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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just shaking my head.  She's 18 and I love her dearly.  Her finance is 18 also and is a nice man.  I'm happy that they have found each other and wish them a successful marriage and a life time  of happiness.  As far as I know, she is not pregnant.  Now for my head shaking.....

She does not how to cook.  She doesn't understand that you can throw biodegradable food away in the bedroom trashcan because it doesn't get emptied enough.  She does know how to work the laundry machine but she doesn't know how to sew a button.  She doesn't understand budgeting and finances and due dates for bills.  Now, she can set up the blue ray player, you tube, and netflix much faster than I can.

It made me realize that our schools are doing a great job of preparing college bound kids and STEM kids but for they no longer offer the traditional home ec skills.

How is she going to manage of household?  Yes, I know she will learn.  We all do.  She only recently moved in with us so I haven't had an opportunity to teach her all of the daily life management skills that she is going to need.  It dawned on me this morning that I really have a lot of work ahead of me in the next few months.[/quote]

OP, I'm sympathetic.  I worked my way through school and then law school, then was a professional for a long time.  It really hit me when I became a mom.  The cooking is the hardest.  You can figure out laundry, or one lesson will help.  But the cooking…I'm 50 now with a couple of tween/teens and I still struggle with it.  When I cook, I need to concentrate--it's like a teenager learning to drive, all frontal-lobe activity.  And the buying in advance, and storing, and not having things go bad because you bought too much…concentrate on cooking, OP

And tell her about the lint catcher in the dryer.  Some people never learn about that and just let it accumulate.[/quote]

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