Originally Posted by twassington:
“This is very true and seems a recent phenomenon. My kids are late twenties, early 30s and were brought up only a little softer than I was. Both could cook by the time they were sixteen and knew how to clean, do gardening, wash cars etc. Modern kids are being done no favours!!
Same here with my kids, and I agree (most) kids of today are sadly losing out on life skills at home along with no basic skills being taught at school either. I really do think we had a better childhood and more to look forward to, it's pretty grim these days.
I hope life settles for you, cazzie. It's been a year or two since I was in the sleepless night scenario....not fun
I'd have got a thick ear had I eaten the end of the bloomer, but I did beg for the "nob end" as soon as I'd delivered the loaf!
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“This is very true and seems a recent phenomenon. My kids are late twenties, early 30s and were brought up only a little softer than I was. Both could cook by the time they were sixteen and knew how to clean, do gardening, wash cars etc. Modern kids are being done no favours!!
Same here with my kids, and I agree (most) kids of today are sadly losing out on life skills at home along with no basic skills being taught at school either. I really do think we had a better childhood and more to look forward to, it's pretty grim these days.
I hope life settles for you, cazzie. It's been a year or two since I was in the sleepless night scenario....not fun
I'd have got a thick ear had I eaten the end of the bloomer, but I did beg for the "nob end" as soon as I'd delivered the loaf!
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Thanks twass
. Yep me too but my mum would always edge the bread out of the wrapper so it wasn't until the end that I would hear that tone in my mum's voice as she called out my name ... then I knew what was coming.




Yet with less expense and only a little knowledge they could eat something vastly superior. It seems that the skills passed down for countless generations are being lost! 