(ThyBlackMan.com) All hail Blue Ivy. The heir to The Throne is here. Beyonce Knowles Carter gave birth to a baby girl Sunday in New York at Lenox Hill hospital. For the last 10 months we’ve all been consumed with whether or not Beyonce is actually pregnant. Is her baby bump real. Well none of that matters anymore. The baby is here and now it’s time for Beyonce and proud papa Jay-Z to get down to the brass tax of being parents.
Not a parent myself I don’t know what that entails. But as the four month in the future stepmother to three rambunctious boys, and the aunt of a precocious yet been here before four-year-old I can pretty much rightly assume that Beyonce and Jay-Z will have their work cut out for them.
Yes, Beyonce and Jay-Z have money but money cannot take the place of good parenting. Furthermore, noticing Beyonce as a celebrity she seems, rather she is very private. The fact that she revealed her pregnancy on the VMA’s says 
more about our paparazzi obsessed culture and her not wanting to be put on blast before she had the chance to prepare for the onslaught of baby-crazed attention. But I digress.
A newborn in the Knowles-Carter household means Mama Tina Knowles will probably be buzzing around to help the new mommy. Sister Solange will offer some young sisterly yet I was a mother before you advice. Jay-Z will probably coo over his new daughter — that he should’ve named Brooklyn Carter — but probably be a little hands off at least in the beginning. But after awhile Mama Knowles will leave, Solange will let King Bey do her thing and Jay-Z may or may not get more involved in the raising of young Blue.
The raising that will include Blue’s first pair of diamond studs, one of kind booties and bonnets to keep out the harsh New York winter wind, goose downs, and timbs, a fresh pair of baby J’s, and all the luxurious materialistic items a regular person like me can’t really name unless I’ve heard it bragged about in either a Beyonce or Jay-Z song. Diamond cream facials anyone. Beyonce and Jay-Z are sure to spoil their bundle of joy. But what kind of values will they instill her.
Will she be raised to love the camera and flaunt but not flaunt for the paparazzi like Suri Cruise seems to be raised to do. Will she be sheltered from the public and only seen once Mom and Dad are tired of sitting around the house like we see Halle Berry with Nahla. Will little Blue be a world traveler with a U.N. Ambassador for a mom like the Jolie-Pitt clan. Or will Jay-Z and Beyonce raise their daughter in a conventional way; conventional for hollywood at least. Where Blue is not fodder for the paps or the latest trend in cute baby clothes but just a child growing up to famous parents who is still grounded and not affected by the glamourous goings on of the world. Something like the Obama girls.
Truth of the matter is time will only tell how Blue Ivy Carter will be raised. Time will only tell what her personality will be. She could live a completely sheltered life and then end up on the talk show circuit promoting a movie that seemingly came out of nowhere like Paris Jackson. Or she could be trailing her famous mom everywhere and become a breakout star in her own right whipping her hair back and forth a la Willow Smith; whom Jay-Z signed to his label Roc Nation.
What’s clear is that if Beyonce and Jay-Z raise and nurture their child in the same way they raised and nurtured their relationship the waiting world will have to keep on waiting until they decide to let their daughter’s light shine on the world; or she rebels against them both and announces her own presence even if it’s if against her parents wishes. The exciting and frustrating thing about it all is that it is for Jay-Z, Beyonce and Blue to know and the rest of us with inquiring minds to find out.
Staff Writer; Nikesha Leeper
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