{"id":1709,"date":"2007-02-01T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/wine_women_and_\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T11:27:30","slug":"wine_women_and_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/wine_women_and_\/","title":{"rendered":"WINE, WOMEN AND PLAY DATES (Yeah I’m late on this)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wine_and_playdates\"<\/a> I must have been one of the last people on the planet to hear about this ruckus — a profile of mothers together at the swing set, pushing the kids with glasses of wine in hand.  As I read in Her Bad Mother<\/a>, the story appeared on my old alma mater THE TODAY SHOW<\/a>, where I worked for nine proud and happy years.  I don’t know whether I’m more upset with the content of the story, the reaction or the fact that TODAY is, generally, so much less substantial than it was when I worked there.  ADD THIS: I just read most of the back story to all this at the source:  Melissa Summers’ Suburban Bliss<\/a>.  If even part of it is true (and I have no reason to doubt any of it) then it’s far more a scandal about television than it is about drinking and moms.  PLEASE READ THIS.<\/a>  It also includes links to many comments on the matter.<\/p>\n

As I said before I read Melissa’s very troubling post, "This story<\/a> looked unbalanced to me – at least the video did, so I was glad to learn from Jenn Satterwhite’s Mommy Bloggers post<\/a> that TODAY is planning a follow-up on Friday."  In the mean time take a look at what Catherine (Her Bad Mother<\/a>) and others (Google Blog Search<\/a> turned up dozens of posts) have had to say about this.  I want to watch the follow-up before I say anything.  I lived around bad alcohol issues at one point in my life and am very sensitive to the issue so am remaining silent for now.<\/p>\n

PLEASE COMMENT though if you have thoughts about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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