Nicole Correia
Bio
Between being a parent and a teacher, I see things that thrill and terrify me on a daily basis. So, I decided to start writing them down. This resulted in two self-published books and a random assortment of ideas I started saying out loud.
Stories (6/0)
The Healing Hack Hoax
I’ve officially co-oped an existence as Depression Barbie this summer. Instagram hate scrolling sold separately. We are so often told to take care of ourselves. Take care! It’s something we say without thought. I’m guilty of this myself. Drink water, go for walks, exercise. Well, I call bullshit. That’s maintenance. That’s not healing.
By Nicole Correia7 months ago in Confessions
The Week That Broke Me
If anyone uses the word “natural” to describe breastfeeding to me ever again, I cannot be held liable for my reaction. There was nothing that was natural about breastfeeding as far as I was concerned. Sure, when I was pregnant, I had every intention to breastfeed. I bought a pump. I bought a ton of storage bags for the copious amounts of breastmilk that I was going to store away in my freezer like a good little mother. I bought nipple cream and breast pads, because of the warnings that women had given me about just how miserable my breasts were going to be. Yes, I had read the books telling me that breastfeeding was going to be “hard” and “frustrating,” but I just needed to stick with it because if you give your baby formula, you are the devil (obviously, they didn’t use that word, but it was generally implied with all of the literature). Whenever I would read pros and cons, the breastfeeding section had a long list of pros for the child and one to two cons for the mother, but the formula section was pretty much all pros just for the mother. You’re selfish, remember?
By Nicole Correia7 months ago in Chapters
Grade Inflation is Real
Graduation rates are higher than they have ever been. That sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? You would assume that higher graduation rates correlate to higher rates of literacy and math proficiency. Except that is not the reality. The reason our graduation rates are so much higher is because we have lowered the standard to get there. We’ve lowered the standard everywhere.
By Nicole Correiaabout a year ago in Education
- Top Story - July 2022
Can We Drop the Evil Mother-in-Law Trope Already?Top Story - July 2022
She is the stuff that nightmares are made of. A creature so fearsome that she is the butt of jokes at weddings, a prediction of the woman we are all terrified of becoming. The mother-in-law.
By Nicole Correia2 years ago in Families
