HeyJaredRachel O'Dwyer
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My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, Iâm not too worried (opens the original)
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On Friday mornings, we Educate Together parents are invited into class to admire our childrenâs work. Last week in third class it was acrostic poems about September. While his classmates had opened theirs with vignettes of squirrels gathering nuts, sunny mornings and who was sitting next to them (âSaoirse is on my table! Eli is on my table too!â), my own child had gone full Sylvia Plath on the assignment: âSchool returns, along with my miseryâ. I should have snapped a photo there and t
Rachel O'Dwyer: I felt only confusion â even shame â about every choice I made as a parent (opens the original)
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Lately thereâs renewed friction between parenting styles. One school of thought models gentle parenting, the other an authoritative mode now sometimes called #FAFO (f**k around and find out). Gentle parenting ranges from acknowledging a childâs feelings to more radically child-centred philosophies that argue the word ânoâ can trigger a stress response in little ears. Videos of authoritative parenting, meanwhile, feature satisfying reels of crying children put out on the side of the road
Iâm now a lecturer at the college that didnât offer me a place when I did my Leaving Cert (opens the original)
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For the past eight years Iâve been a permanent lecturer in the National College of Art and Design. Thatâs my full-time job and I love it. But when I was seventeen I applied here and didnât get in. Iâm happy to share this fact with colleagues or students if it comes up, but it almost never does. Because my focus was on making a portfolio, how many points I got in my Leaving Cert wasnât the ordeal for me that it is for many Irish students. Still, I know how it feels to open a letter with
Rachel O'Dwyer: Sardine Girl Summer - Now AI is deciding what we wear. Is that so bad? (opens the original)
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As a lover of clothes, Iâve fallen more than once for the ugly shoe trend. And I donât mean the styling trick of pairing Doc Martens with a frothy Communion dress. I mean a different kind of trend, where I think a shoe is hideous on sight and then, through repetition or indoctrination, it becomes desirable. It happened in my 20s with Isabel Marantâs basket sneakers, a foamy block of a shoe with a hidden wedge. More recently itâs Margielaâs Tabi boot, a literal cameltoe with a split bet
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