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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 658846" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the country and I don't know how to do most of that! LOL! What a great number of skills. Our son had NO interest in the outdoors. So unless someone else taught him, he does not know anything about wild plants (like me he's not allergic to poison ivy, so he never learned to id it) or how to do anything with fire, keep warm, etc. He may have some idea about power tools...but I really don't know. He hit about 12 and just didn't want to do anything much with us or learn anything. </p><p></p><p>But at least he knows how to do laundry, cook and clean. I know he's capable of that. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is the one thing I really do kind of dislike about our country, and it's really only happened in the last 50 years or so. It used to be family took care of each other. If you needed help, that's where you turned. Not only caring for brothers and sisters if necessary, but maybe more importantly, your elderly family members. My father's sisters took care of their mother when she was no longer in control of her faculties. My mother told stories of growing up with her grandfather, who lived with them. I know of others who took in elderly aunts and uncles. Until about the 60's, that's how it was. You raised your children and they in turn took care of you. I have no illusions that there's anything for me but a nursing home if I become unable to live on my own. </p><p></p><p>It's so wrong. I wish, like some European countries, it was common here to live in multi-generational households, for kids to stay home and work and help out until they married and then in time take in their parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 658846, member: 17309"] I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the country and I don't know how to do most of that! LOL! What a great number of skills. Our son had NO interest in the outdoors. So unless someone else taught him, he does not know anything about wild plants (like me he's not allergic to poison ivy, so he never learned to id it) or how to do anything with fire, keep warm, etc. He may have some idea about power tools...but I really don't know. He hit about 12 and just didn't want to do anything much with us or learn anything. But at least he knows how to do laundry, cook and clean. I know he's capable of that. This is the one thing I really do kind of dislike about our country, and it's really only happened in the last 50 years or so. It used to be family took care of each other. If you needed help, that's where you turned. Not only caring for brothers and sisters if necessary, but maybe more importantly, your elderly family members. My father's sisters took care of their mother when she was no longer in control of her faculties. My mother told stories of growing up with her grandfather, who lived with them. I know of others who took in elderly aunts and uncles. Until about the 60's, that's how it was. You raised your children and they in turn took care of you. I have no illusions that there's anything for me but a nursing home if I become unable to live on my own. It's so wrong. I wish, like some European countries, it was common here to live in multi-generational households, for kids to stay home and work and help out until they married and then in time take in their parents. [/QUOTE]
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