Thank you for this public acknowledgment of the value dynamic of “childcare” and the value attribution to those who care for the children and for the example of relating it to your experience Alicia.
I enjoy and take value from following your thought and experience processes.
I love you calling this distinction into question. Obviously I’m a stan for teachers but I always wonder about the divisions that deem certain professions careers and others jobs.
I just found my way to your newsletter via The Examined Family, and I've had a lump in my throat all morning reading through your gorgeous, thoughtful reflections on teaching and early childhood education in particular. The separation between care and learning reflects so powerfully on our cultural and political devaluation of both. I'm struck by how much might change on a personal, communal, and systemic level if we were able to weave care and learning together and lift both up. Thank you for your beautiful writing!
Hi Alicia! I'm so appreciative of your comment and I'm glad this resonated! I love how you brought up care because I think care as a guiding principle is so underrated. Hopefuly by modeling care to each other, we can at least make change on the personal and move up from there?? Thank you so much again and have an amazing day!
Thank you for this public acknowledgment of the value dynamic of “childcare” and the value attribution to those who care for the children and for the example of relating it to your experience Alicia.
I enjoy and take value from following your thought and experience processes.
Thank you! I want more praise on how valuable these systems and those who work in them are! Thanks for reading <3
I love you calling this distinction into question. Obviously I’m a stan for teachers but I always wonder about the divisions that deem certain professions careers and others jobs.
Yes! And especially how those divisions always seem to fall across gender/race/class/immigration status lines...............
This brings me back to the many wonderful childcare settings I've worked in over the years. Thanks for this!
Thank YOU! More childcare love!
I just found my way to your newsletter via The Examined Family, and I've had a lump in my throat all morning reading through your gorgeous, thoughtful reflections on teaching and early childhood education in particular. The separation between care and learning reflects so powerfully on our cultural and political devaluation of both. I'm struck by how much might change on a personal, communal, and systemic level if we were able to weave care and learning together and lift both up. Thank you for your beautiful writing!
Hi Alicia! I'm so appreciative of your comment and I'm glad this resonated! I love how you brought up care because I think care as a guiding principle is so underrated. Hopefuly by modeling care to each other, we can at least make change on the personal and move up from there?? Thank you so much again and have an amazing day!