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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?
08:18 PM - Apr 24, 2023
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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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Homeownership is spending your Friday night taking YouTube lessons in dryer repair.
10:13 AM - Apr 22, 2023
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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
10:15 AM - Apr 12, 2023
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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
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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.
10:54 AM - Apr 07, 2023
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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
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It's a good day here in Wisconsin. It feels like there's change in the air.
10:39 AM - Apr 05, 2023
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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
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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.
03:31 PM - Apr 01, 2023
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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:
10:38 PM - Mar 30, 2023
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Sure, you've seen Finding Nemo. But have you seen Nemo's Revenge?

[The latest in my 5-year-old's creepy art]
01:31 PM - Feb 24, 2023
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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]
07:35 PM - Feb 23, 2023
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My 5-year-old goes through office supplies like it's 1985
04:44 PM - Feb 22, 2023
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Yesterday, I got a text from my dad telling me how proud he was to see an interview I did show up in the suggested reads on his news app, and today, I got to visit my 8-year-old's class to talk about being a writer and doing research.

I'm so grateful for this job I get to do ❤️
08:03 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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