Summary Of Confessions Of A Juggler By Tina Fegy

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In “Confessions of a Juggler,” author Tina Fey describes her studies of how she’s dealing with her own assumptions about having a second baby and concludes that she was overthinking the situation. She states that women feel obligated to go to work then come home and do the cooking and cleaning, she states in the article that the topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield. Fey expresses that people underestimate her parenting style by asking her various of rude questions such as “How do you juggle everything?” or “Are you going to have more kids?”. Growing up, she was taught not to talk about people’s plans of reproducing because she will never know what they might be going through.
When raising her first-born daughter, Alice,

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