Delaney Parrish

I work with economists on media & comms. Former comms director, @BrookingsEcon. Budding novelist, rep: @AevitasCreative. Spend a lot of time with @ivan_t_ivanov

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

@omzidar It's better in Chicago than it was in DC, but sometimes we close early for a dusting and my only explanation is it's a chance to save $ (some staff salaried, some hourly). Sometimes we pay a teacher to come to our house for the hours they're closed, so...double cost!🫠

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Firearms were responsible for 20% of all child/teen deaths in the US for both 2020 and 2021, vs an average of <2% in similarly large & wealthy nations
Even in US *states* with lower child/teen firearm mortality, numbers much higher than in peer countries.
https://t.co/po68ZqP5wt

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Someone in a Lincoln Park moms FB group said she can’t keep up with the ironing & asked if everyone else just sends their toddlers to daycare in wrinkles and I would like to respond with this picture of my daughter’s drawer.

Like ma’am, I don’t even fold shit.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

@zanchema I nominate “On balance,…”

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

@chrissyteigen Gem! I thought it was "gym" and didn't ask to hear it in a sentence 😭😭

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

I really think a lot of people confuse "I'm not doing that b/c I'm setting boundaries" with "I'm not doing that b/c I am inflexible and unwilling to be the slightest bit overstretched to help someone else."

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Every other day I wake up and think I should quit my job and work full time for gun reform. Really can't think of anything more important.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

"You can pay online using a payment app that is incompatible with your bank...or by sending a cashier's check."

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

"You can apply entirely online," he says as he sends me a non-fillable PDF to print, sign, scan, and send back to him.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

My daughter is learning to speak in two languages and I only know one of them. When I don't know what she's saying, I respond "wow, how cool" and now she's pointing at things like trash cans and going "wow, how cool."

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Anyhow stupid Twitter disputes aside, formula is crazy expensive and kids shouldn't be punished b/c they weren't born into $$. All children deserve love and food and care. Thank you.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Being a parent has convinced me that kids are a truly marginalized group in 🇺🇸. They need adults to survive, but we refuse to guarantee them the basics (childcare, formula etc., health care) & we make it hard for even well-resourced parents to get these things on their behalf.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Like, I try to take my daughter to restaurants on the early end so she doesn't disrupt people, but if you're complaining about a kid listening to an ipad on a ✈️without headphones then I invite you to research noise-cancelling headphones for kids that actually work. They are $130

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

@nataliekins @JaBogen Yup, work took priority and then Covid took away most out-of-the house leisure options. Hope you can schedule something special soon!

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

Can I get this as a bumper sticker? Asking as a Virginia expat.

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

“Maybe we can agree on a show we both like,” she says to her toddler in desperation.

[Colin Flanagan @flanagancol]

Last night, Toledo City Council approved $800,000 to purchase the medical debt of Toledoans, creating roughly $160-240 million in debt relief.

This is what it looks like when your government works for you. Toledo is leading the way!

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

@zanchema Steve Jobs: pls treasure my life’s work 🙏🏻

Babies: it’s whatever

[Delaney Parrish @DParrish]

The baby accepts instant live video calls with her grandma on the box I keep in my purse as an ordinary, unspecial occurrence. But I got her light-up rain boots & she thinks they are possessed by the devil. She runs screaming, "What the boot? Why the boot? No boot!"