Kevin Cronin: You Need to Fall to Rise | Newsweek Turning Points

Posted By: cardinals06 @ 05/01/2008 7:21:19 PM

Comment: Oops! I meant Picasso

Posted By: cardinals06 @ 05/01/2008 7:12:46 PM

Comment: Wow. Alot of angry people out there. Why is being proud of a child for overcoming great adversity considered so meaningless. Just because he is a Rock n Roll singer he is immediately dismissed as a glory whore or sell out. This Artist celebrated his son's achievement as a theme for an album. This shows a Proud Parent more than a 'sell out' . Singers deal with these emotions thru songs, if he was a painter, would we have people slamming his latest artworks? Van Gogh had his Blue period. Lighten up people and be happy for a family for a change.
A. Venneman

Posted By: markma @ 04/28/2008 10:44:43 PM

Comment: Every parent has an easy tug at their heart strings when it involves a child struggling through the very difficult obstacles of becoming an adult. So let me apologize from the get go. I'm cynical. The underlying theme seemed to be much more of an expose on an aging, "has been" rock star who is trying to prove to the world that he's still got the good life and, by the way, has a new album coming out, less about a truly sincere warning or plea to other parents about child addiction.

I would have preferred to hear the story from Kevin's first wife, from Paris himself or Kevin's other children's perspectives. Maybe the story is actually about the hubris of parents, absorbed in their own lives, and their inability to see their kid's troubles.

Mark Miller

Posted By: markma @ 04/28/2008 10:44:35 PM

Comment: Every parent has an easy tug at their heart strings when it involves a child struggling through the very difficult obstacles of becoming an adult. So let me apologize from the get go. I'm cynical. The underlying theme seemed to be much more of an expose on an aging, "has been" rock star who is trying to prove to the world that he's still got the good life and, by the way, has a new album coming out, less about a truly sincere warning or plea to other parents about child addiction.

I would have preferred to hear the story from Kevin's first wife, from Paris himself or Kevin's other children's perspectives. Maybe the story is actually about the hubris of parents, absorbed in their own lives, and their inability to see their kid's troubles.

Mark Miller

Posted By: markma @ 04/28/2008 10:39:51 PM

Comment: Every parent has an easy tug at their heart strings when it involves a child struggling through the very difficult obstacles of becoming an adult. So let me apologize from the get go. I'm cynical. The underlying theme seemed to be much more of an expose on an aging, "has been" rock star who is trying to prove to the world that he's still got the good life and, by the way, has a new album coming out, less about a truly sincere warning or plea to other parents about child addiction.

I would have preferred to hear the story from Kevin's first wife, from Paris himself or Kevin's other children's perspectives. Maybe the story is actually about the hubris of parents, absorbed in their own lives, and their inability to see their kid's troubles.

Mark Miller

Posted By: markma @ 04/28/2008 10:39:17 PM

Comment: Every parent has an easy tug at their heart strings when it involves a child struggling through the very difficult obstacles of becoming an adult. So let me apologize from the get go. I'm cynical. The underlying theme seemed to be much more of an expose on an aging, "has been" rock star who is trying to prove to the world that he's still got the good life and, by the way, has a new album coming out, less about a truly sincere warning or plea to other parents about child addiction.

I would have preferred to hear the story from Kevin's first wife, from Paris himself or Kevin's other children's perspectives. Maybe the story is actually about the hubris of parents, absorbed in their own lives, and their inability to see their kid's troubles.

Mark Miller

Posted By: wildrice @ 04/27/2008 6:58:17 PM

Comment: The story is an excellent one that needs to be told. It said a couple of things really. That young rockers gain maturity and realize something greater thatn themselves and their moment in time and also the truth about addiction be it drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling or whatever. The greatest line that comes from this story is when his son was "tired of the same old story". Tht what addiction gives when it time to come down. The same old story. Usually damaged relationships, penniless, and most of all feelings of worthlessness. Only when one fills thier time with constructive activitieis which Paris was dong do we realize what our true potential is. No one can say it or care about it like a loving parent. Thank you for sharing this story and may you continue to be inspired by those things greater than ourselves.

Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/27/2008 10:39:13 AM

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Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/27/2008 10:38:47 AM

Comment: Oppose France, England, Germany, Japan ,USA???
Oppose CNN is not actual report to China!
CNN's Jack Cafferty is a ignorant garbage???

Sustain the Beijing Olympics!
Tibet is inviolable territory in China from time immemorial, China never relinquished control of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is Chinese splittist.

France, Germany, England, Japan, American people does not understand reality of Tibet!
Occidental news is inauthenticity for China.
China is amity, but China is unconquerable come from threaten for fremdness !

Please see the following Web address in the concerning the photo that true of China Tibet:

http://blog.ifeng.com/706796.html

Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/27/2008 10:38:37 AM

Comment: Oppose France, England, Germany, Japan ,USA???
Oppose CNN is not actual report to China!
CNN's Jack Cafferty is a ignorant garbage???

Sustain the Beijing Olympics!
Tibet is inviolable territory in China from time immemorial, China never relinquished control of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is Chinese splittist.

France, Germany, England, Japan, American people does not understand reality of Tibet!
Occidental news is inauthenticity for China.
China is amity, but China is unconquerable come from threaten for fremdness !

Please see the following Web address in the concerning the photo that true of China Tibet:

http://blog.ifeng.com/706796.html

Posted By: chinese tibet @ 04/27/2008 10:38:21 AM

Comment: Oppose France, England, Germany, Japan ,USA???
Oppose CNN is not actual report to China!
CNN's Jack Cafferty is a ignorant garbage???

Sustain the Beijing Olympics!
Tibet is inviolable territory in China from time immemorial, China never relinquished control of Tibet.
Dalai Lama is Chinese splittist.

France, Germany, England, Japan, American people does not understand reality of Tibet!
Occidental news is inauthenticity for China.
China is amity, but China is unconquerable come from threaten for fremdness !

Please see the following Web address in the concerning the photo that true of China Tibet:

http://blog.ifeng.com/706796.html