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Summary: Interesting look into motherhood, esp for stay at home moms
Review: Ms. Krasnow's life has been an interesting one. Her shift from full-time working woman to stay at home mom wasn't an easy one. For those of us who have also found this shift challenging, this book provides validation. Ms. Krasnow emphasizes finding the joy in the mundane, learning that all day, everyday is not fireworks but that there are many, many small joys. An enjoyable read.
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Summary: Interesting look into motherhood, esp for stay at home moms
Review: Ms. Krasnow's life has been an interesting one. Her shift from full-time working woman to stay at home mom wasn't an easy one. For those of us who have also found this shift challenging, this book provides validation. Ms. Krasnow emphasizes finding the joy in the mundane, learning that all day, everyday is not fireworks but that there are many, many small joys. An enjoyable read.
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Summary: A gothic novel for the motherhood years.
Review: Oh the clothes, the fame, the pain....and all given up for the boys...a foundation of guilt? Get real honey, how many women can be married to an architect (lowest paid of all professionals) and have four kids, let alone have the house, the nannies and the professional help that Ms. Krasnow has been able to afford through luck of birth. She didn't surrender - She just found a new vehicle to project the "intelligence and eccentricity" she supposedly had taken such pains to hide in earlier attempts to impress. Don't worry, they were lost in this book.
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Summary: Long, bragging, and she didn't really solve anything.
Review: Some of her stories are interesting, but I quickly got bored of her mentioning the same star's names over and over. She seems to enjoy name dropping. I also didn't understand why she jumped into marriage and childbirth and then did her motherhood vs career soul searching. I don't think she really solved her problems. Whats she going to do and feel when her boys grow up?
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Summary: Didn't enjoy in the least!
Review: Sorry to all the previous reviewers, but I cannot say that I liked this book. I couldn't see that Iris Krasnow had much surrendering to do. This book isn't about motherhood, it's about Iris's life as a journalist, student, lover etc... Her reference to her children is minute at best. This book was a wasted couple of hours, that I will never get back. Don't make my mistake, and read it too.
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Summary: The essence of motherhood: truth for career women
Review: The author hits me where I live. Iris Krasnow reflects to me the conflict between being career driven and following my heart and probably my biology. In the early days of motherhood I rapidly forgot why I ever worked late in the evenings or on weekends. Eventually, I could not imagine leaving my baby for few hours. It absolutely felt like I was surrendering to my destiny: mommy and nurturer of the family. In several different ways, the author attaches words to this emotional shift that a new baby creates, and out of the storm she finds that there is a logical truth. We are here to be companions and guides to the children that we create. When we can be clear about our own drives, we find that focusing on the little people in our lives is our fullfillment and never a sacrifice
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Summary: Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent and Excellent
Review: The best book I have ever read she tells it all. Tells you everything you ever will need to know about Motherhood
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Summary: Touching in the end, tough getting there.
Review: The entire book could have been successfully summed up in 50 pages. The main point was life changing, but getting there seemed long. She seemed to repeat herself over and over, as if to make the point she was successful.
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Summary: Surrendering means victory, not defeat.
Review: The quest to spend enough time with our children and enough time pursuing our own dreams is the central angst of our generation of post-feminism women. It is never easy. Yet there is no substitution for the grounding joy that comes from being with our children, precious time that comes but once. We can always go back to pursuing worldly careers; we can never go back to this eyeblink of life when our kids are young and cling to us like monkeys. When I started writing this book, our four sons were all in diapers. Now they are ages nine, seven and five year old twins, and I am wrenchingly aware of how quickly time flies by. This is ultimately what my book is about; it's about being present as much as possible in the fleeting present of our young childrens' lives.Surrendering to motherhood does not mean defeat; it means yielding to the higher power of childrearing, and that is a supreme victory
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Summary: Vacuous, New Age Drivel
Review: This book is, quite frankly, horrible. It conveys the "struggle" of a self-indulgent female from an upper-middle class background who has to make an agonizing "choice" between a high-powered career and motherhood. After spending several years studying and partying at a prestigious university, the author went on to pursue a high-powered career that left her feeling "empty" and "spiritually unfulfilled." After studying transcendental meditation and attempting other dubious New Age panaceas, she tried something truly groundbreaking--she married a well-to-do male and started producing babies. Come on! I find it hard to feel sorry or sympathetic for a woman who has never known true hardship or struggle. This book has nothing to say to millions of women for whom the combination of work and motherhood is not a choice but a necessity. I recommend reading Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" to understand the choices women have to make in the REAL world. "Surrendering to Motherhood" is nothing but a 212 page guilt trip aimed at both working women and the men who love them.
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