My house was pretty poor... but that actually taught me pretty good money skills to a certain degree....  
You don’t buy stuff on impulse- you always have a plan for what you need.
You research the best prices and try to buy in bulk when possible.
You try to have as much savings as possible for a rainy day.
Don’t throw…

Well... at least the prices are pretty similar?
For the most standard looking lab coat for a man and woman they’re both $29.98 with some more or less than that cost. So even though their product description is sexist at least their pricing isn’t for once.

At the school I taught in there wasn’t segregation on color necessarily... but by language. The black and white English speaking students had one class per grade, and the Spanish speaking students had 2 classes per grade till third grade. (There were only 5 white kids in the entire school... so it was mostly 75%…

When I was in high school world history class we got to the “Middle Eastern” section of our history book and everyone pretty interested to learn this considering it was just a few years after 9/11 and it was constantly in the news, but we had never been taught anything about the middle east.

For the first lesson the…

I’m going to be honest.... almost every time my grandparents call my brain instantly assumes my mom or siblings are dead and I take a deep breath before answering.

It really doesn’t help that last year the day after my dad died very suddenly I got a call from them saying my Step Father was hospitalized for the exact…

I don’t know about being a bad driver.... but there’s two driving things I can’t stand that are really not good driving habits.
1. While driving I like to give a lot of space between me and the person in front of me- I’ve had bad experiences with people slamming on their breaks. I stay at the same speed as the person…

I remember in high school I had a history teacher from Alabama who was talking to us about modern day racism in the south and how people still celebrate the Civil War like they were the winners. She told us that when she was interviewed for her teaching job in PA one of the main topics they spent the most time on was…

My Christian middle school had a library about the size of my small walk in closet (it was the art and music class that had to share an old tiny trailer). Because it was Pre-K through 8th grade all the books were for young children or as you mentioned where bible related books... during my entire 3 years at that…

Finally one anxiety problem I don’t have to put up with!!!!

Thanks! I’ve never even heard of brining before and had to look it up on wikipedia! I found a few simple recipes for chicken with directions so I’ll definitely try it the next time I make chicken.

As for the meat thermometer... I really don’t know what to do.
Even for dinner tonight the one I used only stated 88F for…

I must have lucked out as a kid and never ingested any dangerous bread mold.

My mom had a habit of always leaving our bread bag right by the coffee pot where the heat would cause excess moisture to build up and encourage mold growth even if the bread was only a few days old. I often times as a kid didn’t realize I had…

“If you get sick, you didn’t cook it long enough. Try again.”

Haha- Well I may have given my boyfriend food poisoning once or twice... I don’t think he’d appreciate having to go through that again (My stomach is made of harder stuff I guess?)... with the chicken I have baked it in the oven (roasted?) probably over a…

How do I know what meat to buy?
I basically haven’t eaten meat most of my life... but as an adult I want to introduce it into my diet for myself and my boyfriend... but I take one step into the meat aisle and I don’t know whats good and whats bad and what are good prices and how I’m supposed to cook half of it. Or I…

I think it depends on what you’re reading.

For general reading I tend to think in images... I don’t really even think of the words or what they sound like. Even for words like THE- I don’t say the word phonetically in my head... I just see the picture of the world THE in my head and establish its meaning. Oddly…

I remember when I was 6 my poppop was babysitting me and needed to stop by the Wawa for 5 minutes to get milk and a few items. I begged to stay in the car and he shrugged and locked the car, but kept the keys in the engine with the AC on since it was summer.

Out of nowhere after a few minutes on my own my mom knocked…

I was a TA in an elementary school and I absolutely believe this is wrong to have arrested this boy- but I also understand what it is like to be attacked regularly by students.

My school had many kids that needed extra help.... counseling... more one on one attention. No one was saying these kids were bad or stupid-…

“Sharing the role of disciplining your kids and how you can support each other when the other is enforcing rules.”

I’m not a mother, but as an adult I watched my mother remarry and have 3 more kids and I feel this is really important. When me and my brother were growing up she was a single mother and played all the…

Historically speaking booze was often considered “medication.”
Of course in most of those cultures it was also used for recreational purposes as well, but in some strict protestant communities where the use of alcohol was considered sinful, one of the only legitimate uses of it were as a medication. I feel like the…

I had noticed the new naming to Autism Acceptance and I think that is a wonderful new vision for it- and I hope one day it becomes more than just words and wishful thinking. As an adult I am shocked how often I meet someone who has an autistic family member and realize that we’re not alone... that there are other…

My younger brother is autistic.
He’s basically the smartest and most creative kid I’ve ever met... ever since he was a baby he just shined.
I worry so much about him because even though we accept who he is fully and love him through the good days and the bad... the world doesn’t and I have little hope the world will…