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"It seems like having wine coolers or beer or even martinis while getting together with girlfriends and their kids is the new cool thing to do. It&amp;#039;s more aggressive than just social drinking \u2014 I was invited to one playdate where making the margaritas was the main event \u2013 and one mom drank three! Luckily she wasn&amp;#039;t driving and just pushed her stroller down the block. My friends say they deserve it, and it&amp;#039;s all in fun, and (normally) nobody gets too drunk to be a responsible mom. What think? \u2013k.c.  Sipping the random beer on a hot afternoon while kids tussle over sand toys can definitely be relaxing. Three margaritas? Sounds like drunk territory to me. And drunks and kids are always a bad mix. The whole blatant party-with-the-potty-crowd scene reminds me of the girls in high school who defiantly smoked cig after cig in the courtyard (back in the pre-smokefree world) just so we&amp;#039;d know what &amp;quot;bad girls&amp;quot; they were. Does having a baby mean you can never have a drink again? No. Is saying yes to a glass of wine while you&amp;#039;re visiting a fellow mama irresponsible? Not for most of us, if it&amp;#039;s just one glass. But just because the &amp;quot;Mad Men&amp;quot; is making the 1960s cocktail hour cool again doesn&amp;#039;t mean getting smashed while on child care duty is ever bossa nova. Stuff happens with kids. You want to be able to handle it \u2013 and not wobble into the ER with liquor on your breath. And if taking care of kids is so boring or hard that you need the drinks to get through it, that&amp;#039;s a different sort of problem. That&amp;#039;s why is great to hang with other moms on joint playdates, to relax and complain and compare notes and keep you on an even keel, margaritas optional. \u2013Paula Spencer "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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