Just wrote in an email that the worst part of academia is when my breaks from school don’t line up with my kid’s. I wrote it flippantly, but I don’t think I’m too far off.
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I hate myself for creating a ClassDojo account, but kiddo’s school is going all-in, so not sure I have the choice. First observation is how confident the app is that it can make me pay extra for free software I don’t want to use in the first place.
I have some regrets about being a week late on this article review because I took my kid camping—but not a lot, to be honest.
Kiddo catches a glimpse of the ref list for the research statement I’m preparing for tenure: “Why does it say Greenhalgh so many times?”
Thinking today about all the people who have more impressive qualifications than I do but are less secure professionally because academia isn’t fair.
No paper could sell me on Vygotsky (and sociocultural theories of learning generally) as much as being a parent has.
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