The world’s most famous parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie try to keep their family of eight together as much as they can, but that often means taking their six kids with them all over the globe. The children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and newborns Knox and Vivienne — are certainly going to grow with up with real-life global knowledge, but what about a formal education?

As Us points out, most seven-year-olds like Maddox are starting second grade now. Maddox has attended schools in New York City, New Orleans, Prague and Los Angeles. Now, the Jolie-Pitts have begun homeschooling their eldest. A tutor is reportedly visiting the house the family is renting in France.

But even if he’s not in a classroom, Maddox — who, like his siblings, is encouraged to speak French as a second language — is growing up fast. These days, he is allowed “to do things without Mom or Dad,” the source continues. “He tags along with an assistant to help with shopping.”

[From Us, print edition, September 29, 2008]

Brad is back in France after traveling to Venice and Toronto for film festivals to promote Burn After Reading, and Angelina should be in New York in October for the New York Film Festival, but the two did recently find some romantic time together. Us reports the two dined twice at L’Auberge du Parc in August. A witness said Angie “is happy and smiling. She looks so slim already.”

However, National Enquirer says things are less cheery at their French home, nicknamed “Chateau Chaos.”

During an angry phone call while Brad was in Toronto, Angie ordered Brad to come home.

During the tense phone call, Brad quipped, “You ready for another baby?”
“Angie flipped out,” said the insider. “She accused Brad of trying to run away from her and the kids to have fun with his buddies.”

[From National Enquirer, print edition, September 29, 2008]

After the call, Enquirer reports Brad scrapped his plans to attend the Stand Up for a Cure benefit concert on September 10 and returned to France.

There’s the possibility that both these stories are completely false, but also the possibility that they’re both true. Relationships are up and down. No one could blame Brad for wanting a break to be with friends, and no one could blame Angie for wanting him to get his ass back home to help her.

Source: Cele|bitchy