YESSS! Use stain! Finish your wood!!!

Fucking put shellac or paint on it idc just don't leave raw wood exposed, what are you a caveman!?

Why do you think we have tons of old finished wood objects still around even thousands of years later and almost no unfinished wood objects?

I know you didn't ask me, but I have a little experience, so I'll answer:

A well-run Montessori classroom is great for most kids. A poorly-run Montessori classroom is a nightmare. So much of a child's experience is a direct result of how good their guide (teacher) is at their job, because there are so many more moving pieces in a Montessori classroom compared to a traditional classroom. But in my direct experience, teenagers who have had a decent Montessori education have noticeably better executive function, interpersonal skills, and resilience than teenagers who went to a traditional school.

I don't have kids and didn't personally attend a Montessori school, but had several friends who had really good experiences with Montessori education.

I think that Dr Montessori had a particularly great understanding of how to educate and empower babies in the zero to about 3 year range. Tactile, natural materials like wood are genuinely really good for kids to interact with.

A lot of people assume it's way too early to start teaching kids things before they're a year old, but before my mom's mental health issues got really bad, she was very very laser focused on educating me. My parents started me on Hooked on Phonics (yes I'm old) very very early and I could read picture books aloud like The Snowy Day, Madeline and Frog and Toad books by around the 18 month mark, which is typically a developmental milestone for kids around 5 or so.

I think its more to support the ideological rise of fascism -> colors and ornaments are decedent, messy, dirty, sexual, tacky, intellectual inferior and childish to be associated with the “subhumans”, while beige and “clean” colors are associated with “man’s triumph of his base instincts” aka western stoic, class/old money, prudent, refined, controlled and mature.

People keep suggesting this theory, but how would it actually increase real estate value? It's still got an interior layout that you'll have to completely gut for it to be anything other than a McDonald's and the exterior is something you'd still be required to change in that case as well since that's McDonald's' legally protected styling. It doesn't actually help resale value any more than painting your whole house greige because the realtor said it'll tooooootally get you an extra 30 or maybe 40 grand!

This theory also doesn't explain how genuinely customer-hostile newer interior layouts are, because no other business could possibly find a use for this shit.

Convergent evolution.

supposedly it helps stimulate brain development.

We don't need brain development, we have AI!