Update: Paula Deen interviews Senator Hillary Clinton; your chance to ask the questions
Update: Senator Hillary Clinton was met with questions from mothers around the country via the web, questions by audience members, and also those from her interviewer, Paula Dean.
As a politician, a wife, and a mother to her daughter, Chelsea Victoria, 28, Senator Clinton was asked how she manages to juggle it all while still performing her duties as New York’s Senator and finding quality time to spend with her family. While Hillary confessed that she sometimes had to put her social life aside, she always managed to find creative ways to spend time with Chelsea and her husband, former President Bill Clinton — including a joined family effort to crack open a coconut!
One time Chelsea said she heard about coconuts and had never seen one, so we went to the store and bought a coconut [and] we took it home. And Bill and I — you know, between us we’ve had 50 years of education — could not get the coconut open. I mean we were throwing it on the driveway, beating it with a hammer, it was so embarrassing.
Although the Senator was asked advice on how she dealt with parenting a teenager, she admitted to the audience that she wasn’t the best person to ask! She explained that Chelsea was in the White House as a teenager and when she began to take interest in boys, which meant Secret Service always joined her and her date!
You really cannot extrapolate from my experience, because Chelsea was a teenager in the White House which meant that the Secret Service went on her dates. A lot of her girlfriends’ mothers loved it when they double dated because, you know, because there was the guy with the gun in the front seat.
Continue reading for Senator Clinton’s story about drawing the line with Chelsea’s wardrobe and for the original post.
Senator Clinton recalls a particular memory during her husband’s second inauguration when she was stunned at Chelsea’s wardrobe choice, but realizing there was no time for her to change, figured that maybe there are things that are much more important after all.
My idea of what was proper dressing when my daughter was a teenager was just totally absurd in her mind. There’s a picture — it was Bill’s second inauguration, and we were leaving the White House to drive to the Capitol for him to be sworn in. The plan was that we were going to drive for a little bit and the Secret Service had an area that the Secret Service said it was OK for us to get out of the car and walk a little bit.
So Chelsea came down — she was dressed and had a coat on…she opened it…the skirt was so short. And I’m sitting there looking at this short skirt, and there’s no time to change, and I thought ‘Ok, you just have to take a deep breath. Here we go.’ There are so many things that are worth engaging your kids on and so many things that are not important, and trying to figure out how to draw the line.
See the first part of the interview here.
Originally posted May 2nd: TV Food Network chef and mother to two grown boys, Paula Dean, who has become a momlogic contributor, will be meeting Senator Hillary Clinton on May 3rd in Cary, North Carolina, to discuss mothers and their worries about their families during and as a result of this election. Not only will the Senator will be faced with Paula’s interview, but in an effort to allow all moms in this country a voice, audience members will be able to ask questions on site and moms who can’t make it to the meeting can submit their questions online by clicking here.
The event will be held at Cary High School (638 Walnut Street) in Cary, North Carolina on May 3rd. This is open to the public and the interview will begin at 8:30 a.m., but the doors will open early at 7:30 a.m. and seating is on a first come first serve basis.
Don’t forget to watch the first episode, in a multi-part series, on Saturday, May 3rd on MomLogic.com to see if your questions were answered!
What would you ask Hillary Clinton about being a political mom?
