StarWarsGirl
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Some of it might also just be your experience. My parents wash dishes the exact same way I do...running the water over each dish. Vacuuming and dusting Mom taught. Laundry Mom taught.I remember my mom teaching me (she died when I was 15, so this is all that age and younger) how to do laundry, but she left me to figure how to vacuum and dust. (I still hate dusting!) I don't recall her teaching me how to do dishes, but I'm guessing she did. That another source of weirdness with me.... I was taught to fill the sink with hot soapy water and then wash the dishes that way, rinsing in the other sink. But I see younger generations not filling the sink, and just washing 1 thing at a time with the water running. It seems foreign to me.
I remember my dad teaching me how to change a tire, and how to use jumper cables, and how to check my oil. He took me to the SoS (DMV for most of you) and walked me thru registering my first car, getting my license and license plate. I don't remember him showing me how to pump gas though.
Mostly I remember learning by watching... and I think that kids are so into screens now, that they don't watch their parents do stuff just because they are bored. (I was an only child at the time)
Cars are so foreign to me. Like, I look at nan engine and I'm totally clueless. My old car needed a jump. I called my uncle, who was nearby. I was with a friend, but it was dark and neither of us felt comfortable. My mom has showed me before (notice a pattern...Dad is a lousy teacher) but it just doesn't work in my brain. I also cannot change the tires or the oil. Neither can my parents, so that is a family thing in our case. We're not mechanical people by nature.