Posted on 04/20/2019 8:41:08 AM PDT by rickmichaels
How-to videos don't work for everything, that's for sure. :-)
But, watching how-to videos is a perfectly fine way for them to learn about these little things - such as opening a can of paint.
I myself have fixed things around the house several times just by watching how-to videos on YouTube.
Many have never lifted a car hood, changed a tire etc.....
All they think of is “ On Star” or road service as their first response...
Sad.
My millennial son is pretty handy, fortunately. He’s quite a good machinist and welder. He’s also good with computers and can do pretty well with various car repairs. He did quite well in high school wood shop. I’m lucky.
Oh, and he’s been driving a stick shift for years. :)
might put paint in places you didn’t want paint
LOL. Years ago a friend of my Dad’s had a beat up rusted out Plymouth Valiant, Slant 6 and 3 on the tree that he was planning on getting rid of. He parked it at the Green Acres Shopping Plaza on Long Island, at that time it was considered the car theft capital of the world. Sure enough someone tried to make off with it. It just so happened that one of Nassau County’s finest was patrolling the parking lot and noticed how the would-be thief kept stalling it out because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift and got busted.
Professor YouTube has clarified and refreshed me on many things.
A manual transmission saved one girl’s life in a carjacking a few years ago.
The hoods couldn’t drive the car.
She coasted to a low speed and bailed out.
“How many of their parents took the time to teach them?”
My wife stopped working as a paid RN when our first child was born.
12 years later, she started working again. The first thing she taught them was how to do their laundry and told them that they were responsible for their clean clothes from now on.
The first week, their clothes were all over the floors of their bed rooms. When Monday came, they were aghast that they had no clean clothes. They wore their dirty clothes to school and came home and did their laundry. 40 years later they still do their laundry.
Once a week each son were responsible for a dinner. They either used what was available. Or they rode their bikes down to a great family grocery store and bought food for dinner. They had a limit of $12 of groceries, they put in their backpack and came home. We had a charge at the store.
The son, who prepared dinner didn’t have to cleanup, the other one did. My wife and I have had the same rule for over 50 years.
Saturday morning was a holiday for my wife. She went walking or shopping with friends or by herself.
The guys and I did yard work. We mowed grass, raked, trimmed and blew the crud off our driveway and sidewalks. Sometimes we opened paint cans to touch up or repaints something.
If they did a good job, they got to go out for lunch. We rotated the lunch places to their favs. Sometimes we met my wife/their mom for lunch.
They both liked to fish, and they learned how to tie knots, bait their hooks, cast, hook the fish and bring them in. Then clean them and bring them home. They proudly cooked the dinners they caught.
One son became an excellent hunter. He was taught, if you killed it, you dressed it. His Mother added one more task.
You need to know how to cook it. She got him a book she had given me, “Going Wild in the Kitchen”. He now has his own library of dressing wild game and cooking it. His kids, both hunters, are like him.
Big game is gutted/bleed and taken to a meat market to be made into steaks, roasts, burger meat and soup bones.
Our parents/grand parents loved us enough to show us how to prepare food, and we passed on that to our kids and grand kids.
It takes time and love teach kids what to do in life.
How is that not teaching?
Don’t forget to idle your engine before shutting down. Turbo’s are prone to “after cook”
Kimmel, et al love to mock the stupidity of Americans, as if they haven’t played a major role in creating such a dumbed down populace. What’s Kimmel going to do next, moan about the awful state of education in US public schools? Pretty good gig, make the problem, then complain about it as if you have a solution or weren’t the cause of it to begin with. Democrats in a nutshell, make a mess, charge in to “fix” it, wash rinse and repeat.
Remember in Breaking Bad, the guy inserting Walter’s chemo IV said he saw how on YouTube?
How many urban yutes even know who their dad is, and have ever seen him/them, let alone ever watched them do something useful?
Thanks LBJ.
Flat head screwdriver to pry open. Place a rag on top of the lid and tap the sides of the lid with a hammer or mallet to close it.
Dutch Boy even has easy to screw on and off containers these days.
That is the problem. Parents were dumb and lazy. What few life skills the parents learned were never used with their kids. Ask millineals to cook something from basic ingredients - dumb stairs also. Not all just most. It’s their damn parents fault. All of it.
It’s not a matter of teaching the kiddos to open a can of paint. It’s a question of whether they have done anything of such basic utility as paint at any point in their lives.
It would be an idiotic parent of a Millennial who can’t manage that.
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