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.
What could be a more basic stop on the road to adulthood?
Hi.
Help me here...
A few writers have stated what I’m going to post. Heinlein, for one. Can’t remember the others.
Be advised all you liberals, democrats and city dwellers...
1. Learn how to swim.
2. Learn how to make a fire (w/o a lighter).
3. Learn how to build a shelter.
4. Learn how to fish, crab and clam.
5. Learn how to hunt (no matter the method).
6. Learn how to field dress, butcher and cook your kill.
That right there is a good start. How is that taught to all males by the age of 10?
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Where do they think the fish they eat come from?
Gut fish? Oh that is sooooo lame!
He should have taught them to gut a deer, now that is something they need to know!
Well, if you have to ask.....
Hopefully he already taught his daughter how to pitch a baseball so she can pitch the fish heads at her mother.
Why oh why would you put anything up to the WWW?
he’s now asking strangers on the internet if it was wrong to do. Why even ask anyone for “permission”? much less on the internet. Teach your kids everything you can because time is short. They grow up fast and then they are gone.
My daughter could gut a fish by the time she was 12. When she was in college, she taught a couple of her friends how to clean crappie. The other girls were heading toward a career in medicine. They loved it. And the fish were tasty.
Changing a tire is good for all kids and adults to learn. But gutting a fish if she didn’t want to is unnecessary. When will she ever be in the position to have to gut a fish? He watches too many movies.
What’s wrong are these people that go to REDDIT to get personal validation so they can be ‘right’.
Second only to that are the news media trying to ‘make a story’ from this emotional support crutch - what, a made-up poll wasn’t good enough today?
Do the right thing, and who gives a rats azz what others think.
We have a society on the way to terminal crash. The survivors will be those with real life skills.
The casualties will be those who only learned to be totally dependent on the government.
He is A-hole for posting it all over the internet.
She coulda helped mommy toss a salad.
The proper way to clean a fish is to get a beer in a bottle remove the cap, take a slug of beer, and use the cap to hold the fish down with one finger while you skin it with the other hand, screw that scaling BS... OR gut it, keep the head on, ram a stick down the gullet and roast it like a marshmallow. Pick at it... I call that good eatin’ right there.
I’ve never needed to gut a fish, and we never taught any of our four daughters to gut one either.
Yes, he was wrong. IF she had expressed interest in learning, then it would have been appropriate.
Gutting a fish is a lot easier than gutting a warm mammal.
Do these kids not get biology in school any more?
reading between the lines, this guy is a controlling arrogant idiot......