Britney Spears is taking parenting tips from Madonna. Well that can’t be good! The Britster has revealed that the Material Mom encouraged her to bring her kids along for her Circus World Tour — she also suggested Britney hire out-of-work ex-husband Kevin Federline as a professional babysitter for the former couple’s two sons.

At the suggestion of Madge, Britney and hired Kevin Federline as a nanny for their sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. She is reportedly paying K-Fed 5,000 dollars-a-week for his services.

“Madonna gave Britney some great advice about her kids.”

“Madonna told her, ‘Keep them close when you’re on the road. I have always taken my kids on the road with me. It’s a life they learn to accept, as long as they’re with their mom. You want to look back on those years and know they are with you. They’ll look back on these years too and they’ll be very glad to have those memories,” says an insider.

“It’s all about history. What we as mothers are doing is creating history with our kids that we can look back on,” Britney says in an interview with Hello Magazine this week. “When they’re adults I want my kids to say ‘Mom worked so hard, but she was always there for us,” she added.