How to you accommodate close and extended family, times of crisis and your academic career #withoutgoingnuts?
Taken from real life: mourning period for the #academicmum, the = time after losing a beloved person, when you care for your family and colleagues advise you to "take time" and you work nights and weekends to get exams marked + lectures prepared, which got left behind while you necessarily focused.
Hi, are you okay now? Just saw you post. Anja
Semester breaks are usually the only times when academic mums are able to go on vacation with their family - tricky when semester break and school holidays don't run at the same time. Where are you the academic/calendric year? How do you balance family & job at university?
This weekend, this Commuting Academic Mum had her teenager at her place of work. They travelled all the way to see mum who is in examination stress. Going home today and mum is going to review another thesis. Are you a Commuting Academic Mum? How do you balance family life & academic career?
Being an Academic Mum might also mean: Being a Commuting Academic Mum, because your dream job often is not where the family lives and moving isn't always an option.
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Today, I met with another woman scholar, @sabrinakirschner.bsky.social, at café Tanteleuk in Dresden. My cake was powdered with rose-gold cake glitter dust. As academic life is far more prosaic than glittery and sweet, we should all have a big slice. Have a nice week.
When you are a commuting academic mum [Very typical for academic dads, but a penny for every time I got: "Isn't it hard for the kids? How does hubby cope?"] and stuck because of a train drivers' strike and can't see your kids anyway, it is reading & writing time in the office.
