Reliable Source: Criticizing first kids? Still not a good idea.

Writing about first kids is a tricky business that at best will get you scolded online and at worst send you to the unemployment line, as former Hill staffer Elizabeth Lauten found out recently. But if there is a gray area when it comes to first offspring (as children, they're so off-limits, but what about when they grow up and get Instagram accounts?) Lauten's social media screed and resulting resignation underscores the message that the first kids remain third rails.