have you believe otherwise (thus, this article-again, which I'm sure has been biasly edited).Being schooled @ home isn't abnormal - it's called "Home-schooling."Are they being picked up & dropped off? By whom?Are the bodyguards still around?Are they still traveling in big black vehicles w/extra darkly-tinted windows?Why not private school? Families who aren't as financially blessed as the Jacksons enroll their kids in private school for various reasons - safety & structure, being a couple of them (aside from educational opportunities).Yep, you're right, it's not my call (or my business, for that matter).OK, I guess I'll shut up, now ;-)
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by An Marie
Love Lionel, Love Katherine, Love the kids--------- but putting them in public school is a disaterous idea!!!!! I'd keep teaching them the way their daddy did, thats what he wanted and yes they dont have many friends but i feel this is a bad idea. Michael wanted it that way and they should obey him. They are HIS kids. HIS choice.
Posted 13 years 8 months ago by Alissa Jackson
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