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116 of 154 found the following review helpful:
 Don't forget to have children! And employ a slew of hired help! Jan 23, 2010
By reader 2227
"coniferite"
Mika Brzezinski has promoted this book, by saying that she has advice that she wants to give, to younger women in the workplace. One piece of advice, that Mika likes to trumpet, is: "Don't forget to have children!"
Mika writes on pg. 4, "One of the first things I talk about, when I speak with young women about jump-starting their career - even if they don't ask [is], 'Don't forget to have children...'"
Mika's publisher's blurb blares, "She shares a refreshingly pragmatic approach for the professional woman: don't wait to have children..."
However, when Ms. Brzezinski gets pregnant in her 20's, as Mika promotes and expounds in her book, Ms. Brzezinski is also privileged enough, to be able to hire a slew of nannies and back-up, beginning when her children are babies. Mika speaks of her supportive husband, and she is able to employ a squadron of babysitters and housekeepers, but nonetheless, Mika can't seem to manage, and although Mika has a staff of childcare aides, Mika bemoans continually about how depleted she is.
It turns out, that taking care of children can be quite exhausting. Who knew that children had so many needs?
Another reminder: It is really essential to have a plenitude of hired hands to take care of your children! Don't forget the fleet, of domestic help!
Even with assistance and support, Mika, distracted, falls down her stairs while holding her second daughter. There is panic in the emergency room thinking the baby might even be paralyzed. Luckily, that was not the case, and the fracture to the little girl's femur bone is repaired. Still, this prompts Mika and her husband, to hire even more household help and caretakers, to make sure of always "having the kids 'staffed.'" (pg.112)
Ms. Brzezinski is able to employ an array of surrogate help (can't everyone do that) to handle all the 'things' in her life. "We set it up so the house could run efficiently in my absence - and even in my presence." (pg. 114) Even so, Mika laments repeatedly, about how drained and fatigued she is. Given that Ms. Brzezinski is dependent upon a plethora, of round-the-clock childcare and custodial stand-ins, it would seem that Mika's advice would be to think carefully and arduously, before taking on the demands of having a baby, or having another one; not to rush into it or take on the responsibility before one is ready. Mika's 'advice on motherhood' also seems a bit insulting, to all the working moms, working dads, stay-at-home moms and dads, and all those who raise children without a fraction of the help that Mika is fortunate enough to have.
Mika Brzezinski is on a morning show with a co-host, whose intelligence, even her own father calls, "stunningly superficial." If Mika's father feels this way about their program, others can't be blamed for thinking the exact, same thing.
It is deflating and demoralizing, that these 'stunningly counterfeit,' self-righteous, disingenuous, fraudulent, pompous co-blabberators, ended up bungling their way to having all this 'news' air time, when there is no doubt that Mika's and Joe Scarborough's main concerns, have always been their own artificial, egotistical, hypocritical, confusing, caterwauling histrionics.
Not surprisingly, Mika sounds the same way in her book.
Speaking of advice, whether you've remembered to have children or not, do yourself a favor, save your money, and instead of buying this book, spend it on a babysitter.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 She Can't Do All Things at Once Apr 29, 2010
By J. L. Harrison
"Snowbird"
What a disappointment this book is! I get a real kick out of Morning Joe and thought I would really like Mika because of her very strong opinions and the way she keeps Joe, Willie, Barnacle and the rest of them in line. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Fueled by constant whining about how tired she was, the book is numbingly repetitive. To her credit, she's a very hard worker and seems to have married the world's most perfect man. I happen to agree with Mica that women should marry and have children while they're young. But Mica is living proof that you can't have "All Things at Once" and that she should have put her career into low gear while her kids were young. To call this book a "self help" book is a joke.
32 of 42 found the following review helpful:
Delusional Mar 01, 2010
By Lisa
I got this from the library and finished it in less than three hours. Wow. Driven by what seems to be an obsessive need to be in the spotlight, Brzezinski neglects her children for a life that keeps her--rather than them--the center of attention. She freely admits that she finds true parenting to be a chore and would much rather be a "fun" parent. Being a parent means accepting that some days are nothing but temper fits and tears, whilst others are hugs and fun, and most are in the middle, with a little of both to keep things interesting. Brzezinski believes the proper way to raise her children is to take out loans and foist her daughters upon nannies and sitters so she herself has as little interaction with them as possible. At first I found this incredible; however, by the end of the book, it became quite clear that those kids may well be better off with people who actually want to be around them. If her horrific recounting of what happened when she believed her daughter to be paralyzed couldn't make her see the forest for the trees, well, perhaps it's best she sticks to her book tours and morning show and leaves her children in much more capable hands.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Hire an armada of childcare, as soon as you can. Take all the credit yourself, then write a book about your "mothering" advice. Oct 03, 2010
By Christine A.
I read this book because I wanted to see what a co-anchor, on one of the three cable news stations had to say. The women and men who `host' these shows, funnel and filter the news for America, so their positions can have an undue influence on the American political pulse. It has always struck me as odd, that Mika can stridently and pompously, repeatedly descend on anyone who dares consume sugar. Yet, Ms. Brzezinski, can just as easily $hill for $tarbuck'$ $weetened drink$.
What advice could Ms. Brzezinski have, about "balancing career and parenting young children?" Mika, with frequent verve, repeatedly tells professional women, that they should have their children in their 20's, just as Mika did. On the other hand, Ms. Brzezinski employs an armada of nannies and babysitters, to outsource the care of her children, which she glosses over. What Mika is trying to package as parental advice, seems empty when she admits how little she sees her own children. This often makes Mika appear clueless, in a Marie-Antoinette sort of way. One is left baffled, from what Mika espouses, and then how she leads her own life.
In Mika's own words: "It meant we'd need virtually full-time babysitting help." (p 79) "I could have used much more help, but we could barely afford just the one sitter." (p 96) "He [her husband] took out loans to hire another nanny so I could get the rest I needed, and all the support we needed around the house. We hired a night person and a day person." (p 112) "We set it up so the house could run efficiently in my absence - and even in my presence." (p 114) "She [Mika's daughter] was about nine, and she was making an appointment on her cell phone because she didn't want to wait for Mommy to get around to scheduling a cleaning. And she had to tell me how to find the dentist's office, too, because I'd never been there before." (p 128) "I'd miss my daughters' birthdays from time to time, but then I'd make it up to them by throwing a party a couple of months later...As I write this, I'm missing Carlie's elementary school graduation, so there's a constant tug and pull between what I need to be doing at work and what I'd like to be doing at home." (p 180) "Once, Emilie was performing in a circus at school. She was in third grade, and was terrifically excited...All day long, I kept thinking about this damn circus." (p 181) "Unfortunately, the role of wife and mother didn't even come close to defining me, as my family quickly learned... I could use the washing machine without too much trouble, but once I took the clothes out of the dryer they were on their own." (p 191) "As soon as I had to be the taskmaster, the coordinator of all things domestic, it took some spirit out of it. It made it more like a job." (p 192)
Mika is always tired and finds the responsibilities of being a parent draining. All through the book, she complains about how tired she is: "tremendous exhaustion" (p 7) "constantly nauseous, nervous, exhausted, frayed, fried" (p 66) "I could even sneak in a nap" (p 75) "I was by now constantly and relentlessly tired" (p 78) "I was bone-tired" (p 90) "I couldn't sleep" (p 95) "a full night's sleep - a cherished luxury" (p 96) "instead of this overwhelmed, overextended" (pg 96) "a nap, I knew, like I should have been" (p 97) "get the rest I needed, and all the support we needed around the house" (p 112) "being so limited on my sleep" (p 113) "when you don't sleep all night, you can't think" (p 113) "sleepless night, and then another" (p 113) "Because I needed my sleep" (p 114) "I let our sitters stay with our children all day if I felt I needed to catch up on my sleep." (p 114) "haggard and worn..bone-tired" (p 117) "being able to sleep" (p 127) "much needed rest and pampering" (p 133) "I was so tired" (p 139) "beaten down" (p 144) "Once I cooked a Thanksgiving turkey with the plastic bag filled with gizards still inside. I was quite capable of managing our busy household, but when it came to actually rolling up my sleeves and doing the work, that was a different story." (p 191) "I needed my sleep" (p 227) "too little sleep" (p 229)
Mika seems disingenuous when she describes the needs of those around her, as she tends to her own: "I escalated the let's take care of Mika program. I went out and bought expensive clothes...I became my own round-the-clock stimulus project. If it's true that you have to spend money to make money, then I would be living proof. I worked on my `makeover' for months, until I was so pleased with the results that I asked the folks at CBS to take a new picture of me." (p 128)
It is quite surprising then, when Mika does not know the name of the Exec. Prod. at CBS' 60 Minutes, Jeff Fager, while she was there: "Naturally, it got around that I didn't know who Jeff Fager was. It also got around that I was meeting with him." (p 162) She had asked three people in her office who Mr. Fager was, and either they didn't give Mika enough attention to understand her question, (Mika believes that she said it more like 'Jefaeger,') or they were playing dumb, but the fourth person's response was, "'Who is he?' my friend said incredulous[ly]. 'Ummm, he's only the executive producer of 60 Minutes.'" (p 162) After Ms. Brzezinski has told us, again, and again, and again, how important her career is, it is not hard to comprehend, why her co-workers were taken aback and 'incredulous,' when they heard that Mika had no idea - who Jeff Fager was...
If Ms. Brzezinski is an example of the `analyst' America has at the gate of reporting, it is no wonder that there is so much confusion and acrimony created by the media. Mika sounds as muddled handling the news, as she does in this book.
Reading this autobiography, with all of Mika's inconsistencies and hypocrisies, it is even harder to take Mika and Morning Joke the duplicitous blowviator seriously. It is a sad commentary on the press, that such a pretentious and phony duo are at the helm of a 'news' program. Mr. Scarborough joked, on air, about the death of a young, female intern found in his Congressional office, and then banned a journalist who mentioned it in a tweet, from appearing on MSNBC. (google: Scarborough intern). Sidekick Mike Barnicle has been fired for plagiarism and fabrication of false quotes (google: Barnicle plagiarism). How unfortunate, and irritatingly confounding, that these sanctimonious, vacuous, vapid 'anchors', have any kind of show, let alone, at a premium time slot.
After reading Ms. Brzezinski's book, one is even more 'incredulous' about that fact.
16 of 21 found the following review helpful:
All Things at Once Feb 25, 2010
By Leeanna Chetsko
All Things at Once, by Mika Brzezinski
The best part of this book is Mika's honesty, especially her no-holds barred recounting of a terrible accident with her and her baby, caused due to Mika's exhaustion of stretching herself too thin. But that's really the only positive of this book - it's very short, doesn't contain much of substance, and just generally left me wondering what I had read.
The message Mika's trying to promote is don't wait to have children, and that you can have all things at once...but the message isn't very effective. Admitting that she doesn't see her children all that much (in fact, while covering the events of September 11, 2001, she didn't see them for 20+ days), it appears as if the children are mostly taken care of by domestic help. Mika even writes about an experience where her nine-year-old daughter scheduled her own dentist appointment, rather than waiting for mommy to get around to it. Her year of being a stay-at-home mother failed miserably, as she couldn't cook, do laundry, houseclean, and thought that helping them with homework was hard. She admits she preferred being the "fun" parent, doing water balloon parties or such to make up for missing important events in her kids lives. Mika says she isn't cut out to be a full-time, stay-at-home mother, so I wonder why she wanted kids at all. She wrote about wanting them, and wanting a family in her early 20s, but never said exactly why.
The most interesting parts to me where the descriptions of Mika's parents, Emilie and Zgibniew. It sounds like they had a fascinating home life, and encouraged their children to pursue academics and other interests. I would've preferred to read a book about either of them more than their daughter.
I'm left wondering if she got a book deal only because of "Morning Joe's" popularity; is Willie Geist next in the lineup?
1/5.
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