'Winesday' with Kathie Lee & Hoda
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:18PM
On Wednesday, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb join Anderson in the studio to weigh in on the controversial mom study. They participate in the honest and opinionated conversation regarding stay-at-home moms and moms who work outside the home. Kathie Lee shares her own experience with balancing work and children.
Plus, the wild co-hosts of "Today" play a hilarious game of "Anderson's Fill in the Blank with Kathie Lee & Hoda." Kathie Lee compares Hoda's hair to… watch to find out.
In this preview below, Anderson welcomes the effervescent ladies with a glass of wine that Kathie Lee says is, "Not big enough, honey!"
Watch Kathie Lee and Hoda's full interview with Anderson On Wednesday, January 11, 2011.
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I need to know where you got the big wine glasses. I would love to get my daugther one.
I would love to know where you get the huge wine glasses??
Women of my generation ( I am 64) fought hard for women to have a choice. Why can't we accept that and support one another? I HATE these shows where women are pitted against one another calling each other "lazy", etc. It makes me furious. So catty. Reinforces a sterotype of women. We SHOULD have come a long way, baby and this is an insult to the choices women now have to stay home or go to work. GRRR. My blood pressure is rising! And by the way, I was one of the few women in 1975 to get a MBA. Later I stayed at home with my two children and will never regret a day spent with them. Stay at home Moms have made a different choice from the working women but they are DEFINITELY NOT LAZY. You can be lazy at work, too you know!
Like Susan, my Mother was a SAHM who raised 4 kids, not only kept the house immaculately, cooked EVERYTHING from scratch, tended a 2 acre vegetable garden, homeroom mom, chauffer & her childrens greatest supporter etc etc. I wanted my son to have these same benefits, unfortunately my then spouse was not a great provider financially...so I had to be creative.
I have telecommuted for a decade now. Not only am I all those things that my Mother was, but I also have to be the sole provider. Sadly, most work from home companies don't provide traditional benefits such as health ins, vacation pay or any of those lovely things that Brick & Morter (B&M) jobs usually offer. Funny, because we do the exact same jobs those in- center (B&M) workers do, we lack the benfits & yet the employers gain workforce with ZERO overhead. If you'd like to find out more about we work from home Moms..please feel free to email me.
I take offense to the woman who claims all SAHM are lazy...far from it! Some of us do what you Moms do outside the hom at a B&M from home AS WELL as taking care of everything necessary to run a solid household. The true benefits are that my child has NEVER been in daycare, I am always available to be heavily involved in his school and extracurricular activities. Now that my son is almost a teenager, I could perhaps take a B&M job, but I find that it's actually even MORE important for me to be home & available to him as he transitions into adolescence...to to just help ensure that he doesn't get involved with the wrong crowds/or succumb to bad peer pressure.
Lazy!!! I was not a stay at home mom, but my mother was. Her house was spotless (but not obsessive), she made clothes, cooked meals, cooked meals for other people (free), went to ladies aux at the church ( with me in tow), was school homeroom mother...I could go on. I would have loved to have done all those things that economics didn't allow. I loved my job, but was too tired a lot for giving time to my child.
I don't want to throw the majority of the Stay at Home Moms (SAHM's) under the bus; however, I have personally decided to be one lazy SAHM. It did not begin by choice; I could not find any work. And after working my butt off for almost 30 years not only to support myself but a few men whom I had a personal relationship with, I was tired of being the "bread winner". So now, I take care of a home which sits upon 11 acres, and am a part time parent to an 8 year old little girl (whom I absolutely adore). However, I have become SUPER lazy (I have gained 90 pounds) because I know that all I have to do to please my man is clean the kitchen and cook a good meal......this takes like an hour at the most! Now I feel that I am in a rut because I have become addicted to this routine but I hate it! I do not want to be fat and lazy anymore......I used to do construction work (my own business), a swimming pool technition (again my own business), and many other independent jobs! On behalf of the SAHM's, if some appear to be lazy there just may be a story behind it!