Far be it from us to criticize another Momma. Oh, who do we think we're kidding? Half the fun of having a kid is that you finally have the right to tell everyone else how to raise them. So here goes. I normally try to restrain myself but when it comes to smoking around little kids, I get downright rude. I was already surprisingly grateful at the outcome of the Britney Spears and Kevin Federline custody case over sons Sean and Jayden (K-Fed got them both). But the New York Post makes the case that her limited access to them is still too much. The tab had a front-page picture Tuesday of Britney smoking as she chats with her 2 year old as Sean fingers her pack of Marlboros and a lighter. Later pictures did show Spears grabbing the lighter and cigs from the tyke's hands, ya'll. But I wish her parenting plan included keeping cigarette smoke as far away from their little lungs as possible. If she can't quit, I wish she would never let her kids even know she smokes so they don't grow up thinking it's something to emulate.

-- Sharon Kennedy Wynne