Are “boy moms” really not teaching their sons any life skills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why being able to make a decent meal is such a thing these days. We've only been doing this for 300,000 years. If your college aged kids can't make a good meal, you failed. That's both for boys and girls.

There is a lot of culture that goes into food. It's what creates communities. Teach your kids how to cook. Every 18 year old should know how to make a basic omelette. Very cheap. Pretty simple. It's not rocket science.

And if they can't, that just bad parenting or laziness. Would judge accordingly if a 20-something can't do the basics.

We don't eat eggs, so no point in learning how to make an omelette. But what everyone needs to learn is how to buy/get food economically and use it before it goes bad. The real crime is all the people who buy food and throw it out because it has rotted before it could be used.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

Eye doctor, annual physical, vaccines, dentist, dermatologist. Those are pretty basic ones for a healthy young adult.

You don't need a lot of vaccines past 18. And, eye doctor is once a year, dentist twice, dermatologist varies but not noromal and one physical. This is silly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why being able to make a decent meal is such a thing these days. We've only been doing this for 300,000 years. If your college aged kids can't make a good meal, you failed. That's both for boys and girls.

There is a lot of culture that goes into food. It's what creates communities. Teach your kids how to cook. Every 18 year old should know how to make a basic omelette. Very cheap. Pretty simple. It's not rocket science.

And if they can't, that just bad parenting or laziness. Would judge accordingly if a 20-something can't do the basics.

We don't eat eggs, so no point in learning how to make an omelette. But what everyone needs to learn is how to buy/get food economically and use it before it goes bad. The real crime is all the people who buy food and throw it out because it has rotted before it could be used.

You should still know how to cook eggs. I am a vegetarian and have been for 30+ years but I still know how to cook meat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why being able to make a decent meal is such a thing these days. We've only been doing this for 300,000 years. If your college aged kids can't make a good meal, you failed. That's both for boys and girls.

There is a lot of culture that goes into food. It's what creates communities. Teach your kids how to cook. Every 18 year old should know how to make a basic omelette. Very cheap. Pretty simple. It's not rocket science.

And if they can't, that just bad parenting or laziness. Would judge accordingly if a 20-something can't do the basics.

We don't eat eggs, so no point in learning how to make an omelette. But what everyone needs to learn is how to buy/get food economically and use it before it goes bad. The real crime is all the people who buy food and throw it out because it has rotted before it could be used.

+1. This, and how to buy and make food that is healthy, so you don't need to go on GLPs later in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

I have a chronic illness and have a lot but this is made up boy hate.

[Anonymous]

If boys cannot do this stuff, its the mom's who failed to teach them...girls who then became woman and mom's...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

Eye doctor, annual physical, vaccines, dentist, dermatologist. Those are pretty basic ones for a healthy young adult.

Not true. Mine has been done with appointments since age 17 and has no need to go. I didn't go again until age 30 and thaat was because of pregnancy.
How sick are you people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boys cannot do this stuff, its the mom's who failed to teach them...girls who then became woman and mom's...

How misogynistic. None of these boys have fathers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This goes for fathers too, of course but the trend seems to fall on mothers.

Why is my 20-year-old DD telling me about her male friends who can’t cook, clean, book their own doctors appointments or have any basic life skills? This isn’t all boys, but the majority.

DD was briefly dating a boy last summer and met his mother who made a comment to her like, “oh yeah, now my son won’t just eat fast food all the time now that he has you.”

Are we teaching boys to depend on their girlfriends and future wives? I only have one kid, but I certainly taught her to never depend on any potential partner for anything other than companionship.

A few do but, ime, most do not. And the parents make excuses for them that come straight from the manosphere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This goes for fathers too, of course but the trend seems to fall on mothers.

Why is my 20-year-old DD telling me about her male friends who can’t cook, clean, book their own doctors appointments or have any basic life skills? This isn’t all boys, but the majority.

DD was briefly dating a boy last summer and met his mother who made a comment to her like, “oh yeah, now my son won’t just eat fast food all the time now that he has you.”

Are we teaching boys to depend on their girlfriends and future wives? I only have one kid, but I certainly taught her to never depend on any potential partner for anything other than companionship.

THe girls in their 20s I know are more helpless than the boys I know that age.

Now who's generalizing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If boys cannot do this stuff, its the mom's who failed to teach them...girls who then became woman and mom's...

Why are the moms always blamed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This goes for fathers too, of course but the trend seems to fall on mothers.

Why is my 20-year-old DD telling me about her male friends who can’t cook, clean, book their own doctors appointments or have any basic life skills? This isn’t all boys, but the majority.

DD was briefly dating a boy last summer and met his mother who made a comment to her like, “oh yeah, now my son won’t just eat fast food all the time now that he has you.”

Are we teaching boys to depend on their girlfriends and future wives? I only have one kid, but I certainly taught her to never depend on any potential partner for anything other than companionship.

Yikes, stay single and live with mature friends

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If boys cannot do this stuff, its the mom's who failed to teach them...girls who then became woman and mom's...

How misogynistic. None of these boys have fathers?

You would think but OP was very specific that it's the moms fault. So I guess women are failing at raising children according to OP. Other women are not raising boys worthy of some women's daughters, or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

We have sick visits throughout the school year, my boys ask about when their annual check ups are and they are in ES and MS. They understand that going to the doctor is a normal part of life and them knowing that prepares them to have it as part of their young adult lives. You have to teach them just about everything - we as parents don't always remember how we learned it, so we don't teach it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does a 20yr old boy need to make a lot of dr appointments? It’s probably not his insurance and he is unlikely to have chronic health issues.

Eye doctor, annual physical, vaccines, dentist, dermatologist. Those are pretty basic ones for a healthy young adult.

Not true. Mine has been done with appointments since age 17 and has no need to go. I didn't go again until age 30 and thaat was because of pregnancy.
How sick are you people.

no need to go to the dentist? gross