🗓 Dates: 4 classes, 6/5 - 6/26
🕰️ Time: 2 hour sessions, Wednesdays 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
🗺 Location: Alchemy House, Fort Greene
💰 Tuition: Sliding scale of $150-$450
👥 Class Size: Class limited to 22 students
📋 Apply: Here
About
This class is for people who want to be parents, or may want to be parents.
Guests will speak on their decision to become parents, their experience with pregnancy and birth, and their new lives with children.
Schedule
This schedule is tentative, but representative of the topics and speakers we had during Spring Semester.
Class Session | Topic | Guest Speaker(s) |
Wednesday June 5 | American Baby Culture | None; class is spent in reading groups |
Wednesday June 12 | Raising Kids in NYC | - Parents raising their toddler in NYC in 2024
- Parents who raised their children to adulthood in NYC |
Wednesday June 19 | Pregnancy and Birth | - A doula
- A midwife
- A panel of pregnant women and women who have given birth recently |
Wednesday June 26 | Early Childhood Education | - Parents who taught their kids to read very young
- A Montessori educator |
Homework
- Babysitting: You will help care for a baby for one evening (probably Priya and/or Nicole’s baby). It’ll be kind of like babysitting, except one of us will be there too in case you need help or have questions.
- Readings and Videos: We keep other homework intentionally light. We occasionally assign light readings or short videos.
The teachers
Priya Rose is pregnant and by the time you’re reading this, she’ll probably have a baby ☺️.
She’s a writer, community builder, and former software engineer based in Brooklyn.
Nicole Ruiz is mom to Rafa, a sweet and capable 1 year old who loves to dance. She’s a stay-at-home mom, writer, and former hard tech VC.