Unless you’ve been living under a rock – or happily unplugged during the holiday season – you may have heard that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced their pregnancy just before the New Year. With Kim K. about 12 weeks pregnant, we at Nicerazzi would like to offer a heartfelt congratulations to the couple – as well as a modest proposal.

Kim and Kanye, hide your child away. Keep him or her as unfamous as possible. Make it your goal as parents to raise the child in as normal a household as possible. And then, when your baby is a reasonable age – say 16 or 18 – let it decide on its own if it wants to embrace the ups and down of fame.

The notion of sidestepping the baby’s impending fame may seem absurd – but please consider it, if only for the length of time it takes to read this editorial.

For starters, Kanye and Kim, you will soon learn the first hard truth of parenting: You’re no longer the most important person in your life. Once that tiny being appears, once he or she wraps its little fingers around your hand and looks to you for guidance through the enormous, complex world it was just born into, you’ll feel it intensely, most likely for the first time. Self-preservation (and self-publicity) will fall way down the ladder – suddenly, every decision should be informed by what is best for the child.

As entertainment journalists, we’re not supposed to write editorials like this. Nothing is more mouth-watering to us than a solid decade of click-fodder like “Kim and Baby Go Clothes Shopping,” “Kanye Takes Baby to the Park,” and the like, all accompanied of course by plenty of pictures. But, like you, we are human beings and realize that if we can’t correct our behavior for the sake of a newborn baby, what good are we?

Imagine this scenario instead: Since both of you already have plenty of money and fame to spare, after the child’s birth you cut back your “work days” by half. Kanye tours less, Kim insists that if her media ventures continue, they’ll have to do so with her only being present half as much. Instead, you both focus your efforts on being in this child’s life far more than the average American parent gets to be. No pictures are sold – or encouraged to be taken – of the child. There are no reality shows. When reporters inevitably ask you about the baby, you make your answer as dry and uninteresting as possible: “Yes, the baby is fine. We love it very much and respect a most basic human need: Its ability to grow up in private.”

Or, there is the alternative: A life spent with nannys and caregivers, missing parents who choose awards shows, “the road” or reality show tapings over precious, vital moments at home in sweatpants, playing with Lego toys and watching “Caillou.” An adolescence where every trip to the jungle gym or toy store results in flashbulbs going off and scary strangers screaming at their parents. Their first words being “TMZ” rather than “Mommy” or “Daddy.” Next thing you know, it’s Lindsay Lohan time.

A retreat from the public eye could indeed occur, if you both were to determined to make it happen. If you’re boring about your parenting details, the media will eventually go away. The buzz will die down, and the paparazzi will move on to another celebrity instead who gives them what they want. You’ll be viewed instead as trendsetters, strong parents who chose the well-being of a child over an opportunity to amplify your own fame.

And, when the child is old enough to look back at this time – to read the headlines and reflect on what his or her parents did – imagine the respect he or she will have for you. Imagine the life-long lessons you will have taught it about priorities, family, and the importance of keeping things in perspective.

There is one thing we all know: When this child is born, it will be a blank slate, an empty canvas. What will you make of it? How much will you allow the dark side of fame to exploit and harass it into a life of fear, confusion and the prevailing mindset that unless there’s a camera being pointed at it, what it’s doing doesn’t matter?

Enjoy being parents, Kim and Kanye – these can be the greatest days of your life. We look forward to seeing what kind of parents you turn out to be – and we wouldn’t mind at all if we learned very, very little actual information about the baby itself.