Samantha Bee
An exclusive interview with the Daily Show star and mother of two.
by Christina Couch
February 9, 2009
Is there anything you have the occasional parental freak-out about?
I worried about eco-diapers with Piper, but then when we had the second kid, I kind of went, "I don't have time to worry about anything." Anything. I would pick up a package of diapers from the ground outside my apartment, take them in and use them if I
had to. I did become hysterical when it came to New York preschools, because I just got caught up in everyone else's energy. I regret getting so worked up about it, because in the end we found a great preschool.
What's your greatest parenting success?
Having great kids. It's always exciting for me when I don't get stressed out about something and it works out in the end. Our daughter, for example, was a late talker. She's pretty shy and we didn't get too caught up in that, even though by New York standards
she probably seemed severely behind. We didn't get our knickers in a knot over it and now she speaks perfectly clearly in long sentences and won't stop, so we celebrate victories that come when we're relaxed. We try not to put a lot of effort into it. Oh
God, is that bad? I swear to God my children are always attended to and I'm usually with them."We bring our kids to work all the time."
The Daily Show has been amazing, because they are so relaxed about bringing our children to work. We bring our kids to work all the time.
I've noticed appearances by your kids on the show. How is that going?
Ha ha ha! We did put a moratorium on Piper's appearances at a certain age because, well, normally we're making fun of her, and once we figured that she might sense that, we just stopped entirely. We don't ever want to feel like we're damaging her. She was
a wonderful prop. Fletcher, I think, is on the schedule for an appearance soon.
Do you have any aspirations to get your kids involved in the performing arts?
None whatsoever. I hope to God that they don't go into the performing arts. I pray for all of our sakes, because when I'm old, I would like to be put up in a good-quality nursing home and they won't be able to afford it if they go into theater. I may have
done too many jobs with messed-up children, but, I don't know, it doesn't seem like a healthy, laid-back environment. Children already feel like they're the center of the universe. They don't need a whole network of people encouraging that on top of what they
already feel.
©2009 Christina Couch and Nerve Media
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Christina Couch is a freelance writer based in Richmond, VA, and Chicago, IL. She is the author of Virginia Colleges 101 (Palari Publishing, 2008). Her work can also be found in Playboy.com, Time Out Chicago, Wired magazine, MSN.com and Yahoo! Finance. |
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