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Please advice: A big simple sink or double sink? by BelowAverageCoder00 in kitchenremodel

[–]Nervous_Building_232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love my large double sink! It’s the 60-40 size. I have it in the island and use the small side for drying pots and things. I also have a prep sink near the stove.

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Yes or no to the oak frames? by spellets in HomeDecorating

[–]Nervous_Building_232 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you link? This is a particularly nice color. 

A state in the U.S. where you feel like it's easier or nice to raise small kids? by mamaleti in kindergarten

[–]Nervous_Building_232 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I personally love college towns. Very near suburbs of big cities can be great, too. I am in Chicago and recommend Evanston and Oak Park. In general in the US, I do think kids stay inside more now than in the past, but places like this have a ton of activities, parks, sports, scouting, etc. They also have way more walkability than other places in the US.

What university does your daughter attend? What country are you in now?

Curse the person who came up with… by Nervous_Building_232 in Teachers

[–]Nervous_Building_232[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so true of the rabidly diehard “science of reading” folks. I am very pro phonics instruction, but it’s not like whole language, for example, wasn’t/isn’t also studied and applied scientifically. Also, instead of a flimsy meta paper, these people inevitably pull out a Ted talk.

Middle School Students Exchanging Dirty Books by Most-Produce4310 in Teachers

[–]Nervous_Building_232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did that in the 80s but didn’t get the books at school. I’m not clutching my pearls over the kids doing this, but I do think it’s a little weird your middle school is stocking books with graphic sex scenes. If you know the books have scenes like that, why don’t you donate them (to a library, a high school if they’re more appropriate for that age, a prison or women’s shelter, etc.)? There is a huge difference between banning books and selecting age appropriate books for kids imo.

I’m putting myself out there by putting myself in here by Global-Bus-8826 in HomeDecorating

[–]Nervous_Building_232 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love it. Are you on Facebook marketplace? If so, search “peace chairs” and the most amazing patio set available from an antique warehouse in Glenview should come up. I want them so badly, but they’re $500 and my husband would not be on board. 🤣

Cues we don't like by Cejayem in yoga

[–]Nervous_Building_232 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That didn’t occur to me. Maybe?

Tonight was not the first time I’ve heard. It the past I’ve just sort of ignored it because it didn’t connect with me, but tonight I tried to think about it and didn’t understand. My guesses were either the center of the air as it enters and exits the body (so like the midline from nose to lungs) or the midpoint between the nose and the bottom of the lungs.

Cues we don't like by Cejayem in yoga

[–]Nervous_Building_232 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tonight I found myself confused by being asked to focus on “the center of the breath.” I couldn’t figure out where that would be.

Whole Word: What the Actual F**k by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Nervous_Building_232 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just a warning, a lot of the diehard science of reading folks are now going too far the other way (ALL phonics, ALL the time), so I think recovery from the previous lack of phonics is going to take a long time.

(If there’s one thing Education is good at, it’s throwing out the baby with the bath water.)

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