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Summer’s Over

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

By a professional faculty dad of a 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter.   Summer’s Over. First week of school. Kindergarten and third grade. Back to soccer schedules, swimming lessons, and the busy-ness of fall. But hold on just a second.  This isn’t about them.  It’s about me!  Summer’s over for me, [...]

  • What is this?

    Here in the basement of Kerr, in the office of Childcare & Family Resources, we hear stories. Weird, heartwarming, horrific, sad, and stories so funny they draw in a crowd. We think you need to hear these stories. You need to know of the single undergraduate student with two kids. You need to hear about the tenure track dad expecting his first baby, the classified staff couple that can’t afford childcare on two incomes, the professional faculty whose partner was just laid off. How she just potty trained Jr. while working full time. How he negotiated more leave. How the professor extended her deadline. How she manages to pump and still type emails. How he brought his baby to class.

    So we invite you, parents of OSU, to come here and share your stories: the good, the bad, and the crazy. What you do is amazing, and the whole campus needs to know about it.