Posts by aniT

Quote: Originally Posted by lifeguard Most of the lifeskills on our list are already stated. I would like to add (& in some ways it has already been touched on) how to navigate & deal with red...

Quote: Originally Posted by Storm Bride This. I hadn't mentioned it before, but I was a complete...UAV during the last year or two of my first marriage. I shudder to think of some of the words ds1 heard from me, and the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Storm Bride Fair enough. I missed that the OP said skills they wanted to teach their kids. I thought this thread was about basic functioning. In any case, I've discovered reading this thread...

Quote: Originally Posted by SeekingJoy Yes! My hoarding mother totally fails at this. If not taught as a habit early, it can be so hard to unlearn a lifetime of messy behavior.

Quote: Originally Posted by lynsage View Post It also shocks me how many adults from two-parent homes I know that never learned to do basic home repairs or yard work Oh I missed this the first time around. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by AbbieB I This kind of thinking, and the fact that it has been normalized, just makes me so sad. I'm not picking on the poster, in fact I spent the last 2 years worried that some one would...

Quote: Originally Posted by Storm Bride I guess the airport thing puzzles me, because the basics are...really basic - far simpler than balancing a bank account or cooking, for instance. Barriers to navigating an airport...

Quote: Originally Posted by July09Mama We live in a city with great public transit and we don't own a car, so being able to take a bus or train and bike are essential basics for us. Driving isn't in our current...

People work under the table all the time where I am from. But as an aside.. DH's job ONLY pays by direct deposit. (government.) If you get social security or any other type of government check they ONLY pay by direct deposit. So...

My father is an alcoholic and my parents divorced when I was 3. I don't know him. He thought it was more important to be a drunk than to take care of the 6 children he fathered with three different wives (and these are just the legal...