Know this might get some red x’s, but I do wonder how much of this “I can’t look after myself because I wasn’t taught” stuff is from parents not being around as much when the children were young. In many countries now, it’s just not possible to survive financially without two incomes, certainly not if you have children. Less time with kids, less time of the kids being around mum and dad, watching the jobs that they do around the home (and garden/garage, if they have them).
Could also be that kids are too engrossed in tv, vidya and online creepo forums to pay attention, but these basic skills used to be taught earlier than that anyway. I’m an oldfag, we still had ‘home and family’ lessons in school and we were all taught basic sewing, cooking, woodwork and electrics, both boys and girls.
Maybe it’s a bonding thing? My parents certainly had their issues but little kids tend to adore their parents anyway, unless there’s really horrific abuse going on. They want to hang around their parents when they’re young - I’m talking like 3-7 kind of age, where you follow mum round while she hoovers and she lets you have a go with the duster and shows you about lifting things up to dust underneath them. That kind of thing. Do parents just not do that now? Are kids tied to screens from babyhood?
Man, this is depressing. No wonder so many kids are dumb enough to think bodies are plug and play and that communism is as easy as making rich people pay for your rent and door dash. I’ve made myself sad now.
Let the kids play, ffs. This internet-raised generation is gonna be the death of us.