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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of AC nowadays have not been taught domestic skills in entirety. .

Yes, they can sometimes cook.  But, they cannot budget for food, cannot clean up after cooking or eating, don't know how to create a healthy menu with seasonal and local ingredients and certainly don't know how to host.

Similarly, they know how to throw their clothes in the washing machine and dryer.  But, they do not know how to sort their clothes before  laundering, how to iron/fold them, how to put it away in the dresser or closet, how to create a regular laundry regimen, how often to wash their bed linen, pillows, comforters, parkas, etc etc.

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IT's shocking but true.  My oldest found that out when attending college---the number of kids who had no clue about laundry.  Whereas mine had been doing their own laundry since age 10---when they complained they "had no clean clothing to wear" because their favorite sweatpants had been worn just 1 day before.  So I took it upon myself to teach them how to do laundry and they did it 95% of the time after that.  They also learned you wash sheets weekly (or at least every 2 weeks) and change towels every 4-5 days.    Don't understand why people don't teach their kids this
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Good grief. Stop being a sanctimonious piggy. My kids started doing their own laundry around middle or high school and I certainly do not find that this made them or me superior in anyway. The kids who don’t know how to do laundry in college quickly figure it out. It requires maybe 3 brain cells to figure out how to do it.[/quote]

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