Renee Olsen

NIU Math dept, mother of the Olsen five

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@NotTodayJoe @politicalmath Same…my husband & I just could not watch it

[Robert Kaplinsky @robertkaplinsky]

A big problem in education is that teachers keep their insecurities to themselves for fear of being judged. I wish it wasn't that way. So, I wrote a list of my 10 biggest educator insecurities and hope it'll make it easier to talk about.
https://t.co/lMYLTshIIB

[Ella Frei @EllaFrei17]

The Supreme Court handled sports. But here in WI we’re not done. In my own district, boys are still allowed in girls’ sports — and in our bathrooms and locker rooms.

Our legislature passed bills to protect girls. But Gov. Evers vetoed them — three times.

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@mirrenelle I agree that some women have complications that take time or even an operation to recover from. And my daughter had to have a c section for health of baby. But I happily had 5 children (age 20-28 now); no regrets

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

I used to admire Senator Warren. I believed she was one of the few politicians willing to confront institutional corruption, name hard truths, and defend people with less power.

Her response to the SCOTUS decision on Title IX has shown me that my admiration was misplaced and naive.

The Title IX decision is not about “MAGA.” It is not about “targeting trans kids.” That framing is evasive and dishonest. The issue is whether women and girls are a distinct category of human beings with their own human rights.

Female sport exists because sex matters in athletic competition. It exists because girls and women were historically excluded, overlooked, underfunded, and displaced. Title IX was not designed to make female-only competition accessible to male athletes. It was designed to ensure equal opportunity for women and girls to participate and succeed in athletic competition.

Senator Warren knows this. Or she should. If she does not understand it, that is shameful. If she does understand it and says this anyway, that is worse.

To pretend that defending female sports is merely hatred toward trans people is cynical and dishonest. By framing the defense of female sport as bigotry, she is not protecting the vulnerable. She is erasing the legal rights of women and girls and dismantling the feminist civil rights project.

She is asking women and girls to surrender their their human rights, their distinct humanity, their privacy, and their fair opportunities to buy political loyalty from a misguided, misogynist, homophobic, and unprincipled cause.

I do not believe compassion for trans-identifying males requires sacrificing women and girls. I do not believe women’s rights should disappear the moment they become politically inconvenient for leftbwjng politicians. And I do not trust politicians who call themselves feminists while refusing to defend female people when it actually costs women and girls their hard won himan rights.

Senator Warren has lost credibility. Not because she disagrees with SCOTUS, but because she chose a manipulative framing that treats women’s rights as negotiable and women and girls as acceptable collateral damage.

This is not courage. It is not feminism. It is a betrayal of left-wing values, cynical political pandering, and moral cowardice.

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@Utterly_Jean @scotchsoupmaker But home grown lettuce and heads of lettuce don’t pose the same risk

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@KatMcKinley Try Louise Penny

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@clawrence We have 5 kids; told all of them early on that we would not cosign any loans. First 4 graduated with their BS degrees with $0 in loans. Youngest (halfway through) will probably have about $25,000. One of our best parenting decisions

[Preethi Kasireddy @iam_preethi]

Your kids regulate through your nervous system until around age 7. They reflect your internal calm or your chaos.

This is why your toddler melts down more when you're stressed and stays more balanced when you're grounded. Working on yourself helps them more than working on them.

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@fearmeitsbre I didn’t do that for pregnancy but gave up deli meat several years ago. I only eat it a couple times each year

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@AnneOfTheBooks As a Christian parent who half homeschooled my children, we did full units on Greek mythology and many other religions and people groups. Not sure how it’s bad to read literature from a variety of viewpoints

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@sarcasticmommy4 We switched from pop up to camper with sink & bathroom. I love hiking in new & familiar places, sitting by campfire talking and reading, meeting new people

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@GOLDBABYO We learned this from another family: do a “big” party on bdays 5, 10 & 15 only. Other bdays just do some simple things at home: invite another family for dinner & cake. One of my better parenting decisions. 5 kids so we also couldn’t afford much even on the “big” years

[Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu]

I provide my most important work for free.

I don't believe in gatekeeping the essentials behind a paywall.

You can find complete reading curricula for children and adults, early childhood learning curriculum, and more at the link in my bio.

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@Melda1384191 23

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@DavidZorkocy My husband - age 55 and 3 grown daughters- would NEVER step foot in a women’s restroom

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

I think we’d all be happier if we borrowed a few habits from our grandmothers. Read more. Bake more. Rest more. Worry less. Slower days, a softer life.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

My grandma accidentally became a Yelp celebrity in her retirement community. She thought she was leaving private notes for herself about which restaurants she'd been to. She was leaving detailed PUBLIC reviews but rating everything by her bowel movements afterward. "Gave me the runs - 2 stars." "No problems - 5 stars." "Constipated for days - 1 star." She had 847 followers before we noticed. The local newspaper did a story on "the area's most honest food critic." She now gets recognized at grocery stores. She still doesn't fully understand what Yelp is. She thinks she works for them now.

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@reddit_lies Feeling so blessed that our one grandchild - now 1 - is universally loved by his grandparents, parents and aunts/uncles (our other 4 children). Have family times changed since JCs birth? Yes but we embrace it!

[Renee Olsen @ReneeOlsen70]

@afoidinlove Have 5 adult kids (ages 20 to 28) and a 1 yr old grandson. Being with JC this last year has reminded me of all the things I loved when my kids were small: all the firsts, the cuddling, seeing them figure things out, how happy they get over small things. Many blessings