#PARENTS

[Parent honoring thread] So proud of my Mum right now. Not just of what she's achieved, but who she is as a person. When she was Minister of Education, she
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THREAD: One of the most frustrating things about this Big Ten season is that fans were left voiceless because the press failed to cover the conference’s decisions with the slightest
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Two thoughts on the argument (used in a non pejorative sense - argument is a democratic tool) over school reopening. One on where parents sit in this, and one on
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One of the hardest things about emergency remote teaching was trying to reassure my students when I was falling apart. Sudden bouts of crying, fears that my husband was going
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I’ve been wanting to say this for few weeks. It will be a bit long, pls bear with me. I’ve seen many marriages in my parents generation where the husband
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A thread about the importance of young children’s gestures, ending with a suggestion for parents.Research tells us that language emerges out of gesture: infants and toddlers can use their hands
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First year of uniI had a breakdownLife was absolutely horrible.Failing school,Fighting with parents,Working jobs I hated,Horrible financial position, Drugs, parties, wrong crowdsDark circles under my eyes Ego taking over my
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Really moving hearing @theJeremyVine show on newborns in lockdown. As a paediatrician with a specialist interest in infant behaviour and feeding, I think there’s been a huge and understandable increase
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Exclusive, I think: Boris Johnson appears to mislead MPs about the freedom schools had to offer vouchers, rather than parcels, to free school meals children. https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/149136/exclusive-boris-johnson-appears-t
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1/ The worst thing that could have happened to public schools was the #COVID Pandemic. As a parent that had kids in 6 different school in two states let me
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The level of work being sent, the zoom/live classes, the #distancelearning modeled after physical school setting...are these evidence that we care as teachers and as a system, or is it
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My high school friend had a poster listing ways in which gender stereotypes are bad for both boys and girls.One item that stuck out to me was something like "For
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I just had a mini breakdown trying to get online school set up. I have a tech job. I couldn't get it to work. I was sobbing bc I know
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What I find interesting about these debates on national identity is that the ones vociferously defending the "anybody can be Armenian" thesis are liberals who are ostensibly anti-west but whose
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A thread offering a reflection on the last ten months in #education1/10 In March last year, you moved to remote education within days of being told to limit attendance in
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no student is "behind" in a global pandemic.the difference is that poor students/families, as always, are doing everything they can to stay safe while rich students/families have the resources to
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