It seems like it’s pretty important for Courtney Love to think she’s a good mom. I guess that’s probably important for most parents… but with Courtney, you somehow get the impression that what’s most important is for her to feel like a good mom, rather than actually being a good mom. Those are the parents that tend to give in and try to be cool and be their kid’s friend, rather than being a good parent, which involves… you know, discipline and not being cool and stuff. Courtney recently talked about how proud she was of herself in letting 15-year-old Frances Bean go to the movies with a friend (one of Sting’s daughters) without parents or bodyguards. 15 sounds very age-appropriate, though a bodyguard is probably a good idea when you have a pretty famous mom and someone who’s often regarded as a legend for a dad. But Courtney was all proud of herself and Frances, commenting that she wanted to get a cake to mark the occasion. The only problem was that Love didn’t think the evening’s events through, and never asked what movie the girls were going to see. Turns out, it was a movie about suicide. Probably not a great film for Kurt Cobain’s daughter.

She may be known for her wild antics and trouble with the law but Courtney Love is trying her best for daughter Frances Bean. Love, 43, says in a new U.K. magazine interview that she recently let 15-year-old Franny (as she calls her) go out alone with a daughter of rocker Sting – only to find out it was to see a film about suicide.

“I wanted to show [her] that she could go out in London without a nanny or bodyguard, so they went by themselves. I wanted to get her a cake because it is the first time she has gone anywhere on her own,” she tells the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine.

Love, however, hadn’t thought about the movie they were going to see – Control, the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide. “She came back so disturbed, because I forgot what the movie was about,” she says – before crying at the memory.

[From People]

I guess it’s probably good that Love was at least upset with herself. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have her – and only her – as your parent. She’s got major drug issues to say the least. I’d think being the child of someone who’s famous and deceased would be really challenging as it is. Adding such a chaotic remaining parent must really warp your perception of normalcy.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Frances Bean Cobain and Tallulah Belle Willis are shown at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party on 9/21/07, thanks to Splash News. Courtney Love is shown on 10/18/07 at Fashion Rocks, thanks to PRPhotos.