Posted on 06/08/2023 10:31:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A father forced his grossed-out young daughter to gut a fish he bought at the store to teach her a “life skill” — and he’s now asking strangers on the internet if it was wrong to do so after his wife grew angry at him.
The 38-year-old dad of two girls, 13 and 10, posted in the popular Reddit group “Am I the A–hole” to ask that exact question after teaching his older daughter to debone and descale a fish against her will.
Fair_Moose_4755 explained that he and his wife have been teaching their girls a variety of “life skills such as cooking, cleaning and car maintenance” and recently the family went on a camping trip. His oldest daughter learned to make the fire, pitch the tent and go fishing, he wrote.
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Grown women get grossed out by gutting a fish, stepping on a spider, etc. It is never too early to start them on their journey to being a responsible adult.
LOL! I have male relatives who threw up when they had to change a baby’s diaper, or were grossed-out helping to care for an invalid relative.
Many men have never finished the journey to ‘responsible adulthood’.
Yeah, because someone paid you to do it.
The Father and daughter can negotiate a payment for learning how to gut a fish.
The daughter would settle on some dollar number, and she would also gain essential life time negotiating skills.
Fish gutting skills?
She will probably never use them again.
What the father did wrong is ask the interweb retards for advice.
So pull up your socks and deal.
As was explained to me when I was a couple years younger then she is, I could either be a contributing member of the family or a dependent.
Being a dependent is not much fun.
With what is coming then this is a skill that could save lives.
I used to go fishing in the Pacific Ocean. When we brought home fish to gut, we made the cat happy. She feasted on the fish guts.
I had to bait my own hooks with live worms at 8 years old or eat P & J.
In the future: gut a fish or eat bugs.
FTA: His oldest daughter learned to make the fire, pitch the tent and go fishing, he wrote.
Oh, I love that.
I always had to stand on the porch holding the rabbits and squirrels rear feet while Dad, who was on the ground, did the skinning and gutting.
Probably started doing it when I was only 5 or 6, but I still remember how to do it if need be.
We also took part in slaughtering hogs and steers, and killing and cleaning chickens on our grandparents farm.
It never occurred to us girls to object.
Not at all. Your food does not originate in the grocery store. It comes from somewhere. Its best if you learn where and learn life skills like how to gut a fish. You might need to sometime....or maybe you might just want to get away from eating ultra processed everything.
This is a bad trend. Asking strangers for advice on the interweb. It will all be contradictory and thereby worthless. Too bad Ann Landers is dead.
Because it is a good thing to do.
I would say 90% percent of children say No to a new experience when asked.
The large majority do not have a problem once they are done.
Telling your kids to do something they don’t want to. Sets a good life lesson.
Of sometimes one has to do, what one has to do.
I would have a hard time with a rabbit or squirrel, a fish wouldn’t disgust me I could gut a fish!! I think it is all about where you are raised and the life you experience when you are young!! For me anything with fur would be tough!!
What could be a more basic stop on the road to adulthood?
My father showed us how to clean a fish. Never made us do it.
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