Episode-2425- The Lost Art of Developing Life Skills
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My wife had some morning talk crap on earlier this week. Can’t remember what it was but it was two gals sucking down wine in the morning and cackling about stuff. Anyway they started talking about the concept of “snow plow parenting”. Okay I will listen, may be if I had some of that wine……..
Well it was a decent segment, they were talking about how young adults 18-27 were no longer developing life skills. One of the gals talking was a late menial (37) the other a mid GenXr (46 like me). What they were saying was that snow plowing was when parents did so much for kids they never developed basic skills.
How bad was it, well in the age range of 18-27 almost 70% of those surveyed were still relying on parents to set appointments for them, like for the Dr. and Dentist type shit, at fricken 27! And get this shit, 25% of parents of ADULTS this age, admitted to contacting their employer to do things like “tell them they are having a rough day at work today so try to go easy on them”. WTF!
So I am coming off the schedule today and instead of doing a call in show we are going to talk about life skills. Unlike many that just like to bitch and shake their heads I am into solutions. These young adults don’t suck at life because they chose to, they were enabled and taught to. Today we discuss developing life skills, both in kids and in our own lives where we are lacking.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- How the hell did we get to this point, it isn’t likely what you think it is
- Why we need to stop teaching things and start teaching “how to learn”
- The role the school system plays in all of this
- 20 Life Skills Everyone Should Learn Young (or eventually)
- Managing money and basic budgets
- Dealing with rejection, hardship and loss
- How to negotiate and buy big ticket items, insurance, etc.
- Cooking (really well by the way)
- How to sell, specifically how to sell yourself
- Critical thinking, research and analysis
- Computer troubleshooting
- Self defense and situational awareness
- Do basic home repairs, use tools, etc.
- How to read a map, give directions, draw a basic map, etc.
- How to use Excel
- How to sew, at least basic stuff, fix a button, darn a sock, etc.
- The concept of basic preparedness
- First aid
- Basic automotive knowledge, change a tire, how an engine works, etc.
- How to build a network (a real one, not just followers)
- Social etiquette
- How to plant (gardens, flowers, herbs, trees, whatever)
- How to find their passion and purpose along with patience in doing so
- How to learn something just because you want to and put it into practice
- Final Thoughts
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- Biltong for Breakfast
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- El Paso – Marty Robbins
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1. The reason parents snow plow for their children is because the parents are children themselves. They don’t have the discipline to watch their children struggle. If you don’t struggle, you don’t grow (up).
Steven I think you will like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDXM5H-Fuw
3. Car salesman: Yes that is the absolute lowest price we will sell that car, why people don’t believe them. Because the price was higher than what sources said it should be we checked elsewhere and ended up with a great deal. Week later salesman contacted us with a lower price, one we would have accepted, price we asked for. Even though they said lowest price, their “best offer/lowest price” was not. However he was too late and the better deal we got out of town was still better than their new price. It was like thank you for giving us such a crappy deal we decided to check elsewhere.
Sad thing is if the first price they quote after asking for their absolute lowest price, is an honest answer we expect it to not be true and expect them to come down some more and get irritated when they don’t
Would you consider having an episode that helped people understand where to use Excel? What variables should be included or at least where to find them. I know basic stuff, adding subtracting, and such but the formula names don’t make sense to me so I don’t know what they calculate. Since you say we could learn it in a day we must not have to use the formulas that have the cryptic sounding names that represent some kind of higher math, or pivot table which really baffle me. Excel frustrates me to no end.
I am not really opposed to it but it is something really hard to explain verbally. I guess the confusion here is an example. By formula I just mean math. For example
12*4 + 3-2 vs. 12* (4+3) -2
In the first example 12 times 4 is 48, plus 3 is 51 minus 2 is 49.
In the second you start with 4 plus 3 equaling 7 then 12 times 7 equaling 84 subtract 1 and get 83.
This is like the most basic algebra, like 5th grade stuff. I am sure you didn’t learn a thing from my example of random numbers other than may be what I was talking about.
Now with excel we introduce a variable. We want to use the number in a cell, say b4 so we put that into our equation. The equation though you must create based on what YOU want to know.
I am not sure I can teach excel in audio, it is something I have to have a person next to me to do.
I think this free list will give you what you need to get started https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_iwD7O7FG7jzLQIYm6-9Gx3hvXVUG7C5
Once you get what excel can do and how it works you are able to get started just doing it and when you hit a road block you then know how to search out a solution.
Wow, Jack. wtf! I and my boss was just talking about this yesterday and then I see this post today. What timing. We deal with this shit everyday with employees. You are so right!
Listened to the song of the day, my dad used this song to teach me some of the self defense skills you talked about. He asked me to list all the reasons they might have been shooting at him besides a bar brawl gone wrong. Setting aside the fact that he could have handled the confrontation better, he stole a horse. That’ll get you hanged. Later the cowboys he was shooting at might not have been after him at first. The whole song is one unthinking mess compounding another.
You nailed it, a spiral of self destruction over a woman.