Parenting in the Pandemic

Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Boston CollegeGeorge Theoharis, Syracuse University

• Documenting Our Collective Experiences: An Introduction to the Book.Section I. Fierce Urgency Of Now: Pandemic Parenting, Justice, And Identity.Chapter 1. Ice Cream for Breakfast; Vincent Cho.Chapter 2. For Everything There Is a Season; Jennie Weiner.Chapter 3. Privileging Love During a Double Pandemic; Gretchen Givens Generett.Chapter 4. Dear Isabella; Dalia Rodriguez.Chapter 5. Pandemic Homeschooling and Decisions Made of Care and Fear; Susan W. Woolley.Chapter 6. Privilege Doesn't Mean You Didn't Work Hard; George Theoharis.Chapter 7. Enough; Erica O. Turner.Chapter 8. Seeking Refuge in Times of Crisis; Mario Perez.Chapter 9. Holding, Trusting, and Loving in 2020; Josh Bornstein.Chapter 10. Humanizing Education as Our World Unravels; Carrie Sampson.Chapter 11. The Ways We Parented; Decoteau J. Irby.Section II. Got To Go Through It!: Schooling At Home.Chapter 12. Mama e; Gabrielle Oliveira.Chapter 13. Carousel Parenting: Up, Down, and Around We Go Again; Jacob Hall.Chapter 14. Realtime Ruminations: Young Children's Thoughts on Social Life in 2020; Ariana Mangual Figueroa.Chapter 15. Social Isolation While Self-Isolating; Shaun M. Dougherty.Chapter 16. When Going Away to School Goes Away; Sarah Woulfin.Chapter 17. Should the Kids Go Back to School? Wrong Answers Only; Erin Marie Furtak.Chapter 18. Wrestling With Grace; Noreen Naseem Rodriguez.Chapter 19. Paradoxes, Pedagogy, and Parenting; Patrick Proctor.Chapter 20. A New Process of Living; Rebecca Lowenhaupt.Chapter 21. We Are Sensitized to Rareness; Bill Black.Chapter 22. The Only Way Is Through: Parenting My Teenagers in a World Upended; Sharon Radd.Chapter 23. My Kids Will Be Fine: What About Everybody Else's? Joanne Marshall.Chapter 24. The Challenges of Music Teaching and Learning During the Pandemic; Elisa Macedo Dekaney.Chapter 25. Unexpected Bonus Time; Edmund Ted Hamann.Section III. We Are Here For The Storm: Seeking Balance In The Midst Of Crisis.Chapter 26. Paradoxes in Pandemic Parenting; Martin Scanlan.Chapter 27. Chaos and Connection; Lisa M. Dorner.Chapter 28. Single-Parenting as an Academic During a Global Health Pandemic: Lessons Learned About Managing Distraction, Mom Guilt, and Self-Compassion; Sera J. Hernandez.Chapter 29. Particles and Dueling French Horns; Sharon Dotger.Chapter 30. Struggling Beautifully: Raising Two Black Girls in the Midst of Global Health and Racial Pandemics; Terrance L. Green.Chapter 31. Lockdown; Alexandra Freidus.Chapter 32. Uncertainty, Transitions, and an Unexpected Opportunity; Kate Spence.Chapter 33. Life Can Be Hard, but It Is Beautiful; Jing Lei.Chapter 34. Straight Outta the Containment Zone; Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen.Chapter 35. Just the Two of Us: Solo Parenting During the Pandemic; Jessica Rigby.Chapter 36. A Story of a Part-Time Parent During the Pandemic; Bong Gee Jang.Chapter 37. The Challenges and Gifts of Being a Parent and an Academic in a Pandemic; Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj.Chapter 38. Blurring or Erasing the Lines Between Work and Home? Raquel Muñiz.Chapter 39. Tenure Tracking From Home; Rachel Silver.Chapter 40. Pandemic Parenting in the Middle of Life and Academic Transitions; Diego Román.Chapter 41. Sinking and Swimming Through the COVID-19 Pandemic; Kristen Bottema-Beutel.Chapter 42. The Things I Learned; Katharine O. Strunk.Chapter 43. Tenured Professor, Novice Parent: A Pandemic Tale of Love and Learning; Melissa A. Martinez.Chapter 44. Professor/Parent; Corrie Stone-Johnson.A Final Note to Our Readers.About the Authors.

Lowenhaupt and Theoharis have curated a magnificent collection of essays that captures the hopes, fears, tensions, and possibilities of parenting in a time of crisis. A gift to parents and educators everywhere as we continue to process and reflect on what the pandemic has taught us about what it means to educate others, and perhaps through a renewed imagination, our very own children."" — Sonya Douglass Horsford, Teachers College, Columbia University""In this powerful collection of essays, we have a rare window into how the personal and professional worlds of academics collided during the COVID-19 pandemic. What emerges from these reflections is an intimate portrait of the longstanding tensions in our lives as public intellectuals and parents that have long burned as embers, but are now set ablaze by the public health, economic, and educational crisis we have lived through during the last year. Reading these essays will help us to see questions of education policy and practice in a new, more personal light."" — Matthew Kraft, Brown University