That’s not shocking.
They’re called “parents”.
I’m really proud of my two girls and one boy, all in their early 30s. There is nothing they won’t tackle around their houses. The oldest is remodeling her kitchen, leveling floors, doing plumbing work. The middle one tackled a lot of landscape rejuvenation. The youngest started work recently for a home remodeling contractor and is loving the work they are doing (high-end bathrooms and kitchens). They are all financially savvy, too.
I was just talking about this with a friend. Colleges should offer a once a week life skills course. Focus on different things the average person need to know. Change a tire, use of basic tools, plant seeds, how interest works, saving for their own future, cook basic things. Then offer more advanced lessons. And it should be a free course.
I have read some young Americans don’t purchase dry breakfast cereal once they live on their own, because they don’t want to have to wash the dishes once done.
Instead, Hot Pockets in the microwave takes care of all their morning meal needs. I don’t know how true this opinion is.
Other than kids I know raised on ranches, all moronials I know cannot fix cars...or anything, drive clutches, manage money, cannot cook, do not have even the most basic level of common sense, and are shockingly ignorant of history, or other basic facts that the average 6th grader would have known 50 years ago. But they all think they are PHDs in everything with their condescending smugness
Well the Rats don’t want young, independent adults.
The Rats want dependents.
The Country has a nasty Rat infestation.
It used to be called Home Economics. Then it morphed into microeconomics.
It’s been pushed out of the modern curriculum in favor of such political indoctrination courses as gender studies and sociology.
I taught my four kids how to work a job. Be on time, be the “go to guy”, volunteer for the hard work, be loyal, don’t gripe too much. My youngest son was working as a parking valet in college. When they tried to put him on a schedule that conflicted with school, he went to the boss to talk about it. She said if he couldn’t work their schedule, they’d find someone who could. He said “Look-I show up on time reliably for every shift, I have a perfect driving record, and pass all of my UA’s.” She changed his work schedule.
College grads who leave school without life skills are more willing to rely on the government.
Education is what YOU learn, not what someone teaches you.
Why does anyone need to be taught life skills?
Aren’t those things you tend to learn on your own as you go through life?
Then again, these very same people are the ones that have 339 Apps on their smartphones that can turn on their coffee makers and tell them if the milk is bad. If it doesn’t involve a keyboard, these folks are lost.
Folks talk about China and Russia, Lithuania’s army will be able to steamroll through this country in a few years if things keep going the way they are.
Good Lord
You’re not going to learn a lot of “life skills” by sitting around on your ass all day and night playing video games.
Colleges turning out ignorant dependent graduates who are unable to think for themselves. This exactly what the colleges wanted to do.
Life skills are the job of the parents.
Life skills involve values. I don’t want the public schools imparting their nasty values on kids.
“Participation Trophies” come home to roost.
What?
You mean limitless self esteem and conviction that the world revolves around you are not enough?
Public schools did away with Home Economics in the late seventies. Part of the dumbing down of America.
Creating an adult who has the intellectual maturity and knowledge of a fourteen year old and the emotional maturity of an 8 year old benefits freedom restricting, criminal, tyrannical governments.
Our parents made sure we kids could do all the basics - cook, clean, sew, use tools, swim, give first aid, do budgets, shoot, etc. We also had to learn basic philosophy, a language, and art appreciation. They encouraged us to learn a skill independent of our careers, and to live in a foreign country for at least a year.
My parents were lower middle class, but almost all of those things were cheap to learn, and have kept all four of us in good stead throughout our lives, although I do wish I had taken the time to learn to dance more than the waltz and polka, and play my grandfather’s viola.
A lot of the kids around me can’t even read or do math, much less take care of themselves. There are a few stars, but too many aspiring rap artists.
These coddled kids need to reach out and learn those skills themselves. It has never been easier than it is via the Internet today.
Unfortunately, the Internet has also contributed to their having the attention spans of gnats, so however easy it is it is still a major challenge to them.