For fun: What life skills do your teenagers lack?

[Anonymous]

This is a judgment free zone! Just for the entertainment value, please tell me what basic knowledge or skill your teenager did not know or couldn’t do! I’ll start...

My daughter didn’t get a solid understanding of how to address an envelope until she did her graduation announcements.


My other daughter just got her first job. She had to call work and got a busy signal...

DD: “I think I did something wrong. It just keeps keeping this weird buzzy noise”

Me “That’s a busy signal. It means they are already on the phone. So your call can’t go through.”

DD “Oooh. Ok.”
*sits there listening to it*

Me “You have to just try again later. It won’t just start ringing when they hang up.”

DD “oh. Ok. Wait...hang what up?”

[Anonymous]

those are good ones OP.

[Anonymous]

16 year old cannot to save her life get a dish clean. I honestly don't know what she does.

[Anonymous]

15 and 17. They do laundry. Can sort of/ survival cook.

But writing an email in a semi-professional circumstance? I have to walk them through it.

[Anonymous]

Mine have an unreasonable amount of trouble reading a grown up's handwriting. Card from Grandma--hey mom, what does this say?

[Anonymous]

We were in an Uber. The car door had a hand crank to roll down the window. "Hey, mom, what does this thing do?"

They somehow put the dishes in the dishwasher so they don't get clean. They've been putting dishes in the dishwasher for years. Yet, unless I'm watching them, they put them in just all types of wrong. We have a good dishwasher that can pretty much clean anything. They manage to defeat it.

They can't squeeze toothpaste into the roll.

[Anonymous]

Hang pants on a hanger properly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15 and 17. They do laundry. Can sort of/ survival cook.

But writing an email in a semi-professional circumstance? I have to walk them through it.

OMG. Same. Every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine have an unreasonable amount of trouble reading a grown up's handwriting. Card from Grandma--hey mom, what does this say?

Same with mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

They can't squeeze toothpaste into the roll.

In their defense, squeezing toothpaste INTO the roll (?) isn't easy!

[Anonymous]

So much for my ADHD child. Namely organization and awareness. Organization is a must in life, and awareness is a must for important things like driving. Both worry me a lot.

[Anonymous]

Can't problem solve

[Anonymous]

My teen has ADHD and his problem is planning ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine have an unreasonable amount of trouble reading a grown up's handwriting. Card from Grandma--hey mom, what does this say?

Same with mine.

+1

Mine can't read cursive

[Anonymous]

Logistcs.
If we have ABC planned after school, Dd doesn't consider time needed for drive time, traffic, eating, showering, picking up siblings/in tow, and other things that need to be taken into account.