What skills you regret not teaching your kids?

[Anonymous]

I wish I could have taught them the following -

- How to cook our traditional cuisine.
- Our native language
- More about my religion and rituals

[Anonymous]

Hi Mom!!

[Anonymous]

My mom frequently has said she wishes she’d taught me to sew. She is talented. But I remember wanting to learn and getting yelled at so much as a kid for tangled thread. It’s been a good reminder for me as a parent because I also see her viewpoint of me not helping while she was trying to sew.

[Anonymous]

I did teach, but regret that they failed to learn, cursive. They were never allowed to use it in school, so it never became fluid enough for them to use as easily as printing or typing. They don't even have strong signatures in spite of my best efforts to force it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did teach, but regret that they failed to learn, cursive. They were never allowed to use it in school, so it never became fluid enough for them to use as easily as printing or typing. They don't even have strong signatures in spite of my best efforts to force it.

Could be worse. My kids are 15 and 13, given Chromebooks too early in their schooling, and their print is horrible. Cursive is a pipe dream. I would just be happy with legible print.

[Anonymous]

Not allowed cursive??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not allowed cursive??

A lot of teachers these days can’t even read cursive.

[Anonymous]

Solfege

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not allowed cursive??

Yes. It was totally disallowed in some local public schools. Cursive will end up being a socio-economic differentiator among current teens/twenty somethings.

[Anonymous]

I bought in to the "they will learn to tie their shoes at their own pace" messaging and didnt ever force my kids to learn. My 10 year old still can't do it and I wish I had just made 5 year him do it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish I could have taught them the following -

- How to cook our traditional cuisine.
- Our native language
- More about my religion and rituals

Hi Tiger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought in to the "they will learn to tie their shoes at their own pace" messaging and didnt ever force my kids to learn. My 10 year old still can't do it and I wish I had just made 5 year him do it!

What does this mean? How would they ever learn if not expressly taught? I do not understand.

[Anonymous]

Wish I would have cracked down on the class clown showing off behavior sooner. Caused a lot of problems in middle school once kids found it less entertaining and resulted in bullying. So basically how to read a room

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did teach, but regret that they failed to learn, cursive. They were never allowed to use it in school, so it never became fluid enough for them to use as easily as printing or typing. They don't even have strong signatures in spite of my best efforts to force it.

Could be worse. My kids are 15 and 13, given Chromebooks too early in their schooling, and their print is horrible. Cursive is a pipe dream. I would just be happy with legible print.

Cursive went the way of the typewriter. They do still teach it in 3rd grade where we are but it’s quickly forgotten. Cursive is very labor intensive for some people and it’s difficult to read so many people’s cursive writing. No need to pine for the old days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did teach, but regret that they failed to learn, cursive. They were never allowed to use it in school, so it never became fluid enough for them to use as easily as printing or typing. They don't even have strong signatures in spite of my best efforts to force it.

Could be worse. My kids are 15 and 13, given Chromebooks too early in their schooling, and their print is horrible. Cursive is a pipe dream. I would just be happy with legible print.

Cursive went the way of the typewriter. They do still teach it in 3rd grade where we are but it’s quickly forgotten. Cursive is very labor intensive for some people and it’s difficult to read so many people’s cursive writing. No need to pine for the old days.

Np. Cursive is sooo much easier for me than print and I have nice handwriting. But yeah, none of the 20 something teachers can read cursive.