Omg the teen has a dorm room for university starting next month 🥳 #academicParenting from a different perspective 😄

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if you set aside a day to work on a really exciting project, one or more of your children will be at home sick

#Momademia #parenting #AcademicParenting

I wrote a blog about becoming a parent, dealing with post-partum anxiety, buying a lot of yarn, and creating a crocheted blanket charting my parenting . . . an eclectic mix. #parenting #academicparenting #academia #academicchatter #crochet

https://jillymackay.com/post/goodmumproject/

If you’re going to the European #publichealth Conference this coming November, please write to them and ask for childcare services (even if not relevant 4U).
Offering childcare would be one small thing EUPHA could do to make this conference a bit more inclusive.

#eph2023
#equity
#inclusion
#AcademicParent
#AcademicParenting
#academicchatter
#academicconference
#DecolonizeGlobalHealth

Happy #WorldFencingDay2023! 🤺 I'm glad my son enjoys the sport and it gives me 2 hours of uninterrupted reading time when I need to catch up on refereeing or some challenging sketching practice.
#FencingIsForEveryone 🤝 #AcademicParenting

Planned to spend the 3 weeks before vacation prepping for fall classes. So of course kiddo #2 brought home preschool plague. Kiddos home for a week, me down for the count for 2 more weeks

Now it's <1week until the semester, camps are over so there's no child care. I'm entertaining kiddo #1 all day & working frantically late every night after bedtime to *try* to get ready. I'm going to be burned out before the semester even starts 😩😩😩 #AcademicMom #AcademicParenting #parenting #MomLife

Today's reading is 'Transnational Solidarity' by Carol C. Gould, 2007, 'Self-Respect, Excellences, and Shame' by Rawls, 1971, and lastly, a WIP paper by Derek Edyvane (2023/24 forthcoming) which I'm by far enjoying the most! #reading #academicreading #academicmastodon #AcademicChatter #academicparenting #phdlife #solidarity #citizenship #politicaltheory

Turns out my 7yo thought I only have to work 3 days/week (i.e. the days I commute to Cologne during term). "Oh NOW I understand why you always say it's a lot of work!" she commented when I explained that this is, unfortunately, not the case. #AcademicParenting

Hey, I'm now a fosstodon.org person - mastodon.scot was a great server, but I mainly used Twitter as a work vehicle and I think I'm better off treating the fediverse in the same way. I am really interested in #ResearchMethods #OpenScience #OpenEducation, and recently I've gotten very passionate about #AcademicParenting In my spare time, such as there is, I'm a big crafter and also enjoy #writing fiction. #introduction

Steps of organizing childcare because some academic work event is outside daycare hours, a thread: #academicparenting #academicparents #momademia @academicsunite
1. Prioritize events I really need to participate in weeks and months in advance.
2.Clarify funding source and provider (again, because rules keep changing)
3. Email family office
4. Email event organizer about relevant details (online, offline, would they be able to provide help etc.)

Kids are in bed. 4yo birthday celebrations are over (for today). Time to sip champagne and read about codon bias for tomorrow's lab meeting!

Ngl this stiff is FASCINATING!! Can't wait to hear what my students think

#ProfLife #PUI #UndergraduateResearch #AcademicParenting

It was so predictable.

I blocked a whole week for writing, everything went well, and then my child got sick. Again. I’m so tired of this. 🥴🤮🤒

But also: hooray for having supportive parents-in-law!!! 🥳

#Momademia
#AcademicParenting
#AcademicMums
#AcademicMamas

Wegen der Novelle des #WissZeitVG würde ich gerne jetzt schon streiken. Da morgen der Kindergarten wieder wegen eines #Streik|s geschlossen ist, berechtigerterweise, komme ich ohnehin nicht zum arbeiten. Also, #Solidarität mit allen #Streikenden, überall.
#AcademicParenting

I somehow managed to (re)write 1.600 words yesterday despite 7yo's audiobooks on repeat as background noise (and not all of them are bad). If I manage to do the same today I might finally finish something that should have been finished MONTHS ago, so fingers crossed! #AcademicParenting #AmWriting

Frantically trying to get some writing done while 7yo is telling her toys that "at least YOU always have time for me" (insert side-eye in direction of working mum). She knows which buttons to push. #AmWriting #AcademicParenting

Literally one of the best moments in the life of a bookish mum: when kids learn how to read. Yesterday 7yo VERY seriously worked her way through two chapters of a book she has borrowed from school library & it was the cutest (also: school libraries ftw!). #AcademicParenting

Call me mother of dragon(s). Also: it's not dark anymore for the school run! #AcademicParenting

Years of giving talks in an academic setting, defending a thesis, and generally discussing difficult topics with smart people have honed a very specific skillet and the true purpose finally revealed itself to me:

Answering Kiddo's why questions ...

#SundayThoughts
#AcademicParenting
#ParentingPrep

Current status in long distance commuting & #AcademicParenting: every Thursday morning when I'm back home 7yo finds sth (anything, really) to cry about. I'm neither complaining nor looking for advice, it's her way of dealing with me being gone for part of the week. It's just a lot of tears.

7yo accidentally spilled some glitter (who am I kidding: lots). This means I will now find glitter EVERYWHERE for the next 2 years or so. There goes my professionalism, guess I will be known as "the prof who sparkles" (not in a sexy vampire sense of the word). #AcademicParenting