Jamie Lee Curtis wrote a note to Kathy Hilton on Huffington Post. She titled it, ‘Mom, It’s Not Right!’. In the article Curtis slams Hilton and others of her generation for not providing parental guidance.

“It was a painful episode to watch,” Curtis writes. “A young woman, begging her mother, the person who should have taught her right from wrong, to help her, to teach her the rules of life. It was a little too late. And so she wept as the Universe was bringing the teaching and settling the score.”

Curtis, who has a daughter, Annie, 20, and a son, Thomas, 11, with husband Christopher Guest, is no stranger to being young in Hollywood: The daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she made her film debut in 1978’s Halloween at age 20. (She’s also Jake Gyllenhaal’s godmother.)

But she says today’s celebs are lacking guidance: “The sad paths of the three most popular young women” – Hilton and, presumably, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears – “have ended in prison, rehab and mental illness. I hope their mothers are worried sick and wondering, ‘What could I have done differently?’ And our culture should be asking the same question too.”

Parents her age, she says, are more concerned with being friends with their kids than teaching them important lessons. “We were the generation who applauded every move they made. Every step they took. ‘Good climbing, Brandon’ was our hue and cry. We were raised by people who didn’t ‘understand’ us and now we don’t ‘understand’ why our children are so messed up.”

She concludes: “Can we take the wrenching sight of Paris asking her mother, ‘why?’ and ask it of ourselves? … Wake up, Mothers, and smell the denial.”

Woah! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Well, maybe I could have, but she makes a good point. There does seem to be an entire generation of narcissists who have no idea what it means to take responsible for their own actions much less to take responsibility for their impact on society.

Our children have plenty of friends. What they need from their parents is parenting. Even if they don’t like you for it at the moment, they will love you for it when they are grown.

Rock on, Jamie!

Hazel, we are just going to have to disagree about Paris. When I read that she cried for her mother, I felt sorry for her. Despite any material wealth and social status, we all need our mothers sometimes. At least that’s the way I see it. See ya!