ok, i finished writing up that section. i feel like i answered the question of how mothers negotiate the boundary between protect and prepare, really, throughout the analysis, so it doesn't take a whole lot here. i think. i hope. the section isn't that sophisticated; i kind of go study by study. but i don't care, i think it is good enough ( Read more... )

it's 10 am, i've been up about an hour. i'm kind of tired ( Read more... )

ok, so i've gone through almost all the cards in section 2 of the theory chapter, and written up sort of summaries of what should go in that chapter by topic area, and started organizing that. more organization still must happen, but it seems like a good start. i'm going to bed. i'll continue this in the morning ( Read more... )

way to be positive, eh ( Read more... )

where to put:

-stuff about my epistemology -- it hasn't made it in yet at all... and i would have thought it would go in methods...

i think there was something else but now i'm not sure what

today i started early, took a chunky break after skating where i had trouble getting back to work, and then got back to work with a vengeance ( Read more... )

last thing:

karen helped me come up with a final new title. lorraine likes it. here it is:

protecting and preparing children: peace activist parenting in a post 9/11 world

(it could still change)

i don't feel like writing this - my wrist hurts from scrawling notes on little notecards, old-school style. literally. how i used to write research papers in high school and even college. the funny thing is, i remember needing to do 40 notecards for the mickey mouse report in 11th grade, and it didn't seem that difficult then, but that's about as ( Read more... )

with less than 10 pages of this absolutely enormous chapter (about 70 large, two-column pages), i'm going to stop and go to bed. it has been very useful. i'm pleased with myself for going back to developmental psych prelim-assigned reading, or course-assigned reading, because it has been preselected ( Read more... )

i can't believe that over the past two hours i have ( Read more... )