[Skooz]

BFL

[WayneS]

10 Essential Life Skills to Pass on to Your Kids (And You Should Have these Skills Yourself)

Well, duh. It's kind of hard to pass something on when you don't have it yourself..

[farming pharmer]

BKMK for later read.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Critical Thinking Skills is a BIG one. They are SORELY missing in this younger generation IMO. They appear to swallow whatever propaganda gets shoved at them through their iPhones hook, line and sinker.

[PIF]

How to read

[Fresh Wind]

Building a computer today is basically just the process of gathering a group of building blocks and connecting the cables. It involves very little understanding of what is actually happening inside.

[freefdny]

Reverse the order put reverence for God first. The rest will fall in place.

[minnesota_bound]

#11 Women be crazy

[dfwgator]

In other words, get them into the Boy Scouts, in spite of some of the recent changes to the organization.

[Track9]

They left out how to fix your bike and shoot a rifle.

[Atticus]

I would like to see the liberal version of this list, e.g.:

1. Learn Spanish

2. Vegan cooking

Feel fee to add your own.

[subterfuge]

Only “single motherhood” is “on the rise?”

Maybe the single mothers are killing the fathers?

[semaj]

Pretty good list. Teaching someone who has no technical experience or understanding, how to build a computer? Good luck with that.

[rlmorel]

Well. The posted PJMedia article is quite practical and all, but about as interesting and sterile as a cardboard box with a jigsaw puzzle inside of it at Christmas.

But you know the difference between the posted article and the article it referenced at Fathers are no longer teaching their children basic life skills like making a catapult, repairing a bike puncture and skimming a stone.

Here is the list:

Contrasted with:

Time Management
Basic parenting, not something to "pass down to kids".

Basic Outdoor Skills
Not everyone needs to know how to build a computer.

How to Build, Not Just Use a Computer
Not everyone needs to know how to build a computer. And they sure don't need lessons on how to use them.

Home Repair and Maintenance
If you learn how to build a tree house, you learn this stuff. But you also have a fort, and can have fun. Stripping wallpaper or paint isn't fun.

Auto Repair and Maintenance
Maintenance is fine, oil change, etc. Not everyone can or needs to know how to repair a car.

Financial Management
This would be basic parenting, not things to pass down.

Basic Medical Knowledge
Yeah. We used to get this in the Boy Scouts before they became homosexualized.

Research Methodology
Research Methodology as something to "pass down to kids? Give me a break.

Critical Thinking Skills
Again, isn't this just basic parenting?

Reverence for God
This would be a good one.

The difference is that this utilitarian list has absolutely zero, nada, zilch about using your imagination. Good God, why don't we skip Kindergarten, Grade School, Middle School, and High School and send them directly to college to get an MBA?

Why don't we let kids go out in a field at night and look at stars, catch tadpoles, and so on.

What is it where kids have to be little adults and not kids? It seems like every kid has to have their time filled with organized activities. I hate seeing it. I wouldn't want to grow up today as a kid. As a boy, I would likely be a prisoner of video games...I am just glad they didn't have them, because I sure as hell would have been.

[Leep]

#12 Don’t trust white people.
Even if you are white!

[Bonemaker]

“The list, topped off with “building a tree house” and “making a catapult,”

Those and all the other skills are probably illegal in England now...especially the catapult!

[Leep]

13 Submit to Islam infidel!

[9YearLurker]

Home, auto and medical can be researched on the fly with research skills.

But the others are great.

[upchuck]

IMHO, the last two are the most important and useful to a productive and satisfying life:

Critical Thinking Skills.

Reverence for God.

[The Great RJ]

Not only critical thinking, but common sense as well. The same teenagers who would lecture us on gun control as pawns of the far left are also the idiots sticking condoms in their noses and holding laundry detergent pods in their mouths. Common sense would tell you that defacing your body with multiple piercings and gaudy tattoos and dying your hair fluorescent colors is not cool, makes you look like an idiot and unlikely to get hired in any professional job regardless of how smart you are. Ditto for wearing jeans with holes ripped in them or your pants hanging down on your thighs