DL is a working mom herself, but comes down hard on working moms. What gives?
DL claims that after Deryk was born she spent the first several years as a stay-at-home mom. She glosses over the fact that for the first few years after his birth she still had her home knitting business, her radio show, her private practice, and her position at Pepperdine. She of course still has her radio show and also travels to interviews and promotional events. When pressed about this, she insists that Lew and she arrange their schedules so that Deryk always has a parent at home. However, Laurie Saunders (a radio personality) claims in the Vanity Fair article that when DL’s radio show on KFI ran from 9 to midnight, DL often brought Deryk along to the station where he ran around unsupervised. She has said that mothers (sometimes ‘parent’, but most often ‘mothers’) can work after the children start school, so long as they can arrange the schedule so there’s always a parent home when they come home from school. DL has said she’s not against working moms, she’s against daycare (she h