Tina Fey: Working Parents are 'More Sympathetic'

By Kelly Fisher Posted Mar 10th 2011 09:25AM

Tina Fey certainly knows a thing or two about being a working parent, and she isn't afraid to voice her opinions on the subject.

"My daughter brought home a book called 'My Working Mom,'" Fey told OK! Magazine of 5-year-old daughter Alice at the 20th annual Bunny Hop. "It had a witch on the cover, and I was like, 'This hurts my feelings.' She was like, 'Mom, I can't read. I thought it was a Halloween book.'"

Fey, who will celebrate her 10th anniversary with husband Jeff Richmond this June, says Alice thinks "daddy's funnier" when it comes to household comedy. However, it's Alice herself that makes the two of them laugh.

"She's very funny," Fey said. "Last night I called to check on her, and she was chanting 'apple juice, apple juice, apple juice, apple juice' over and over again until she got some apple juice. On '30 Rock,' she is the writer behind the phrase 'I want to go to there,' so I have to give her credit for that."

Fey, whose book 'Bossypants' will be released next month, hopes to debunk some of the "working mom myths" she's discovered since becoming a working parent herself.

"The biggest thing you realize when you have a kid is how many other people in your workplace are dealing with that," she said. "When you're single, you're like 'Let's work 'til 10.' You don't care. Once you have a kid, you're like, 'Oh yeah, if I'm exhausted because my kid was up all night with a cold, so are 10 other people.' It makes you more of a sympathetic human being."

Soon, the '30 Rock' crew will have one more mother among them: Jane Krakowski. Fey is careful, however, not to overwhelm the expecting mom with her opinions without being asked.

"I always try to hook them up with something like 'a good baby nurse,' or little things, but I only weigh in if someone asks my opinion. That's the best way to offer it. I'm trying to think of things we've talked about, like whether you need a Boppy or not. I'm like, 'Yes, you do need a Boppy.'"

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Thursday 10 March

By deckerfam

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Frankly, I'm sick of Tina Fey. Never liked her much in the beginning. She's no rocket scientist. And had it not been for her ridicule of Sarah Palin, she wouldn't get near the attention she gets. She should thank Sarah.

By cohara1950

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agreed

By Enough Already

This is why these celebrities need to stick to a script. First, most stay at home moms and working moms do not have the help that Tina is able to afford. All moms whether they are stay at home or working understand the difficult task of raising children.

By djmcintyre

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Really, Tina Fey? You're better because you work based on what, an opinion from a woman with other people raising her kids most of the day? Wow, what an arrogant, baseless opinion. What's hard is to quit a good job to actually raise your own kids, because once you make the decision to have children, some people believe it's actually their responsibility, not a crew of nannies.

By steener122

Yes a kid screaming "apple juice" over and over is just HILARIOUS, not annoying. I'm sure SHE thought it was funny as she was on the phone.

I'm not knocking her for being a working mom, I'm just saying that I don't think if she had been there it would have been as cute.

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