Comments on: WFPP Guest Post: Back to school: solidifying the cerebral http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/08/wfpp-back-school-solidifying-cerebral/ Parenting, privilege, and rethinking the norm Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ScholasticaMama http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/08/wfpp-back-school-solidifying-cerebral/#comment-3070 ScholasticaMama Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:42:23 +0000 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/?p=633#comment-3070 I finished my dissertation when my daughter turned three. I worked in our home office. Now that I'm finished, she doesn't want me in there for any period of time. Home is for home she tells me, and work is for work. Not a bad attitude, seeing as how so many of us bring our work home. (Mind you, I'm grading final exams at my kitchen table right this very moment, while she plays at her grandma's.) I finished my dissertation when my daughter turned three. I worked in our home office. Now that I’m finished, she doesn’t want me in there for any period of time. Home is for home she tells me, and work is for work. Not a bad attitude, seeing as how so many of us bring our work home. (Mind you, I’m grading final exams at my kitchen table right this very moment, while she plays at her grandma’s.)

]]> By: maria http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/08/wfpp-back-school-solidifying-cerebral/#comment-1024 maria Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:12:35 +0000 http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/?p=633#comment-1024 <a href="http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2009/01/pro-choice-sure-but-pro-choice-feminism/" rel="nofollow">ginormous caveat</a>, indeed. i've been not-working, in school, and seemingly-housewife-ish too, and i can definitely relate to this post. i've also "desperately desired to model economic and creative self-sufficiency" and it's frustrating when i can't, or feel like i can't. thank you for sharing this with us, jenn. almost makes me want to go back to school. (almost.) ginormous caveat, indeed.

i’ve been not-working, in school, and seemingly-housewife-ish too, and i can definitely relate to this post. i’ve also “desperately desired to model economic and creative self-sufficiency” and it’s frustrating when i can’t, or feel like i can’t. thank you for sharing this with us, jenn. almost makes me want to go back to school. (almost.)

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