Learning to do household things

As a parent you want your kids to be better off then you were when you left your nest right? Well now days many parents are forgetting the little things in preparing their youth to leave home. When many kids move out they do not know how to do the little things in order survive on their own. In an interview I did with Eva Johnson, the head director of the Health and Wellness center here at Dixie State College, she said, “One of the things I see is students coming to me not knowing how to cook, clean, do their laundry”(Johnson). All of these things are over looked when planning on sending your kid away to college. Eva says, “You should start teaching your kids the little things in life from an early age. When I was a dorm mother years ago many of the kids in the dorms would ask my younger kids for help because I had taught them so well. They knew how to do laundry and clean when they were all young” (Johnson). My parents did a very good job at teaching me how to do everything. Now wouldn’t it have been nice for every student to have parents like mine? Unfortunately many do not have that luxury of that and are forced to learn all of these things on their own. Now if parents would take the time to think and teach their kids, the problems they encounter would be immensely smaller. Maybe the reason that parents don’t take the time is because they don’t know how to. Their parents didn’t do it for them and so now they don’t know how to do it for their own children. That doesn’t work with my generation now. We are people that have to be told what to do, want everything now and just need to see immediate results but don’t know how to work for those results. To me that sounds like a hard job for a parent to teach someone like that. If a parent hasn’t done this is doesn’t mean that they have done a poor job of raising their kids but some do a bad job at preparing them to move out and start their own life and that’s a fact. My parents mind set was that if you raise them and show them the basics that they will be capable of doing it on their own. My mom made me do my own laundry, gave me money once a week and taught me how to save and budget my money in order to afford what I wanted. Those things helped me as I prepared to move out and was on my own. Now that doesn’t always happen, many parents decide to let their kids figure it out for themselves and that isn’t the best case for some kids they need more guidance then that. I have a friend that his parents didn’t guide him in life. They were there and made rules but never followed them. Now this friend is not going to college, works in fast food, hasn’t moved out of his parents house and will probably be stuck going pay check to pay check for the rest of his life, all because his parents never gave him a little more guidance. As a parent I would feel like that isn’t good enough for my kid and see the affects of what no guidance will do to a kid.

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