Some people seem to think that Sarah needs to keep her kids out of sight if she doesn’t want them hammered and ridiculed.
What is she supposed to do, stick them in a closet? She has Trig with her because that’s the right thing to do with a baby, not foist him off 364 days a year on some babysitter. And the same with her other kids when they are with her.
What is she supposed to do? Tell them they can’t come hear her for the next five or ten years or whatever? That way, they have lost their real childhoods in a loving family.
I don’t think she needs to get her children locked in a closet.
But Trig has been on the cover of People. Bristol has been on the cover of People. Bristol is a national spokeswomen for abstinancy now. In various profiles on the news magazine tv shows, her kids are always in full view. There was the piece in, I think, Vanity Fair in which the reporter was in the family living room and recorded the conversations of all the kids - and Levi. And Palin quoted Britol in her facebook criticism of Family Guy.
As I said earlier, the Clintons proved that you could build a wall around your kids. The Bushes did to some degree, but the twins in their younger days played a hand in tearing it down themselves. But that calmed down after a year or two.
I do not feel like she has done a good enough job in building a wall around her kids.