Carrie Melago
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Managing editor for local news @Chalkbeat . Before @wsj @nydailynews @nhregister . Coal miner's granddaughter. Ms. @jonlemire . I’m crafty and write about my kids.
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My 7yo, clinging to his belief in Santa: “You can’t afford all those presents. I did the math.”
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Can we drop our kids at bars and gyms on Monday if schools close? 🤔
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And what child wouldn’t want to dress up as the cast of Schitt’s Creek?
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My high school classmates claiming on Facebook that covid isn’t real and masks don’t work have remarkably no skepticism when it comes to multilevel marketing schemes involving dubious weight loss products.
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Hoping this is a stock photo
Moroccan woman kills boyfriend, cooks him and feeds remains to his coworkers after he said he was leaving her for another woman
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I think this is a list from my son's first grade class
Winter Storm Names for the 2017-2018 season have officially been released:
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“Her new favorite song is ‘You Are My Sunshine,’ ” said Smith. “And every time she sings it, I think to myself, ‘You have no idea.’ ”
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This
@AP
photo gallery of female journalists covering the Weinstein trial is the content I needed today
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This is great but would be more realistic shot in a dirty McDonald's bathroom stall or in a small office mother's room that she had to kick a male coworker out of first
#RachelMcAdams
pumping breast milk in Versace is the kind of power statement I needed today
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I know the summer solstice is in June, but I think today was the longest day of the year.
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Still better than wearing a backpack during rush hour
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5yo, upon seeing Bob Woodward on TV: “Is that Dr. Fauci’s dad?”
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When you have a morning Zoom but also you are an angler fish
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What is an acceptable number of times in a week to order your kids pizza for dinner?
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“I don’t think most parents realize the long-term commitment they’re making when they sign up for Elf on the Shelf.” Truth from
@katiebindley
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I am now reminiscing about all the things I used to consider problems.
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‘The crushing toll on working mothers’ mental health reflects a level of societal betrayal. “This isn’t burnout — this is societal choice,” she said. “It’s driving mothers to make decisions that nobody should ever have to make for their kids.”’
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Love everything about this Carrie Fisher interview but this line made me LOL
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I dunno, I spent my whole childhood wanting to live in New York City, and I was lucky enough that my dream came true, and the city gave me basically everything I have. So I think I'm just gonna stop reading the leaving NYC pieces.
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😬 “ His third wife had previously been married to his next-door neighbor. His fourth wife was the next-door neighbor’s second wife. His fifth wife, Friede Springer, had been the family’s nanny.”
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Who creates kids' content on YouTube? Who knows! The Wall Street Journal was unable to speak with nine of the top 10 YouTube kids channels
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"Police officer Miosotis Familia, the mother of three, gave her life protecting a neighborhood that had been plagued by gang gun violence."
Lynch on assassination of P.O. Miosotis Familia: "Violence against police officer cannot stand."
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Had a long wait for the 4 train with my sons this weekend. 7yo says, "It's nice we have so much time to look at the rats."
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Helen Boles Days, 96, Wynnewood, Pa., made what she had work for her.
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My preferred form of cardio is taking 45 minutes to change a duvet cover by myself.
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If you think things are screwed up now, the folks on the Instant Pot Facebook page are sharing moonshine recipes again so just wait.
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Despondent Elmo drinking Vitamin Water in pedestrian plaza is kiling me.
http://t.co/p2sGj6vGJc
http://t.co/QLV5XRfB6C
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My kindergartener: “My reading buddy wasn’t there today but it’s ok because he was saving the earth.”
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Me to my 5yo, regarding the empty bacon plate: "Exactly how much bacon have you eaten?"
5yo: "This is my second fourth piece."
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I’m sometimes haunted by memories of the tourists I accidentally gave bad directions to.
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"What really troubles me is that we are giving devices and products and apps that are designed to be addictive to children. And then we’re expecting them to self-regulate and getting upset when they do stupid things."
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If our on-demand doesn’t start working, I’m gonna need 6 people from this website to come over and act out “Paw Patrol” tomorrow thanks
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Mom from viral BBC interview video tells
@wsj
: "He usually locks the door. ... It was chaos for me.”
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Wow -- GreatSchools will overhaul its school ratings months after a
@Chalkbeat
investigation found the scores steered families away from schools serving more Black, Hispanic, and low-income students.
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We need a new word for today’s Sunday Scaries. It’s just another level.
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My 4yo just heard this clip on
@Morning_Joe
and yelled “they wanna take WHAT??”
Former Trump White House official Sebastian Gorka: "They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved."
😂😭😂😭🤦♂️
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My 6yo told me that if I got him supplies, he could handle remote art class himself.
He was supposed to make a calendar 🤷🏻♀️
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Did every journalist in NYC just receive the "NYC strip club offers free Valentine’s Day dinner for single people" or just education journalists?
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These are small things but I miss in-person parent teacher conferences. I miss being mystery reader in my sons’ classes. I miss seeing my kids’ little desks and artwork on the walls. I even miss taking sliced cantaloupe for parent breakfasts.
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Didn't think he was the type to go for bigger backyards and better schools
Central Park's famed Mandarin Duck spotted in North Jersey
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I read this, cried, then spent the evening doing whatever my 6yo son wanted.
Being needed, by everyone, all the time, has been so hard these past 16 months. But, as the piece so beautifully articulates, being needed is also everything.
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I welcome the UFOs as long as they get vaccinated for measles
"Wow, what is that, man? Look at it fly!" Navy pilots report unidentified flying objects off the East Coast of the U.S.
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The juxtaposition of Met Gala and Schneiderman in my feed is overwhelming.
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I met a woman from Ohio at a concert last night. She asked where I lived and when I said Brooklyn, she replied, "Oh the place with all the measles!"
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The competition is stiff, but this has to be among the worst “balancing it all” stock photos.
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Nora. Ephron.
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Guys the Instant Pot Facebook community just got a little too real
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Everybody ok over there?
The fall of a leaf in autumn is an orchestrated death. A complex, brilliant, beautiful death.
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Newark drove up its youth vaccination rate by 25 percentage points in just two months. Here’s how officials did it via
@patrick_wall
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Thrilled to share that I’m joining the team at
@Chalkbeat
next month, editing education news in NYC and Indianapolis.
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3yo wanted to talk to me about his favorite museum with cars and tires and bathrooms and snacks and I think it’s a gas station.
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“President-elect Joe Biden’s education secretary will face an immediate high-stakes test: whether to allow states to forgo their usual standardized testing again.”
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As Bill de Blasio stands onstage at a presidential debate, his education department releases troubling data showing more than 900 elementary school classrooms need remediation for deteriorating lead paint.
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So I wrote for
@washingtonpost
about saying goodbye to our final crib, and how we prepare for all the parenting firsts but not the parenting lasts.
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9yo, totally roasting me: “Why do you have so many New Yorkers? You aren’t going to read them all.”
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"Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier."
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Being married in New York City means repeatedly saying to each other “Didn’t we go there once when it was something else?” and then you die.
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8yo, summing up this period of our lives: “Even the baked bean commercials are sad now.”
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“We’re equipped to deal with occasional doses of uncertainty. But chronic uncertainty leaves us no time to recuperate. As a result, we might feel tired or irritable, or find our memory isn’t as sharp.
‘Our bodies aren’t meant to endure this.’”
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604 days ago I made this ridiculously ambitious home school schedule when schools closed. Yesterday my kids got vaccinated.
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Whoever said “It goes by so fast” wasn’t overseeing remote learning in a pandemic while awaiting presidential election results.
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I am both appalled and desperately want to do this
With vacation packages named things like “Teach from the Beach," and poolside cabanas outfitted with monitors and Wi-Fi, resorts are trying to attract families with remote-school children.
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Diploma by ski gondola is my fave coronavirus graduation
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Not sure I've ever been less ok with something in all my days
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Happening now at an Upper West Side parent meeting 👇🏼
Five local principals just stood up in support of pursing an integration plan. “This is a move towards diversity, towards equity, and it’s a great thing... the choice is yours,” PS 84 principal Evelyn J. Lolis tells the crowd.
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A mother in Queens said she spent three years trying to get her husband to do more before coming to terms with the fact that maybe it was never going to happen. “He notices the unfairness, but he just accepts it as something we have a disagreement about.”
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One Brooklyn school is already telling families it's closed tomorrow due to staffing shortages, and the DOE is offering retired teachers $50 extra per day if they sub five days in January
Amid omicron surge, NYC schools prepare to reopen after winter break
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The appalled look on Elmo's face is the best part of this story.
http://t.co/6IzDx9sg4Z
http://t.co/87FhTCKWsa
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Schools in Memphis can stay open until coronavirus positivity rate hits 25%. Twenty. Five. Percent.
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I'm coming up on seven hours at the office for the month so I guess I'll see you suckers in October
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“It’s especially important that kids get bored — and be allowed to stay bored — when they’re young. That it not be considered “a problem” to be avoided or eradicated by the higher-ups, but instead something kids grapple with on their own.”
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Move over, Legos. This is now the worst toy I’ve ever stepped on barefoot.
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My 3yo just made me a fake egg and cheese sandwich and a coffee in his toy kitchen, in case there’s any doubt he’s a native New Yorker.
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The NYPD has fielded 334 threats of violence against schools since September, an average of two a day
Threats against city schools have reached epidemic proportions
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5yo, when I forgot to put syrup on his pancake: “Will this pancake have any finishing touches?”
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It’s take your favorite stuffed animal to school day, and I caught my 7yo whispering to his Pokémon stuffie “today’s your big day.”
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Update: the newly minted 7yo thought it was both funny and delicious
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I am concerned about the woman in this article who gets up three days a week at 2 or 3 a.m. so she can have a "slow morning"
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@emilynussbaum
Bought a bag of 20 pairs of the same gray gloves for my sons. No looking for matches as we rush out the door, not a big deal if any get lost.
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Sixteen years ago, I spent the day outside of a Harlem apartment building with a tiger inside. I met the great
@ZHaberman
and
@wilcruz365
that day and had my first date with my now-husband that night. Now Ming is dead and I'm feeling a lot.
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Six. Years.
Study: Parents’ sleep doesn’t recover until 6 years after having a baby
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Our first grade teacher is doing a magic trick over Zoom for school orientation and promised the kids, “We will still become a classroom family together.” 😢
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My 6yo: “Being an adult is drinking beer and looking at your phone.”
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The coronavirus has taken a vicious toll on paraprofessionals, who represent just 19% of the workforce but more than 44% of deaths. The statistics mirror a stark reality: that the virus has fallen disproportionately hard on low-income communities of color.
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I was so moved by Flood Rat that I crocheted one — with a life preserver 💦🐀
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