Posted on 07/25/2021 1:51:37 PM PDT by rktman
Remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was amazed by a garbage disposal and the idea that you can grow food in the ground? Many of us tittered and guffawed. As it turns out, she is not an anomaly. According to a poll from SWNS digital, 81% of college grads wish they had been taught more life skills before graduation. Instead, they learned the importance of pronouns and social justice activism. It seems that many students leave a college clueless about budgeting and what to do when you can’t afford DoorDash.
The learned helplessness churned out from our universities seems intentional. College grads who leave school without life skills are more willing to rely on the government. According to the poll:
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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.
Good parenting shows.
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.
Congratulations! Good job!
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.
Should be offered at the K12 level and required for HS graduation.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Who purchased dry cereal in college? When I was in college if I purchased cereal, it was liquid, carbonated and in a can or bottle - beer !
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
While my kids were in the house we taught them the following:
How to change a tire
How to cook and shop at the grocery store. (never go shopping hungry)
How to take care of a wound. They treat their own wounds.
How to grow their own vegetables.
Basic land navigation.
How to balance a checkbook.
A lot of times, we asked them “how do you think this problems can be solved” instead of doing it for them.
Both are very self sufficient now. That was my goal. Both of my parents were dead by the time I was 30, so I have a sense of urgency to teach them as much as I can while I have time and they will listen.
It used to be called HomeEC and Shop. All taken in high school or taught to you by your mother and father. The feminists decided that it was derogatory for girls to take HomeEc even though girls loved it and thought it to be fun. Boys that I know loved their shop classes and teachers.
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.
Beer with/for breakfast? Well, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, right?
During my freshman and Soph years, I was in a dorm. My first place to live outside the family home.
Every so often, my parents would swoop down and ‘visit’.
It was actually like a white glove inspection, to see if I had all the things they felt made a ‘proper’ home.
During those two years, I was always certain to have the Kellogg’s Variety Pack of little cereal boxes in plain sight on top of the fridge. It seemed to put them at ease.
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
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