Old Skills

Do you know how to drive a stick shift?

When is the last time you hemmed a pair of pants or sharpened a knife? Here are some more basic life skills that we’re NOT teaching our kids:

• Drive a stick shift

• Cook from scratch

• Check the oil in the car

• Sew on a button

• Simple carpentry
• Cut hair

• Penmanship

When baby boomers were newlyweds, 80% of them knew how to make a roast – less than half of today’s newlyweds know how to do that. In the 1970s – 70% of men learned basic home repair skills from their dads – now it’s less than 40%.