9-year-old: What does A.D. mean?
Spouse: Anno Domini. It's Latin for in the time of the lord.
9-year-old: *sighs* That's disappointing. I thought it meant after dinosaurs.
Spouse: Anno Domini. It's Latin for in the time of the lord.
9-year-old: *sighs* That's disappointing. I thought it meant after dinosaurs.
01:47 PM - May 09, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
The US values children only to the extent that they can be used as cogs or cudgels in a white, patriarchal, capitalist machine.
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Unhappy meals - by Tesnim Zekeria and Rebecca Crosby
This week, a federal investigation found that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises illegally employed at least 305 children, including some as young as 10 years old. The three franchises — Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richwood LLC, and Bell Restaurant Group I LLC — operate 62 stores across Kentuck..
07:11 PM - May 04, 2023
4 Threaded Spouts
Intensive parenting has big downsides for kids and families. Yet, it's hard not to feel compelled to hover when "well-meaning neighbors" (like the woman who followed my kids home from the bus stop and gave me a snide comment when I came up to meet them) are so quick to judge.
09:59 PM - May 03, 2023
So, what if a parent deems that their child is harmed by the *removal* of these materials from curriculums or schools?
https://apnews.com/article...
https://apnews.com/article...
apnews.com
Indiana bill could make book banning in schools easier | AP News
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers on Thursday gave their final approval to a bill that could make it easier to ban books from public school libraries. The bill would require school libraries to publicly post a list of books they offer and provide a complaints process for community members.
08:32 PM - Apr 27, 2023
5-year-old: Mommy, will you give me money for eating my dinner?
Me: Uh, no.
5-year-old: What if I spill it on the floor and then clean it up?
Me: Uh, no.
5-year-old: What if I spill it on the floor and then clean it up?
08:18 PM - Apr 24, 2023
I love that when my 8-year-old decided she wanted to learn how to use the sewing machine, she didn't ask me--she asked her dad.
06:42 PM - Apr 23, 2023
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08:36 PM - Apr 07, 2023
Homeownership is spending your Friday night taking YouTube lessons in dryer repair.
10:13 AM - Apr 22, 2023
Grad school tends to teach students that serious learning requires misery and drudgery
Which is why I like using my Qualitative Methods course to help students remember that serious learning can also be seriously fun
(Like learning data analysis by interpreting messages about gender in kid boo
Which is why I like using my Qualitative Methods course to help students remember that serious learning can also be seriously fun
(Like learning data analysis by interpreting messages about gender in kid boo
10:15 AM - Apr 12, 2023
My 5-year-old's solution to the heads-tails-or-ears bunny question is to eat all of them first.
09:33 PM - Apr 09, 2023
5-year-old: Can I watch TV?
Me: Sure. One episode, and then we're gonna play outside.
*45 minutes later*
Me: I thought we said one episode.
5-year-old: This is the same episode! I just got to the last minute then rewound it and started it again.
Me: Sure. One episode, and then we're gonna play outside.
*45 minutes later*
Me: I thought we said one episode.
5-year-old: This is the same episode! I just got to the last minute then rewound it and started it again.
04:05 PM - Apr 09, 2023
A nod today to all the lapsed and ambivalent Catholics muddling their way through holiday family traditions that feel hollow or even painful in the context of distrust or even disdain toward the church.
02:39 PM - Apr 09, 2023
A Field Guide to Grad School is now available as an audiobook!
The book uncovers key parts of grad school's hidden curriculum, explains why all that important information tends to remain hidden from students who need it, and offers insights for making that information more accessible to all.
The book uncovers key parts of grad school's hidden curriculum, explains why all that important information tends to remain hidden from students who need it, and offers insights for making that information more accessible to all.
10:54 AM - Apr 07, 2023
Me, trying to get up the energy to go to work after being up with a puking kid half the night.
09:49 AM - Apr 06, 2023
It's a good day here in Wisconsin. It feels like there's change in the air.
10:39 AM - Apr 05, 2023
Me: Remember--Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit this week, so I need you to keep the house neat.
5-year-old: I called Grandma. She said she doesn't care.
5-year-old: I called Grandma. She said she doesn't care.
07:33 PM - Apr 04, 2023
As I teach my students, kids' clothing only became gendered when capitalists realized they could double their money by selling separate clothes for girls and boys. Before that, kids wore gender-neutral dresses, which better accommodated growth spurts and toilet training.
09:38 AM - Apr 04, 2023
8-year-old: For my birthday, can you get me some short-sleeve shirts--like, the kind where the sleeves are so short they're not really sleeves?
Me: You mean tank tops?
8: You know about tank tops?!
Me: I'm pretty sure my mom and I had this exact conversation in 1995.
Me: You mean tank tops?
8: You know about tank tops?!
Me: I'm pretty sure my mom and I had this exact conversation in 1995.
08:35 PM - Apr 02, 2023
Elder Millenials: the last generation to endure the awkwardness of *both* having to call and talk to random parents in order to find out if your friend was free to play *and* having to text parents you've never met before to ask if their kid is free to play with yours.
09:17 PM - Apr 01, 2023
Me: What do you want for breakfast?
5-year-old: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!
Me: Depends on what you're thinking.
5: I'm thinking oatmeal with mini wheats and strawberries and chocolate chips and milk and peanut butter!
Me: I think you were the only one thinking that.
5-year-old: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!
Me: Depends on what you're thinking.
5: I'm thinking oatmeal with mini wheats and strawberries and chocolate chips and milk and peanut butter!
Me: I think you were the only one thinking that.
03:31 PM - Apr 01, 2023
Apparently it's opposite day on CNN, where Mike Pence just said "I thank God that Americans are living longer. The average life expectancy has continued to go up. We're healthier."
(Wolf Blitzer didn't correct him).
Meanwhile, the reality:
(Wolf Blitzer didn't correct him).
Meanwhile, the reality:
10:38 PM - Mar 30, 2023
Traveling with children is 15% thinking "this was such a great idea--we should totally do this more often" and 85% thinking "this was a terrible idea--we should never do this again."
02:06 PM - Mar 19, 2023
8-year-old: In my class, we have jobs, and substitute is definitely the hardest. Because there were four kids out sick today, which meant I had to do ALL of their jobs!
Me: Welcome to labor-shortage-induced-overwork.
Me: Welcome to labor-shortage-induced-overwork.
08:56 PM - Mar 09, 2023
Today, a US Congressman told a group of gender scholars that if we want to persuade policymakers to pass paid family leave and affordable childcare policies, we have to show those policies will help grow the economy, because rights-based arguments won't work.
So... Happy International Women's Day
So... Happy International Women's Day
08:51 PM - Mar 08, 2023
My spouse: [explaining why Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays during Lent]
My 5-year-old: Did Jesus at least bring a knife to the desert?
Spouse: I don't think so.
5-year-old: He should've brought a knife with him, because then he could've cut a cactus to eat and drink.
My 5-year-old: Did Jesus at least bring a knife to the desert?
Spouse: I don't think so.
5-year-old: He should've brought a knife with him, because then he could've cut a cactus to eat and drink.
06:43 PM - Mar 03, 2023
I went into my office this morning and found my 5-year-old using the printer/scanner/copier to copy blank pieces of paper. I asked what he was doing and he told me: "You used so much paper printing your book manuscript, so I thought I should make us some more."
11:51 AM - Feb 26, 2023
Sure, you've seen Finding Nemo. But have you seen Nemo's Revenge?
[The latest in my 5-year-old's creepy art]
[The latest in my 5-year-old's creepy art]
01:31 PM - Feb 24, 2023
We ran out of snow day activities, so I taught my 8-year-old how to map the social network in her class.
[Apparently, she's more of an ethnographer, though, because she kept complaining that the rules of the diagram are too rigid to capture the complexity and flexibility of the ties]
[Apparently, she's more of an ethnographer, though, because she kept complaining that the rules of the diagram are too rigid to capture the complexity and flexibility of the ties]
07:35 PM - Feb 23, 2023
In response to Jessica Calarco.
Highly Recommend your A Field Guide to Graduate School!
11:08 PM - Feb 22, 2023
My 5-year-old goes through office supplies like it's 1985
04:44 PM - Feb 22, 2023
