@patriciazaballos.bsky.social
Writer, former teacher, veteran homeschooler. Working on mashup of memoir & cultural history about losses in kids’ independence & creativity—and how to push back💥 Oakland, CA https://linktr.ee/patricia.zaballos
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18.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh! ¡Puedo practicar mi español mientras leyendo un libro favorito!
18.02.2025 02:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Picture me screaming this one from a rooftop. My hands gesturing wildly, my voice growing hoarse. This matters so much. Please consider giving it some time—for the kids.
patriciazaballos.substack.com/p/the-declin...
Moms!
03.02.2025 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Power on, California Dept. of Education!
01.02.2025 01:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On a trip and instead of posting photos to IG for the benefit of the meta-dude, I’m texting them directly to friends who are interested and I kinda love it. Feels old-school and subversive
28.01.2025 03:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@leilaniclark.bsky.social hi Leilani! It’s good to connect with you here. I looked through your following list and we follow a lot of the same folks—and I found a lot of good new follows in your list. Yay!
25.01.2025 04:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There’s still time to win a copy of Nancy Reddy’s new book The Good Mother Myth, about where we got so many bad ideas about motherhood—it’s fascinating! Come on over to my substack & share a link to something inspiring. That’s it! Good odds to win right now! open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
24.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dang! I hope this one is easier.
24.01.2025 06:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had shingles at 35, two weeks after a miscarriage. I’ll take temporary vaccine misery any day.
24.01.2025 06:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That was totally my experience, with the second dose only.
24.01.2025 06:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I’ve got a copy of Nancy Reddy’s fantastic new book The Good Mother Myth to give away! Come on by and leave a link!
open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
It’s so good!
23.01.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This list by Courtney Martin of ways to face political grief by taking action locally is inspiring. There’s something for everybody! open.substack.com/pub/courtney...
23.01.2025 04:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Sigh: A TikTok ban means losing the one platform making Americans want to read books
By the super smart Leigh Stein thehill.com/opinion/tech...
Oooh! 🤩
21.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whoop!
21.01.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@mannahattamamma.bsky.social 😘 and hi!
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⭐️ Want a free newsletter that includes a monthly cabinet of curiosities!
Okay, do your magic! 💫
P.S. if this sounds like you, I’m here: open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
⭐️ Want to keep the conversation going with a smart, engaged community in the comments
⭐️ Like writers who are, dare I say it, essayistic—who prefer to think, and wonder, and self-interrogate…
⭐️ Prefer to wonder and figure out their own answers rather than being told what to do
⭐️ Appreciate research but want to be drawn in by story…
My wishlist for Substack. Come find me?
Dear Substack, please bring me curious folks who:
⭐️ Are concerned about how much childhood has changed in recent decades
⭐️ Are especially riled up about kids’ losses in independence and creativity…
So exhausted with them messing with the platforms that are working for us
19.01.2025 05:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The TikTok ban permanently reshapes the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape towards the right. Cheering for it in any way is extremely shortsighted www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...
19.01.2025 05:37 — 👍 1294 🔁 260 💬 48 📌 16Most people my age don’t get why it matters. 😔
17.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tiktok gave me an audience & proved to me that people want to hear what I have to say. I learned from 1000s of parents, teachers & young people who took time to comment on my videos. TikTok made me believe in my work—and now that outlet is likely to be stolen from us.
17.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m distraught about the tiktok ban. My writing looks at topics that get sidelined—I’m a former public school teacher whose “expertise” came as longtime homeschooling parent—I couldn’t get essays, op-eds past media gatekeepers. I write on losses in independence & creativity for kids in past 30 yrs
17.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Laura’s recipes and weekly newsletter are top notch!
12.01.2025 01:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, it’s likely to get banned by the Supreme Court in the next few days, but I appreciate you helping me achieve my dream of 5,000 followers before it does! 😂
11.01.2025 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A book about Japan. Never forget 😂
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