Britney Spears Nearly Drops Sean Preston

Britney Spears' parenting skills have been called into question for the second time this week. Earlier this week, Britney appeared on the front page of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News in a photo showing Sean Preston Federline's baby seat facing forward instead of backward. Today, while outside a Manhattan hotel, Britney Spears lost her balance and stumbled, nearly dropping Sean Preston Federline.

Spears' most recent parenting slip-up was also photographed by the New York Post, which had several photos of the pop star on the front page and in the newspaper. As USA Today reports, "As her bodyguards walked Spears to her car, she stumbled - her long pants apparently getting tangled in her open-toed shoes - and bent low as Sean Preston's head flung backward, knocking off his orange hat."

Britney Spears managed to regain her balance, with a little help from her bodyguard, and she managed to keep hold of Sean Preston. However, this latest parenting mishap has added fuel to the fire for the press to roast Britney Spears' parenting skills. As ABC News reports, on Tuesday, Spears was seen "driving her convertible Mini-Cooper with her eight-month-old son Sean Preston in the back, sitting in a baby seat facing frontward. Child safety advocates prefer that kids less than a year old sit in car seats facing backward."

These two incidents have done nothing to help Britney's image in the media and to the world. In early April, Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline were visited by the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services after Sean Preston had to be taken to the hospital. Sean Preston's highchair had collapsed, and he sustained a head injury, which later turned out to be a skull fracture and a blood clot (See Britney Spears, Kevin Federline Visited By Child Welfare). Prior to that, Spears had been photographed driving with Sean Preston Federine in her lap and not in a car seat, while she was being pursued by the paparazzi. Spears would later apologize for the incident.

Spears appears to have inspired legislation in California with her most recent baby seat debacle. According to The Irish Examiner, "Britney Spears has prompted California lawmakers to introduce a bill requiring parents to face their infants' car seats towards the back of the vehicle if they are under one year old." Hopefully, this means that there will be no confusion over the guidelines in the California motor-vehicle code when Spears has her second child, which she recently announced she was pregnant with (See Britney Spears Is Pregnant Again, Britney Spears' Baby Rumored To Be A Girl).

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were married on September 18th, 2004. They had their first child together, Sean Preston Federline, on September 14th, 2005. Britney Spears is the best-selling female artist of the 2000s, having sold 85 million albums. Her first two albums Baby, One More Time and Oops! I Did It Again were both diamond-selling albums, meaning they sold more than 10 million copies in the United States. Britney's albums include Baby, One More Time, Oops! I Did It Again, Britney, In The Zone, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative and has appeared in movies such as The New Mickey Mouse Club, Crossroads and In The Pink. Britney is also expected to release a new album in November 2006, with a world tour tentatively scheduled for 2007.

[Additional Sources: USA Today, ABC News, Irish Examiner]