Annnnd our parents and grandparents never taught us basic life skills because the baby boomer generation loved outsourcing easy work, like hemming pants and baking cakes. The generations before us glommed onto the fast, easy fix, and important skills have been lost in the process.
(And of course the generation who raised us loves to act fake shocked like โmy grandkids donโt know how to boil waterโ like yeah, Janice, thatโs because you took your kids out to eat 6 nights a week and baked Stouffers lasagna one night)
And now we are broke. And canโt afford to pay $60 to have every pair of pants we own hemmed (shoutout to shorties!). We are making yogurt because we canโt afford to pay $2.50 for one yogurt.
Iโve learned to knit to make myself wool hats and scarves. Iโve learned to sew so I can make items that would otherwise cost me 4x the cost to make it. Iโve learned to make yogurt because I would prefer to spend $2 for a gallon of milk and get 24 yogurts out of it rather than just one.
Iโve planted fruit trees in my yard so I can reduce the carbon footprint of the fruit I eat, and because produce is expensive.
I raise egg-laying chickens so I donโt contribute to factory farming.
My husband hunts deer so that we can eat lean, virtually fat free meat, and also not contribute to factory farming. The deer live happy lives and are not allowed to suffer. (Hey PS also, hunting up here plays an important role in ecology, as otherwise the deer population would explode, and deer would starve in the winter. Thanks for coming to my TEDtaโฆ)
My generation is going on YouTube to learn to change tires, bake bread and do their taxes because yโall sure as shit didnโt teach us.
THIS
Lets not forget the phasing out of the HomeEc class.ย Or the Shop Class.
Alleviating oneโs ignorance of a subject should NEVER, EVER be looked down on! Learning and growing are never anything to be shamed of, or for!
reblogging for the additions.ย ย
really if you take a moment to think about the headline it basically just saysย โmillennials are so helpless theyโre taking time to learn how to do things they donโt know how to doโ
oh noโฆhow awfulโฆ
in my seventh grade home ec class, we learned how to make cookies and potpourri sachets. and thatโs it. my mother once asked me to โput the laundry onโ when i was 14 and i took the clothes out of the washing machine full of water and put them in the dryer because i thought thatโs what she meant. then she screamed at me because obviously that was wrong, which i know now, but until that point no one had ever showed me how to do laundry. even when i asked.
my father likes to poke fun at me and my brothers for not knowing simple things like that. but no one ever showed us. iโve learned more from youtube videos and wikihow pages than i can even say. i had to check a wikihow last night to make sure i was plunging the toilet correctly and that i didnโt need something more than a plunger.
when my parents were in high school, they had classes where they learned to drive and learned to cook and learned to sew and learned to do their taxes. we never had any of that and we should have.
