The new baby is named Isaiah Timothy “at 2:49 p.m. Sunday in New York City.” This is the second boy for the couple. They have another boy, Taylor Thomas, who is almost two years old, and a daughter, Grace Elisabeth.

Elisabeth and Tim, a former NFL quarterback, have been married for seven years. Elisabeth also has a famous brother-in-law in Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Wonder if this new addition will become a quarterback like his dad and uncle?

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Has a Boy

Not only that, but I can imagine that once you have that third child, things in the household change dramatically as well. From every friend that has three kids, they say it changes the dynamic in the family because you’re suddenly outnumbered. It’s harder to split the parenting duties because there is less of mom and dad to go around.

Have you found a trick to dealing with three (or more) kids?

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Three Kids Means You’re Outnumbered

I know you thought you’d never hear these words from me, but I agree with Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s take on the banning of tag and other “aggressive” playground play.

One of the lessons I’ve taken from Randy Pausch, the man who’s teaching us how to boldly face down death by focusing on life with The Last Lecture, is: If you wait long enough everyone will show you they have positive value.

I don’t usually agree with Elisabeth. But, on the issue of aggresive playground play, including tag which has recently been outlawed at recess in many areas – I 100% agree.

Why are we expecting children to grow up without bruises, scrapes or bumps?

When I was in elementary school there was no playground equipment for a while. They made a really big hill of dirt. We called it The Mountain and found a million ways to hold hands and propel, twirl, roll, hop, skip and push each other off The Mountain. This all ended the second some kid broke an arm. We were no longer allowed to play on the hill.

As children we knew the value of being allowed to continue our play outweighed the risk of broken bones.

Why can’t adults get that simple concept?

Joy’s idea that we should approach 3 year olds with psychoanalysis and role reversal is simply stupid. Sometimes we do need to step back and let kids work stuff out for themselves.

Elisabeth’s idea that children work out their problems on the playground and that kids benefit from aggressive play and learn to get along in this hand-ons way is right on. I too think kids do learn something from being bullied, teased or and getting knocked around a little.

We want to limit and supervise it, but like Elisabeth, I don’t think restricting all aggressive and active play is a good way to handle childhood. Don’t we already have enough problems with lazy children who only watch tv and play video games?

As Whoopi said, YOU call it fighting. THEY are playing!

There. See? Randy was right, I can agree with everyone about at least one thing.

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Elisabeth’s Right On

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5 stupid things Elisabeth said on Jezabel.com

I missed her.

There, I said it.

I loath her politics, I’m jealous of her position and stunning beauty and ease in which she makes her way in the world effortlessly.

But, The View is not The View without her. The guests are boring because they are not inflammatory and Republican enough. It’s the different opinions that make The View exciting.

Welcome Back Elisabeth.

Wait . . . she opened her mouth and now I hate her again. She just has that effect on me.

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Elisabeth Is Back, I Missed Her

Elisabeth’s only going on maternity leave. Somehow hubby Tim is moving to Arizona and she’s taking maternity leave and then coming back to New York? Commuter family. Is that what “Conservative Republicans” do now?

Did you see how disrespectful Elisabeth was to Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House?

Maybe Barbara had a chat with her about that, because she wasn’t quite so rude to Hillary Clinton, future President of the United States.

Switching topics, but only kind of, I suppose it was naive of me to hope that Americans could have a woman run for President without sexually exploiting her left and right.

Did you see the Radar magazine cover showing a Photoshopped picture of Hillary and Barack nude? (above)

Then you have the comments section in the article, with truly enlightened Americans saying sexually derogatory things about Hillary’s sexual desirability like: Poor Hillary I’ll bet she wishes she could have more than one man

I consider myself pretty difficult to offend, but some time around 2006 I got tired of being shocked every time I stood in a check out line or turned on my TV. Did I get too old or did the culture get too depraved? Did I lose my sense of humor or did this kind of crap stop being funny?

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Elisabeth Leaving The View

I guess they have prerecorded two weeks of The View, which is a little odd as I watch Rosie and Elisabeth celebrate Elisabeth’s 30th birthday.

I’m disappointed Rosie left. I don’t really know what to think about it. I checked out the Q&A on Rosie.com and she’s basically saying she felt that the producers created the blow up for ratings. They were so ready for it that they did that “split screen” thing while they argued.  Also that she felt betrayed friendshipwise by Elisabeth.

She was just so angry I guess she quit. Then some of her less mature friends vandalized some pictures of Elisabeth in the studio. Uh, what is this freaking Junior High School and we’ve let the mean girls run rampant?

 (Bizarro side note: I’m watching the DVR of this morning’s show and Rosie just told Elisabeth that she and her little family get to spend an entire week free at her Miami home for a vacation. Hope she already took that week! Cause I don’t think that’s happening at this point.)

I will say this – I like Rosie, I’m disappointed she didn’t sign on for another year and I’m disappointed she quit after the argument. I think she was wrong to call Elisabeth a coward and imply she was too stupid to hold two thoughts at once. But, I think she got angry, because she’s super-passionate about the war) and unfortunately it was on national television. I can totally see myself doing that (passionately losing it) and then waking up in horror the next morning wishing I could pretend it never happened.

I don’t dislike Elisabeth. I disagree with her completely on most issues, but then I live in the Bible Belt of East Texas, so I’m used to being surrounded by Elisabeths. I’ve found they are generally very nice and good people and if you avoid talking about these issues you can be quite good friends with them. But, you know it’s a talk show, they are hired to talk about the issues and Barbara Walters had always envisioned a show where very different women with different views would discuss the issues. Mission Accomplished.

But, Elisabeth constantly annoys the crap out of me. For one thing does she have to look so much like Barbi? Don’t take this as jealousy, maybe a little bit – who wouldn’t want to have all the physical blessings Elisabeth has? 

But, she says really bull#$%& stuff, like on Monday’s show where she said she throws sand in Tim’s eyes when she stands up at the beach so he won’t see her body. I find it really very irritating when thin, fit women say stuff like that. She has a perfect body and I frankly believe she is aware of the perfection of her body. It should not be a hobby to complain about your perfect body. I mean, thin little Elisabeth sitting between Joy and Rosie complaining about being seen in a swimsuit.  It’s insulting.

Shut up stick.

That’s what I would never say, but think about saying to thin beautiful women who complain about their appearance. Can’t pretty girls have a freaking self esteem? How are we chubby women ever supposed to feel good about our own bodies if the perfect, thin healthy women can’t manage to appreciate it and feel good about it?

This is why young girls are getting so screwed up with the eating disorders and self-hatred. They see thin, perfect Elisabeth dissatisfied with perfection. The View should institute a Self-Loathing Sin Bank, like the one I have at home. My daughter and I have to pay a fine if we criticize ourselves. Elisabeth should have to pay $100 every time she says something about how unattractive or insecure about her body she is. (This rule should not apply to Joy however, because she has legitimate issues and her self-criticism is for comedic value and we can all relate to it, as she does not look like Barbi.)

Anyway, Cheers Rosie. I, for one, hope to see you on the air somewhere.

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Rosie Quit, Elisabeth Stays