[donna]

The sight of little Piper Palin licking her hand and flattening Trig's hair during their mom's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention is likely to stick in the public mind years after Trig's hair is again unstuck.

Siblings always take the place of the career mother as best they can.

[Zechariah_8_13]

Siblings always take the place of the career mother as best they can.

Give me a break. A child showing affection toward her brother is trying to "take the place of [her] career mother"?

What a strange world you must inhabit.

[tgslTakoma]

Or maybe, just maybe, Piper was mimicking what she saw her mother (that would be Sarah, Trig's mom, too) do with Trig on prior occasions.

You are really reaching with your judgemental comment.

[ovrtaxt]

Siblings will do that anyway. We home school, my wife is with the kids all day.

Nevertheless, my kids think they’re allowed to parent each other. It gets them into trouble all the time, with us and each other. Not equating Piper’s positive actions here, just using a negative example to make the point. Kids will emulate parents whether they work full time or not.