When Mommy Drinks Too Much

This is the title of an article by Amy Hatch for which I was interviewed. Her article appears on the ParentDish blog, and she opens her post with:

There’s nothing wrong with a glass of wine or two at night to take the edge off a long day of parenting — or is there? Author and mother of three Stefanie Wilder-Taylor recently took a long, sobering look at just how often she was hitting the bottle, and revealed publicly that it was time for her to stop.

Wilder-Taylor not only decided to stop drinking, she decided to share her secret with the world in her ironically named column, “Make Mine A Double: Tales of Twins and Tequila” on the parenting website, Mommy Track’d: “I drink seven nights a week,” she writes. “Sometimes just a glass of wine but usually two or three or even more. I always seem to have some sort of excuse like, ‘Today was an exceptionally stressful day so I deserve an extra glass now that it’s all done.’”

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About Lisa Frederiksen

Lisa Frederiksen has been consulting, researching, writing and speaking on substance abuse, addiction, treatment, dual diagnosis, underage drinking and help for the family centered around 21st century brain and addiction-related research since 2003. Her 4o+ years experience with family and friends’ alcohol abuse and alcoholism and her seventh and eighth books, "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!" and "If You Loved Me, You'd Stop!," frame her work. She founded BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 and writes a blog of the same name.
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