Live - from the Today Show
I'm not really an avid watcher of the Today Show. It's on in the morning. I alternate between the weather guy who tells me the weather forecast every 5 minutes and Al Roker's folksy non-weather forecast. Since the weather forecast here is usually bad, I don't necessarily hang around to hear it repeated all morning.

This week the Today show has been doing a series about busy parents and how they juggle the kids and the family and the work and chores and such. (Sidebar: I cannot find any links to this series on the Today Web site which is a nightmare of poor organization and weird frames. I spent about 5 minutes looking which is about 4.5 minutes longer than you should ever have to hunt for anything on anyone's Web site - so no link for you.)

Cameras film moms in the morning handling their kids and getting them out the door. One lady spends 3 hours in the morning trying to get dressed, feed her kids and scoot them out to school. Another spends 11-14 hours a day alone with her young twins and toddler while her husband works. In both situations, it's really utter chaos.

I believe that many moms who are watching the show probably get some good ideas about how to deal with some stressful situations. However, if you do not have children - I think the series has had the (possibly unpredicted) effect of becoming a weeklong advertisement about how you should never have kids.

And you get to see Al Roker.

Labels: 2004