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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does the school need to teach it?
Why can't life skills be taught at home?
[b]An 18  year old not knowing how to cook or basic life skills getting married or not is a parenting fail in my book.[/b][/quote]

This.  [b]My parents made sure I knew how to do basic stuff--how to do laundry, how to make at least a few easy meals from scratch, how to follow a simple recipe, how to sew on a button or fix a hem, how to clean, how to change a tire, how to perform minor household repairs, how to balance a checkbook, etc.  This is not a school's job.  These are the kinds of things that a kid should be required to do as they are growing up, both to contribute to the household and to be prepared to manage things when they are not living at home.   
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All of this.  Our kids are way too young still for most of these things, but we have a list much like this one of the things they'll need to learn to do growing up in our family.  Between my husband and I, we have all these skills and then some, and it's completely on us to pass them on to our kids.  Our almost four year old is already responsible for putting her dirty clothes in her hamper, getting dressed, taking her dishes to the sink after meals, etc.  Putting this stuff on schools is absurd, IMO.  If an 18 year old can't do laundry, that's his/her parents' fault for not expecting them to do it and showing them how.  Seriously?[/quote]

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