The benefits of bathroom-sharing
March 7, 2008
Does growing up with a shared bathroom give you better life management skills down the line?
I hope not. But that certainly would clear up a few things.
In “Lessons From the Family Bathroom” from The New York Times online, Tara Parker blogs on an essay that dissects the benefits of a shared family bathroom. Parker writes about the essay’s author:
“She sometimes longs for a lower person-to-bathroom ratio, but she has also realized that her shared family bathroom has been the source for teaching important life skills about sharing and time management, among other things.”
So what do you think? Did sharing a bathroom as a kid help you later?
Or were your interpersonal skills forever ruined because you never had to battle for the sink?
And don’t forget to read the full “The Family Bathroom Waltz” by Marie Hartwell-Walker.
JOE BACCHUS, Web Specialist
Sphere: Related ContentBaltimore chef named CNN Hero
February 26, 2008
After seeing coworkers at the Harbor Court Hotel restaurant struggle to hold down a job, Baltimore’s Galen Sampson decided that when he opened his own restaurant, he wanted to create an apprenticeship program for recovering Baltimoreans. And he did just that.
“It gives our people in transition paid jobs,” he told CNN in the first of three videos on the news Web site. “It also allows us to give them hands-on, real-time instruction.”
Galen and his wife, Bridget, now co-own Dogwood Sustainable Foods, which operates the Dogwood Deli in Hampden.
“She has been very active in the community with people in transition from problems in their past, and I became actively involved with her, helping her teach and doing some cooking,” Galen explains in the second video, A Really Good Team. “When I started working with Bridget in the programs that she had in the city, I started to really see it firsthand.”
The program, Chefs in the Making, will provide training and jobs to 30 people in transition this year.
Sampson was a Baltimore Community Fellow through the Open Society Institute in 2006.
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
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