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First time in my classroom since May…

So I‘ve decided it‘s time. I‘m going back to school for my Nurse Practitioners degree. Classes start Monday. I‘m so nervous, disorganized, ugh about it but I need to stop putting it off

Top left - I‘m the one behind the girl kneeling (she was so tall!), top right I‘m the one in the blue t-shirt, bottom left I‘m the one in the middle (obviously I succumbed to 80s curly hair, my next cut was a skin head- to be fair I hated both!).
Gary was developing into a life long passion, Cars was released 41 years ago last week 😱😱
#back2school #bunnyread

Hey Littens, my awesome co-worker @Momoniqui just joined Litsy. She is one of the sweetest people I know, so please give her a warm Litsy welcome. 😊

Had to break from reading for fun to do some school work and read for that. Adulting really sucks sometimes....sigh.
#schoolreading #adulting

#BookMail I got today 📬🎉

I loved Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex last year so I wanted to try more of her work, and this looked up my alley. It's an analysis of how young women form self confidence while growing up and how it can be fostered. It's been a while since it was published but I'm hoping that some of the studies aren't too dated and are still relevant.

My only complaint about this book is that I wanted it to be longer. And now that more than two decades have passed since Orenstein published her books, I wonder how the girls she profiled have done now that they're adults, and I also wonder what this book would like like if Orenstein observed girls in 2016 & with things like social media. I will be thinking about this book for a long time.

A look at 6-8th grade girls, how they're treated differently than boys by teachers, peers, educators, parents, & eventually themselves. It opened my eyes to the "hidden curriculum" we teach & how desperately it needs to change. Published in 1994, it's clear the line we can draw between what's in this book, & the circus that is the 2016 presidential race. Sadly, still all too relevant. (Full review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1742677351)