Bobbi Kristina Wants You To Know… (Response To Reality Show Critics) [PHOTOS + VIDEO]

[Edited 11/17/12 4:49am]

What I've been able to take from that show of theirs is that:

damn, it's not easy to raise teenagers

Bobby K. is a headstrong young woman with a streak of rebellion now discovering young love, the freedom of seemingly endless money and easy access to substances; obviously she loves her family dearly and has a very, very close relationship with them, and part of you can't be mad at a kid that still says yes m'am to her auntie and granny and never holds back a hug or an I love you...but that child's hormones are raging like crazy as she's clearly sprung off of her first love (who's just as clueless about life as any boy his age would be), and the two of them are carrying on like they're on the set of Romeo & Juliet or Endless Love. She's using this all consuming puppy love with booze (and looks a little like pills) to deal with her mommy's death, and it's making her difficult to handle.

This is a very precarious situation for her guardians, because on one hand you have to let her grow up, but you want to make sure she doesn't go down the wrong path (which she's clearly a ready & willing candidate for the way things are going)- and yet, you can't say too much or discipline her too hard, because she might fly the coup and get out there into the world where there really are going to be a lot of yes people just salivating to do her real harm..'specially once that Houston inheritance kicks in. The one thing that seems to work well with this young woman, though, is having something constructive to do with her creativity. I see now how the Tyler Perry project was actually very good for her focus. But without any way to channel herself, everything always comes back to running away with her boyfriend, laying up with him and boozing herself into oblivion. She needs guidance..hope she gets the help she needs to let the substance crutches go, so she can get clear and really work on the future she's always said in the past that she dreamed of in entertainment. On top of that, poor thing is too young to realize first puppy loves come and go so she can't see anything beyond her Nick. But then I guess young girls are always like this the first time around.