After deciding today that my daughter has no obvious skill in stacking dishes on a draining board (she's grown up with a dishwasher icon_ ) we got to thinking about all the other things she'll probably never need to learn. These are a few that came to mind:
How to wind a watch or clock.
How to clean, make up, or light an open fire.
How to wash clothes by hand or, even more unlikely, use a washboard.
How to use or even recognise a public phone.
I'm sure there are many other things, and others that our generation never picked up from our parents/grandparents. What do you remember doing that kids wouldn't know about nowadays?
Drinking water from a garden hose. Who the hell would buy water in a plastic bottle?
Riding my bike the 7km from our house to the city along the cycleway, which ran past a couple of areas that used to be known as the bad part of town. Every weekend. Thus proving the lie that is stranger danger.
Seeing my mate's Dad's .22 rifles unsecured on the rifle rack in his son's bedroom, with the ammo in the top drawer.
Shooting another .22 on a farm without cocking between shots (those dangerous ally cans had little to fear!)
Being told to go play outside.
Having more real friends than e-mail friends.
they may never find true love, or drink water from a garden hose, atari, space invaders, scrub tiles, cook old village meals, play outside, sing like no one can hear them, never wonder up and down the street until late after dark with their friends, dial an old phone, get up to change the channel on the television, hand write their school work.
and the list can go on, lucky for us, we have taught our kids all of the above, we keep it old school.
OLD SKOOL IS COOL
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my son doesnt know how to clean his room
they dont know how to fix things, they throw then away
they never had to ride 40k to do sport
they have been made to cut firewood but cant make shingles
split sandstone or make fence posts, my daughter wants to learn how to make a fence from trees lol
they dont drive tractors or use the slasher
i feel sorry they didnt learn this stuff
They wont forget to rewind the video before returning it, or coming home when the street light come on (because they are actually outside!).
I'm sure they will never know that take away food is actually a treat, or how to write an actual letter, let alone post one!................
Quote by mr_twonewbies keep them coming! so far i have done/learned how to do all but 2 of the things listed in my 18 years.
which 2 you missing lol True love, whatever that might be and using a washboard but i do clean my clothes by hand usually seeing as the dodgy washing machine at home likes to jam all the time.
Riding pushbikes from morning til dusk with our friends, playing in the street with neighbours kids til the streetlights came on, lighting firerackers , waking xmas morning to all your neighbourhood friends in the street on their new bikes and not hidden indoors playing nintendos or such, pushing the hand lawnmower round the backyard, sleeping in the house on a hot night with just the front wire door shut, not locked, god we didnt even lock the back door unless we went away..lol..
Getting up to change the TV station, calling people MR and MRS, fixing your own damn bike, the joy of playing 45's at 78, $1 worth of mixed lollies being worth it, glass milk bottles, running onto the G after the game......
buying a twopenny bunger from the corner shop and blowing apart letter-boxes....hehehe :twisted: mr two was naughty, he made shotgun shell bombs and pipe bombs
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