Do our modern Hi-Tech children miss out on learning basic life skills?
Watch this postWhen I was young we had basic cookery sewing, woodwork and the like included in the school curriculum, and the young ones learnt at home from parents how to D.I.Y, make-do and mend.
The knowledge stood me in good stead all my life, and even more so in these troubled times.
Are today's kids missing out?
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I think it's so important that our children and grandchildren learn these basics and I wholeheartedly applaud Bear Grylls (Chief Scout) for stepping up and encouraging children to be self-sufficient.
There are ways these skills can be gained, parents just have to look for them, or perhaps look to grandparents to help.
Yes there is a lack of teaching in practical skills but parents and grandparents can teach these If in doubt people can always look online for guidance to complete many tasks.
Particularly now we need to look to the future yes learn from the past but don't live in it.
Families are dispersed, parents often working, and grandparents at a distance.
A shortage of Youth Officers, to run clubs, Councils cannot afford them, and few people come forward these days to give their time to run the Guide and Scout troupes of my youth, they are all too busy. and is it always practical to teach how to use a cooker or tools or handle fire safely from a computer.?
I agree that education must be relevant to the times, but practical skills, Arts and life skills are just as necessary. ( Incidentally I did my part when I was able.)
Tools I m not familiar with their use but the range is vast I can however use a screwdriver and a hammer and day to.day that's all I.require.You will be surprised to.hear that my fire safety training. as a
support worker was done on line was
comprehensive and ultimately I could on a night shift be responsible alone for evacuating four vulnerable adults or making the decisions to leave them in rooms where fire doors.protected them for twenty minutes Fortunately the situation didn't arise but it illustrates the importance of support staff and the faith their company's have in on line learning.