Posted on 12/15/2018 10:38:11 AM PST by bgill
Seniors in the class of 2019, however, received one-on-ones with people from the community - teaching things like dorm-room cooking, changing a tire, credit cards and financing. It was an event Christy Hardin, director of the BCHS Family Resource & Youth Services Center, organized for the students. “I think that the idea occurred to me originally, I saw a Facebook post that parents passed around saying they needed a class in high school on taxes, and cooking,” Hardin said. “Our kids can get that, but they have to choose it. And (Wednesday) was a day they could pick and choose pieces they didn’t feel like they had gotten so far."
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Yep..but before it rained I was the bad ass of my block.
We learned to change tires in Driver’s education in 1961 Carlsbad, NM.
In Home Economics, girls learned to pay bills and cook. We guys did the same in Family Relations.
Don’t they teach this anymore?
My two sons (now 21 & 23) barely learned anything in Drivers Ed. They were taught how to drive a car ... barely and the rules of the road. That was it.
When I learned how to drive in Drivers Ed, we were taught how to drive properly, the rules of the road, had to learn the grid system around us (the Chicago area is a large "grid" making it easy to know how to get somewhere, especially out here on the SW Side) and a whole lot more. I learned how to "read the road" in front of me to avoid trouble and stay out of accidents and that has served me extremely well all these years.
Today's kids don't even know how to look for the "left on arrow only" or "no turn on red" signs for example. Drivers ed these days is NOTHING like it was back in the mid 70's when I learned how to drive.
My parents were good cooks, and they taught us how to prepare simple breakfasts or dinners. We did a breakfast and a dinner once a week.
Before, we took the DMV driving tests, we had to change tires, once for a front tire and once for a back tire. Our dad kept old rugs on the floor of the car trunks to kneel on. He bought us gloves that fit us and kept a pair in each care.
I have done that for every car we have owned in spite of being long time AAA members. I keep the small emergency batteries to charge our vehicles if needed. My wife’s car needed to emergency charge twice last week with the emergency batteries. She now has a new battery.
My God Father was a banker, and he opened checking accts for us when we were early teenagers. I never bounced a check, came close. A sister did it twice until he charged her for the second bounce.
Our kids learned how to change tires in our driveway.
They had checking accts in high school after they started working.
Our grand kids went to good private schools which had these exercises. The teachers were amazed that as Freshmen in high school they could do all of these adult things because their parents had taught them.
They didn’t even have driver’s ed when I got my license way back in the early 50s.
We survived-—and drove stick shift.
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Crazy as it seems, our grocery store may have 3 different price per lb on their holiday turkeys. Same brand but guess from different shipments. I’m always telling people to go back to look for the cheaper priced birds. Most look at me like I’ve just grown a third eye.
Just this week, there was an unbelievable sale on link sausage. 50 cents for a 12 oz package! I bought two cases. An elderly lady informed me it would rot before I ate it all. Guess she’d never heard of a freezer so it’s not just the millennials who haven’t a clue. Much wiser to buy two cases at 50 cents than drive 20 miles back to the store next week to purchase one more of the same sausage for $4.99 next week and the same the following week, rinse and repeat. She later made a comment about me getting 8 cans of chili, sigh. Thankfully, she didn’t notice the 99 cent big bag of over ripe bananas that we ate on a few days, some went into the dehydrator for banana chips and the rest will become banana bread for Christmas presents.
I’ve noticed a change in buying habits. In years past, people would look for the best buys/unit pricing. Now days, people just throw items in their carts willy nilly never looking at the prices.
The first vehicle I ever drove myself was a farm tractor. Manual shift. IIRC I was 12 or 13.
Did you know that a stick shift is considered a theft deterrent these days because so few people know how to drive them?
“Did you know that a stick shift is considered a theft deterrent these days because so few people know how to drive them? “
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I can believe that——I doubt that my grandkids could drive one.
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I had a roommate whose mother could not cook. Everything was boiled until it was gray and then cooled and eaten. Her mom was born in the 1930's.
Fifty years ago people from small towns generally knew how to cook, maybe not well but they generally know the basics. People from big cities where prepared food is readily available and your kitchen may be nothing more then a gas ring might not.
Since prepared food has spread to most small towns the non-cooking has spread as well. Cold cereal for breakfast, school lunch, take out for dinner. It is not reasonable to expect parents to teach what they might have never learned themselves.
This pathetic generation could never fight any world war.
...people just throw items in their carts willy nilly never looking at the prices....
And then paying for it with a credit card.
One would think they could figure out how to tear open the tuna foil packets.
My cats were confused when they didn’t hear the can opener when their canned food switched to pull tabs.
“One would think they could figure out how to tear open the tuna foil packets.”
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I didn’t even know that it came in packets.
I have GOT to get out more.:-)
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That was before math word problems using checkbooks was deemed racist because little DeShawn couldn't get a bank account.
-PJ
A 50 year old Physics graduaye, in family by marriage,can barely fix himself a peanut butter sandwich.
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Whatever you do, do not tell him there are peanuts in it.
Allergy! Allergy!
“We taught them ourselves as parents are supposed to do.”
Yep. I knew how to do all that by the time I was 10.
My parents believed every child should be taught how to cook, clean, sew, balance finances, work on/repair any type of vehicle or farm implement, raise a garden, slaughter/skin/butcher any type of animal, you name it and we were taught it by our parents by being involved in everyday life.
Heck, I had to teach my first wife how to cook!
A sure sign that marriage was in trouble from the get go.
Stick Shift
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I think that must be some kind of Cultural Appropriation.
I took Typing and Home Ec in high school since I knew the class would be overwhelmingly female.
Boy, did I pick right :)
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