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Originally Posted by 4X4
When I was about 10 my mom showed me how to use the washer and dryer and the stove and the fridge. Basically told me that from then on, if I wanted clean clothes, that's where I'd get them. Breakfast and lunch were my own responsibility. If I wanted mac&cheese, make it myself.
At the time I thought she was a bit of a bitch, but in retrospect, I'm glad. I'd hate to be one of those helpless losers that needs his mom or his wife to do everything for him.
I've got a buddy that can't iron. Or says he can't. I don't know what's so difficult or intimidating about an iron. If you don't like ironing, don't buy shirts that require it. But it's impossible to "not know how to iron". When he says that, what he really means is "I'm too lazy to do it, so I'll make my g/f do it for me".
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My mom was pretty much the exact same way. I was making my own lunches and doing my own laundry in elementary school. I'm sure I hated her for it at the time, but it certainly helped make me pretty self sufficient.
One of my first roomates was the most useless person I have ever met. When he was living at home, his mom did absolutely everything for him, cook, clean, laundry, etc. I honestly think that when we moved in together he thought I would do that stuff for him... and no, he wasn't even my boyfriend. He didn't know how to do anything. He couldn't even cook pasta.
Parents should not be sending their kids out in the world without having taught them basic skills such as cooking and cleaning... their kids are friggin' useless.