Is actress Alicia Silverstone’s version of attachment
parenting might have been influenced by Star Trek’s “Ferengi Parenting”?
By: Ringo Bones
A few months ago, actress Alicia Silverstone made headlines
when a video of her pre-chewing her food before spitting it into her kid’s
mouth in the name of “attachment parenting” went viral on the web and got everyone
talking about the pros and cons of attachment parenting. But to us Star Trek
fans, the practice of parents pre-chewing their kid’s food before “spitting” it
into their mouths is eerily similar to a somewhat strange-from-our-perspective
Ferengi parenting practice.
This quirky Ferengi sociological practice was first seen
when a spin of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek TV series called Deep Space Nine aired
on primetime TV back around 1993. Pre-chewing of food then feeding it to their
infants is not only practiced by Ferengi mothers but also of Ferengi women to
their husbands and / or prospective husbands. Given that President Obama was
recently “outed” as a Trekkie – i.e. Star Trek fan, does this mean that Alicia
Silverstone a Trekkie too?
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