The best advice I can give you is to seriously take it one day at a time AND enjoy it as much as possible. Maybe make a list of all the reasons you want to do this (now) and revisit it when you’re feeling it’s too much.

Hey, Jezzies! I have some good news I want to share, plus an appeal for life advice. I just found out I got into the graduate fellowship of my dreams, which means that I get to go to school, and I know that I have a job upon finishing my degree. Now, I need to pack up all my stuff and move to DC by mid-May (help!).…

I celebrated my birthday this week by getting blackout wasted (the fun kind). Except now I’m paying for it.

How many of you have noticed that the people who claim to have the thickest skin and be able to take whatever is handed to them usually turn out to be the biggest whinging babies when you actually are straight with them? Not just dudes, although it’s usually dudes.

Hey Jezzies, whatcha drinking? Vernors and codeine cough syrup for me! This gal has bronchitis! I’m loaded up on antibiotics, steroids, tesslon pearls and cough syrup. Ah, the joys of living with an ER nurse.

As someone studying fairy tales at uni (my job prospects sparkle!) not all European fairy tales are bad. There was a big push to make princesses more docile, but initially it was different. For example, a Cinderella-like princesses who kill an ogre to get to the party (by offering to brush the ogres hair for the…

Totally agree about the librarian. And I can't help but wonder: does this library have a committee or friends group or whatever? Why not join that? And encourage book purchases without subtle sexism? After all, books have to retire at some point, and replacements have to be purchased.

I agree - it seems like her message was “that’s not something friends do”. But, that’s exactly something friends do! Not even like, that asshole friend - I have very fond memories of weekends watching horror movies and trying to make each other scream in the bathroom during/after! (The Shining + creepy basement…

I agree there is value in discussing and understanding that imagery absolutely. I do think though that having it dimly available in this setting and therefore creating the assumptions of value, entertainment, education is not correct or responsible in that respect. Better if done individually by a parent or as a part…

Aren’t they all done that way? I’ve heard of ones where instead of the envelope going to the bakery it goes to a friend who sets something up (colored balloons in a box and colored confetti in a balloon being the two I remember off hand) but I’ve never heard of a gender* reveal party where the parents weren’t finding…

This is so fucking over the top complicated. Someone I know of had the doctor write it, went and bought a blue and a pink outfit, gave the envelope to the cashier and asked her to wrap the appropriate onesie and then unwrapped it at the party. I would have been so tempted to sub in like a green or purple onesie. Let…

Don’t want to give her any page views.

Good for your principal! That was (at least) attempted assault and well deserving of a suspension.

yeah this is fucking psychotic. ‘burn the book’. look i realize the author was kidding but libraries also function as an archive. weeding should be best left in the capable hands of librarians (an overwhelmingly female profession, i might add) and not some new mom who’s stumbled upon third wave feminism. hands off the…

I see what you are saying, but you could provide every single resource to support the child emotionally and you couldn’t ensure that there would be *zero* behavior incidents. The expectation that we can “fix” the kids is really frustrating. Part of my job is writing behavior plans and working with teachers and school…

Especially if kids read classics, they’re going to run into all kinds of sexist and racist bullshit, and outdated attitudes. When I read the chronicles of Narnia, my parents took the time to talk to me about CS Lewis and his attitudes, and the historical context so that I could enjoy the story but also think…

As a Children’s Librarian in a public library, I have to tell you this is not the case in many libraries. Many library systems have gone to pre-selected collections from distributors like Baker and Taylor. It saves them the salary of a librarian dedicated to collection development, which is a full time job at anything…

As another teacher I would disagree that male and female negative behavior is treated the same except possibly in a special needs classroom. Many, many studies have been done showing that girls who are loud, disruptive, violent, etc. are shut down and disciplined much more quickly and stringently than boys doing the…

Exactly- “How dare my little one be exposed to sexism!”

As the little girl who was constantly getting pushed in pre-school, I agree. I cried about it at home, and not even so much because I was getting pushed, but because the teacher ignored it or told me it was just him flirting ‘cause I was pretty. (The boy made it clear it was because I was a girl, and girls don’t get…