A supervising doctor does some mansplaining, white people all look the same, choosing kids schools stinks, but missing their performances is okay.
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2 Things For You To Read:
#1: “Where was the lecture in medical school for dealing with a mansplaining boss?” from Defiant Bitch MD. I discovered her site via FB group — she’s a physician in training, and while she has only written two posts (as of this writing), you need to read them.
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#2: “Is it racist to say that all certain groups of people “look the same?” And other things.” by Save. Spend. Splurge. The answer isn’t straightforward.
2 Things I Read For You
#1
Source: A Gai Shan Life
Title: Impoverished schools and making the best decision for our child
Summary: The author lives in Northern California. Housing prices are exorbitant, and while her family makes a good income, access to highly rated public schools would require a multi-million dollar home. Instead they settled somewhere more affordable, that has more socioeconomic and racial diversity, but an elementary school with fewer resources. While financially responsible, she’s second guessing whether she made a good choice as a parent.
Conclusion: This is a dilemma for people in many places. A study highlighted in The New York Times discussed social mobility, describing how boys of black parents drift towards poverty, while the same is not true for boys from other groups or for women. While the author could move to a LCOL place and have good schools and a high income, perhaps that’s not a choice. Either way, just by virtue of having intelligent, hard-working parents who make a good income, there’s a good chance their kids will be fine anyway.
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#2
Source: Wall Street Journal
Title: Quit Feeling Guilty About Missing Your Child’s Performance
Summary: Parents — don’t feel guilty about missing your child’s performances. Got that? That’s pretty much it. It’ll teach them how to deal with things on their own as well as instill in them a better understanding of the real world, i.e. the work you do that supports whatever it is they are doing.
Conclusion: The more kids you have, clearly the more difficult it is to attend every “major” performance. Ditto the more odd hours you work or the more travel you do for work. My father worked extremely long hours (still does) — we still usually ate dinner with him, at 8pm, when he got home. I don’t think I realized I was in middle school that wasn’t a “normal” dinner time. My mother took me to all my practices, but my dad did plenty of drop offs to school. He also made it to most/all of my theatre performances. If I had been talented enough to be in a major sporting event he probably would’ve tried to make those, but my swimming/water polo career wasn’t exactly Olympic level. Kids adjust — I adjusted to 8pm dinners and knowing my dad wasn’t going to sit and watch me at swim practice, but that he would attend at least one performance of the plays in which I performed.
We have 3 kids — age 9, 4, and 1. We already can’t make every school party or function, and sometimes we skip certain school events. We both work and we have other things we need to do. The oldest one doesn’t always appreciate it, but he has to know the entire world and our entire schedules can’t revolve around him. It doesn’t mean we don’t try to attend as many as we can — we do. But it takes a lot of hard work to pay for that sweet Honda Odyssey.
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