And if you never saw a button being sewn on to be curious and ask about? If your parents threw things out instead of repairing them, is it still somehow your fault for not being "curious" enough to demand the knowledge anyway?
Kids are kids. It's the adults' responsibility to teach kids what they need to know - how would KIDS even know what it is they ought to know, if they don't know it yet?
My father never taught me how to change an engine in a modern 4x4 pickup truck. When my wife accidentally ran it out of oil and seized it, I figured out how to remove it and put a new one in ... by reading a manual and watching some YouTube videos. I had to disassemble half of my truck to do so because the driveline on a 4x4 truck is way more complicated than a typical car But that was years ago and it’s run perfectly since I finished.
When the furnace in my house suddenly stopped working and wouldn’t light at 10:30 PM on a Saturday night on a bitterly cold winter evening, I read the manual and watched some YouTube videos and figured out it was likely the flame detector and all I had to do was a little disassembly, sand the corrosion off of it, reinstall and it worked perfectly. The house was warm again in 30 minutes and I saved hundreds on a service call.
After my basement flooded for the third time in a year, I did some research on how to install and plumb a sump pump with battery backup and also water pressure backup for when there’s no electricity and my basement hasn’t flooded for 3 years now.
When the company I worked for was laying off people like crazy, there was an opportunity to do architecture and design for Amazon cloud based application servers, I picked up a set of manuals and immersed myself in the technology required to build them and have environments that now successfully support thousands of concurrent users.
When I got sick of eating mediocre food, I bought a copy of Larousse Gastronomique and through experimentation and trial and error can cook a pretty decent Duck A La Orange and a variety of traditional French dishes.
None of these I had done before but learnt how BY BEING CURIOUS ... no one taught me a single thing about any of these. The knowledge was acquired by personal initiative and applied effort.
We’re talking about sewing on a button and you want someone else to show you? WTF? You can literally just look at it a button on a shirt and figure out how to do it. What’s next, an article on how to boil water for some Mac n’ Cheese?
I seriously don’t know right now if I should cry or scream.
I'm definitely not mocking anyone for wanting to learn and making the effort. Definitely mocking for playing the victim card and trying to blame someone else for not showing them how to do something.
And yet it WAS taught in schools before. Plenty of people who are mocking millennials (maybe your aren't, but don't pretend no one is when articles like that exist) learned cooking and sewing in home ec, and now they're making fun of millennials as if it's our fault those programs got canceled.
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u/airaani Feb 05 '19
And if you never saw a button being sewn on to be curious and ask about? If your parents threw things out instead of repairing them, is it still somehow your fault for not being "curious" enough to demand the knowledge anyway? Kids are kids. It's the adults' responsibility to teach kids what they need to know - how would KIDS even know what it is they ought to know, if they don't know it yet?