Pink stops her concert to be a mom: In a parenting performance all moms would be proud of, she comforts the little girl, scolds some brawlers, and then offers a Rice Krispie treat.
Pink saw a young fan crying in the crowd at a recent show and stopped her performance to offer them a Rice Krispies treat. Here, Pink performs in the rain on NBC's 'Today' show on Sept. 18, in New York.
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EnlargeRebel Rocker, iconic bad girl,?Pink, is usually a show-stopper, but this week she took it literally when she spotted a little girl crying in the audience and shut-down her set to give comfort and, in a watershed moment, parented the crowd. That moment can serve to remind us that taking kids with us to events can be stressful, yet also have surprising benefits for everyone.
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Pink saw a young girl crying in the crowd at a show and stopped the set to help her out.Last week I wrote about Jada?Pinkett-Smith being a tiger-mom on Facebook and parenting the media over what she termed ?cyber bullying? attacks on young stars. Today we have another mom rocker,?Alecia Beth ?Pink? Moore who took her Philadelphia concert audience to task for fighting in the presence of a child. It?s starting to feel like if you want to be a mom who rocks you need to get ?pink? into your name somewhere.
It?s safe to say I was a timid mom at the start, 19 years and four sons ago. When my kids were younger I dreaded taking them out in public fearing the social spotlight of being the mom with the wailing kid. I remember leaving carts full of groceries behind to snatch up a crying son and get out of the store in Olympic-time to avoid the embarrassment. A concert of any kind would have been unthinkable, but after seeing Pink in action I realize maybe I missed a step on the parenting path that could have taken us someplace great.
Pink can be seen in a YouTube video (scroll down to view!), shot by a fan at her Philadelphia performance Sunday night.
In a very mommy moment the singer?s gaze sweeps the massive crowd, zeroes-in on a distraught little girl in the sea of noisy humanity, and asks in a no-nonsense voice: "Hold on. One second. Time out. Is everything OK right here? Is this little girl all right?"??
Mind you, this is a packed house and the entire audience is singing with her during the set, and yet she picks up on a child crying. She?s the mom of a little girl, age 2, and her thought is now rewired, tuned, like most moms? ears are, to screen out everything and hear the child crying. Who?s got the mom super power? Oh yeah, Pink?s got it big time.
Then, she very pointedly asks why the child?s upset. She?s not letting go, this is one big pink tiger mom sorting things out and in so doing, parenting the huge audience. This is not the kind of audience you find at a church choir sing-along, this is Philly and the woman who, while having?voiced a part in the children?s film "Happy Feet 2," also has washboard abs and was a powerhouse in the video for her new song ?Try? where she does an Apache dance with a guy who looks like an mixed martial arts fighter, while covered in neon chalk and not much else.
Much like any mom at home, she then learns?a fight in the crowd had frightened the girl and that?s when it gets interesting. "Y'all are?fighting?around a?little girl?" Pink demands in what the world now can reference as the mom voice multiplied by the wow-factor of coming over a state of the art sound system and the Pink pipes.
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