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When I was young, we were also taught some simple handyman skills like how to fear electricity when using metal tools, how to make some simple shelving and how to dye and polish the wood.
It didn't take long to teach us those basics, but it was enough for all of us to correctly name the most common tools and how to use them safely.
Many kids today don't even know how to use a can opener.
I suspect most kids today couldn't name half the fruit and vegetables at their local supermarket.
Got that right, had a bunch of radishes at checkout, no code on them, the snowflake checking me out asked..."what are these?"
This makes me sad because many of these kids will never know how delicious and simple some home made soup can be.
Pumpkin, potato, onion, curry powder, garlic, ginger, stock and seasoning, simmered for 20 minutes and stab blended smooth with some coconut milk will make a meal more delicious than anything they can buy from a restaurant and take less than five minutes of effort. Serve it with an oven warmed bread roll and a glass of wine: perfection.
Cauliflower, potato, onion, carrot, celery, mustard seeds, cumin, vegetable stock, seasoning, coconut milk: takes 5 minutes to prepare, 20 minutes to simmer and it's mind blowing. Throw some croutons on top, a swirl of coconut milk and fresh coriander and you've got yourself the world's most delicious soup with less effort than it takes to drive to McDonalds at about 1/5th the cost.
Sweet cream of carrot and ginger, cream of mushroom or corn chowder is even easier and less effort.
Mind-blowing Indian meals like shahi paneer or matar paneer can be made with a few more spices and in half the time.
Chili con carne, mushroom stroganoff, creamy mustard mornay, Chinese tofu and broccoli, black bean stir fry and hokkein noodles can all be prepared in less than ten minutes, a little longer if you add meat. Boil some pasta or gnocchi, throw some broccolini in the salted water right at the end and combine it with a home made arrabbiata (takes 2 minutes) and some grated cheese and you'll have perfection with less than a few minutes of effort.
It makes me sad how many people at the supermarkets have shopping carts full of orange junk food and fizzy drink, rather than real food.
It makes me sad how few young people know even the most trivial life skills.
I had the same exact thing happen to me, right down to the radish LMAO. That's hilarious.
LOL - I had the same thing happen with some fresh ginger root in the checkout line. The child at the register had no idea what it was.
No-one is taught how to swing a hammer or read a tape measure. Or read an analog clock, probably.
We had a guy here who graduated from Purdue with a degree in electrical engineering and he didn't know what allen wrenches were.
As a Purdue alumni, this is embarrassing. My husband and I have floated the "learn a trade" balloon w/each of our kids (vs college). As homeowners remodeling/renovating a 70+ year old home, we know the value of masonry professionals, trustworthy general contractors, and craftsmen in various areas. They could name their price, work the schedule they want, and avoid much of today's cancel culture/politics.
my teenage daughter is pretty serious about a guy and he's a worker, smart, but no interest in college. He's going into construction and already has a "helper" job for a GC. So, he's a keeper as far as I'm concerned.
Can contest. My 15 yr old stepdaughter has trouble reading our big analog clock in our kitchen. She didn’t even know how to spell her middle name. She didn’t know how to address and put postage on an envelope at 13, or have her address memorized. I’m fairly certain I knew all that when I was 7. I didn’t know if she’s just like a special person or if this is her generation. She’s smart otherwise, like loves Trump!
If parents don't teach her about these things, how can she be expected to know them? So many like to place the blame on the kids/younger generation and don't address the parenting. This is the consequence of parents who don't involve themselves in their child's learning. They don't call us "the daycare generation" for no reason.
Complaining about the the youngest generation isn't new.
One of our EEs told me a story about a newly graduated EE at a client site who was confused as to how fuses work.
Did you read that article last month about Google's comments about graduates from i think Howard University? Might have been a different school but it was a black school. Anyway, the google people said that overall, none of these kids were prepared to work even an entry level job for them. The top graduate couldn't even pass their coding test.
The cost of grade inflation.
I have a college degree and work for a homebuilder. I do purchasing/cost accounting/finance/etc (small company). Anyway, 50% of my job is dealing with our subcontractors. I'd say at least half of the subs we have are under 40 (at least half of those are under 30) and make a killing running their own businesses as flatworkers/framers/landscapers etc. One kid does nothing but exterior concrete. he's 33 and runs his own business. We hit it off because he's also a subaru freak. Anyway, he has 300k in CARS in his 10 car garage including imported WRX and R32 Skyline. It's insane. Here i am, 10 years older, jealous as fuck about it.
I still have some of the thing I made in shop classes back in the 90s.
I still have the center punch that I made metal works in late 90s.
We were supposed to make metal handled screwdrivers using the lathes, but the teacher quickly changed his mind when he realized how deadly metal handled screwdrivers could be when working on electronics. :-)
I don't have much from my childhood except a single workbook from when I was learning the alphabet. My teacher gave me a frowny-face red-stamp because I turned some of the dots on the letters i and j into stick-figure men, using the dot as the men's head.
My teacher was upset by this and asked me nicely to stop, so I continued doing it from that point on because FUCK YOU! One of my earliest and proudest memories.
My only other early memory was of being punished for not respecting the authority of my teacher. I can barely remember being forced to sit in the corner by myself for hours... which I didn't mind because I'd use that time to fantasize about giant ants killing my teacher. 'Good times. :-)