Mayor Bowser adopts a child (baby?)

[Anonymous]

Delighted for her and her child. Hoping she does some work on in-home daycare or otherwise working to increase options for, and reduce cost for daycare in this city! My kids are too old for me to benefit, but would be good for all of us...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delighted for her and her child. Hoping she does some work on in-home daycare or otherwise working to increase options for, and reduce cost for daycare in this city! My kids are too old for me to benefit, but would be good for all of us...

Did you see the announcement last week about new space for child care at UDC and Deanwood Rec Center?

Communikids will run the center at UDC, and provide more free Pk3 and Pk4 seats via the OSSE Enhanced PreK (non DCPS) program.

https://oaa.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-announces-opening-two-new-child-care-spaces-udc-and-deanwood-recreation-center

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will she take 12 weeks FMLA? Part of me wonders if she is trying to scale back her career with this move, but time will tell!

I think that the kind of people who see taking maternity leave negatively are in the vast minority in DC. In fact, I’d bet that it benefits her politically as a positive example of what many of us have been pushing for.

There’s no reason her deputy mayor’s can’t run the majority of the show. They’re about as useful as she is, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delighted for her and her child. Hoping she does some work on in-home daycare or otherwise working to increase options for, and reduce cost for daycare in this city! My kids are too old for me to benefit, but would be good for all of us...

YES I hope this means she suddenly "gets it" and makes some real moves on improving all kinds of conditions for working moms in DC!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to her.

And I would imagine this cements the fact that Shepherd won't be losing its Deal feed anytime soon (jk - needed to make it relevant to this board).

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/new-mom-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-adopts-baby

You aren't wrong. this makes me feel more sure about shepard park too!

She’ll be a great mom. But this kills any chance of meaningful changes to fix Deal/Wilson overcrowding while she is still Mayor. Sigh.

This is so true, suburbs we are coming *sigh*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will she take 12 weeks FMLA? Part of me wonders if she is trying to scale back her career with this move, but time will tell!

I think that the kind of people who see taking maternity leave negatively are in the vast minority in DC. In fact, I’d bet that it benefits her politically as a positive example of what many of us have been pushing for.

There’s no reason her deputy mayor’s can’t run the majority of the show. They’re about as useful as she is, so...

She did an interview yesterday and said she was taking a week off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to her.

And I would imagine this cements the fact that Shepherd won't be losing its Deal feed anytime soon (jk - needed to make it relevant to this board).

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/new-mom-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-adopts-baby

You aren't wrong. this makes me feel more sure about shepard park too!

She’ll be a great mom. But this kills any chance of meaningful changes to fix Deal/Wilson overcrowding while she is still Mayor. Sigh.

This is so true, suburbs we are coming *sigh*

Bye!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I adopted a newborn around that age as a single woman. The child has brought me great happiness. I hope the same for the mayor.

It did kill my career, but hopefully she’ll have better luck.

She's running unopposed.

Vince grey was probably going to run as an independent, but is probably now screaming into a pillow

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who saw this news and hoped she would drop out of the mayor’s race? FFS. She’s taking only a *week* off to care for a newly adopted child?

[Anonymous]

Nope - I hoped she would drop out of the “race” too! I think she is a terrible mayor but I want her to be a fantastic mom, so she should find something else and move on!

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not happy that I'm so cynical that the first thought I had was "I wonder where this child will go to school"

I think that was a lot of people's first thought.

My first cynical thought was “why adopt in the middle of your time in office.” Sorry, but she owes it to the city that elected her to be present in her job as mayor. But she’s done a terrible job so far, so whateves, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I adopted a newborn around that age as a single woman. The child has brought me great happiness. I hope the same for the mayor.

It did kill my career, but hopefully she’ll have better luck.

She's running unopposed.

Right, but then there is that pesky “doing the job” part. But again, I hope it works out well for her. It’s a balancing act, as we all know. I’m glad I wasn’t mayor. It was difficult enough being “random professional.”

More than likely she will hire a nanny or has a lot of family help.

Yes, but I will tell you that you don’t wait 45 years for a newborn only to hand over the majority of care to someone else.

Ummm yeah, people do that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Will she take 12 weeks FMLA? Part of me wonders if she is trying to scale back her career with this move, but time will tell!

I think that the kind of people who see taking maternity leave negatively are in the vast minority in DC. In fact, I’d bet that it benefits her politically as a positive example of what many of us have been pushing for.

There’s no reason her deputy mayor’s can’t run the majority of the show. They’re about as useful as she is, so...

She did an interview yesterday and said she was taking a week off.

Wow, a whole week. Poor kid

[Anonymous]

Have you noticed that most if not all of our current council members who are DC residents and mayor (even candidates) have never spent a day in a DC school?

Mayor Bowser went to Seton. Grosso, the liberal's liberal, went to school outside of DC, White (Robert not Trayon) attended Gonzaga. I think he may have attended a DCPS elementary school.

Current Ward 1 candidates Reid, Oyster, and then the Field School, Lori Parker, Madeira, Goodwin for council at-large went to DCPS for elementary then to St. Albans.