If it’s August, it must be time for us to crowdsource ideas for fixing baseball. It has become a tradition here as the regular season moves into its final months, seeking your email and social media suggestions for changes to improve the game. We skipped over it in 2020 – partly because that early August was closer to the first month of the season than the last, partly because there was a lot more with which to concern ourselves amid a pandemic … and partly because Rob Manfred and the other deep thinkers in the commissioner’s office already had considered the 60-game sprint a made-to-order rules experiment. We never got to banning shifts, but it’s clear the idea was discussed,...
“Why don’t you leave?”, “How can you love someone who treats you this way?”, “You need to stick up for yourself”, “I wouldn’t allow anyone to treat me this way”. Anyone who has experienced any form of domestic abuse will probably have heard these sentences in one form or another. They are usually made by well-intended outsiders who have been fortunate enough and never experienced abuse. Or at least they don’t know that they have. But the truth is, “leaving” is extremely difficult. And that’s all financial or family commitments taken aside. The mental effort of actually leaving an abusive relationship is a lot harder than walking away from a normal relationship that didn’t work out. For me, walking...
5 Ways to Plan for Fun in Your Homeschool Year ~ Written by Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley I don’t know about you, but I am in complete denial that it is August. Summer is my favorite and I mourn its passing every year, but this summer went by in a blink. I’m not ready for autumn and all that comes with it, including homeschool planning. If we’re being honest, I haven’t planned at all. I’ve never entered August without a plan! In a typical year, at this point in the summer, I’ve not only planned for fall but I’ve also written an article outlining our plans for the year. But this hasn’t been a typical year. The past 18 months have been...
As we get ready to head back to school, there are a ton of physics activities that kids can try at home or in the classroom. The books on this list will help students learn more about the world around us and how it works. What are forces? How do they affect you every day? Why is it harder to push a box across the carpet than it is to push it across a smooth floor? How do you bounce so high on a trampoline? These are just a few of the questions that physics can answer. Are you ready to dive in and explore physics? Fairground Physics: Motion, Momentum, and Magnets with Hands-On Science Activities by Angie Smibert and...
You’re reading Move, the nudge we need to get active, however makes us happiest and healthiest. “We’re going to start today’s class in a nice, comfortable seat,” the yoga teacher says, as people around the room effortlessly adopt a cross-legged position. You grunt and shuffle in an attempt to copy, while your knees threaten to touch your ears and a dull ache descends around your hips. It’s not exactly conducive to serenity. Struggling to sit cross-legged can really put you off yoga – even if you can happily adopt most other postures. I say this from experience, because I’ve struggled to tuck one leg neatly under the other since childhood, and it’s only gotten worse as an adult. But, I’m...
