Tag Archives: parenting

Ebola Mom, Part 35

May 21, 2015Kids/Teachingebola mom, kids, parenting, teaching, ues parentsEmily

(Continuation of Ebola Mom Part 34 and part of the Ebola Mom series )

Good. She needs someone to like.

Parent of the Year

May 21, 2015Kids/Teachingkids, parenting, teachingEmily

“This school is so fucking dumb.” –parent, to his child, on the front steps of our school, when the security guard wouldn’t let him in early.

Yes, sir. It’s the school that’s so fucking dumb. You nailed it.

Ebola Mom, Part 34

May 20, 2015Kids/Teachingebola mom, kids, parenting, parents, teaching, tutoring, ues, upper east sideEmily

(Part of the Ebola Mom series)

Alright, well. I never needed you.

Bitch.

Ebola Mom, Part 32

May 11, 2015Kids/Teachingebola mom, kids, parenting, parents, teacher problems, teaching, texting, tutoring, ues parentsEmily

(Continuation of Ebola Mom Part 31 and part of the Ebola Mom series)

Alright, well. I officially don’t understand what is happening.

Every Child Left Behind (in a pool of tears and anxiety-induced vomit)

May 10, 2015Kids/Teachingeducation, john oliver, kids, parenting, parents, pearson, race to the top, robindel, sing, standardized tests, teacher problems, teachers, testsEmily

Teachers, people with children, or anyone who knows or cares about teachers or children, this John Oliver rant on standardized testing is a MUST WATCH.

Every bit of it is hilarious because it’s so painfully and pathetically true.

Two of my personal fave highlights:

1. “Pearson are the educational equivalent to Time Warner Cable– either you’ve never had an interaction with them and don’t care, or….they HAVE RUINED YOUR FUCKING LIFE.”

2. Did anyone else know that Pearson uses Craigslist to recruit test-graders? Yes, that’s right– “Pearson chooses test graders the same way that you’d look for a mattress full of bedbugs or a no-strings-attached hand job.” This is like when I found out that Sing at Camp Robindel was judged by the local balloon lady. (sorry to the 99% of readers who have NO idea what I’m referring to, but to the 1% who do, you know the EXACT disappointed feeling I’m talking about).

New Parents Are So Sensitive

May 9, 2015Familyaunt, aunthood, babies, family, family dynamics, nephew, parenting, parentsEmily

I don’t get it– my sister and brother in law are totally fine with me calling my chubby-cheeked baby nephew “little porker” or “my little pork pie,” but the second I suggest we stick an apple in his mouth and roast him over a fire, they get all weird.