It's All About Choices: Last Week On Desperate Housewives and Oprah
Working moms were all over the small screen last week - from "Desperate Housewives" to the "Oprah Winfrey Show"- jawboning about why the career choices they made are good for them and for their families.
Little Children's Take on the Working Mom.
One's thoroughly imperfect but tragic and relatable. The other is cold and demanding. When you watch the two moms in the critically acclaimed film, "Little Children," that's how they seem. One's light. One's dark. And that's a shame. The movie is promoted as a suburban drama about angst in a fictional Massachusetts town, particularly the shared angst between two stay-at-home parents, a mom and a dad, who engage in a steamy affair that's promoted on sexy movie posters around the country.
The Woman of the House Takes A Mommy Moment.
After U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi - mother of five and former at-home parent -- was sworn in as the first woman speaker, she invited the children who were present in the House chamber to come on up to the rostrum and touch the speaker's gavel. Many were stunned. It was a move you would've never imagined seeing if the newly minted House speaker were a dad.