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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 658838" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I'm not sure if it is about helicoptering, I mean, I can helicopter with best of them in some matters, but I nor the hubby raised any helpless people. We made it a point for our boys know how to cook, clean, do laundry, budget, understand percentages (e.g. have tools they need to manage personal finances), and know how to read balance sheets (e.g. basics if investing.) They know their wild plants (what to eat and what not), know how to make a fire and firewood, how to keep warm, how to read map and compass both in the wild and sea, how to sail, and when not to. Know how to repair and build things (repair their clothes, bikes, mopeds, do simple carpenter jobs, operate tools), know hot to saw a tree, know when not to touch the tree that has fallen on the road and eletric lines and so on. All the things rural boy needs to know.</p><p></p><p>What they do with it is up to them. But they do know how to survive both in the civilisation and in the wild.</p><p></p><p>By the way, instead of helicopter parenting we call it curling parenting around here. Cleaning the obstacles from their way for them...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 658838, member: 14557"] I'm not sure if it is about helicoptering, I mean, I can helicopter with best of them in some matters, but I nor the hubby raised any helpless people. We made it a point for our boys know how to cook, clean, do laundry, budget, understand percentages (e.g. have tools they need to manage personal finances), and know how to read balance sheets (e.g. basics if investing.) They know their wild plants (what to eat and what not), know how to make a fire and firewood, how to keep warm, how to read map and compass both in the wild and sea, how to sail, and when not to. Know how to repair and build things (repair their clothes, bikes, mopeds, do simple carpenter jobs, operate tools), know hot to saw a tree, know when not to touch the tree that has fallen on the road and eletric lines and so on. All the things rural boy needs to know. What they do with it is up to them. But they do know how to survive both in the civilisation and in the wild. By the way, instead of helicopter parenting we call it curling parenting around here. Cleaning the obstacles from their way for them... [/QUOTE]
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