What is Digg?152 Comments
- tidu, on 10/11/2007, -6/+145"You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills."
- Gir53457, on 10/11/2007, -5/+117HE can be used when you're not sure of the person's gender.
- MikeMcG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+64One of those skills should be "Choose good solid hosting"
- zirtbow, on 10/11/2007, -8/+45Account Suspended.
I didn't think getting suspended was a skill. - kitwaites, on 10/11/2007, -7/+39http://zenhabits.net.nyud.net:8090/2007/06/27-skills-your-child-needs-to-know-that-shes-not-getting-in-school/
Everyone knows that our school system, in general, is not giving our kids the basic reading, writing, ‘rithmatic and science skills needed to be competitive in the high-tech workforce of the upcoming generation (at least, that’s the general assumption, and we won’t argue it here).
But there’s much more to life than those basic subjects, and unless you have an exceptional teacher who is willing to break out of the mold, your child isn’t learning the crucial things he or she needs to learn in life.
Think about your own experience for a moment. When you got out of high school, did you know everything you needed in order to survive in life, let alone succeed? If you were lucky, you knew how to read and had some basic history and math skills, and if you were even luckier, you had good study habits that would serve you well in college.
But were you prepared for life? Most likely not, unless you had parents who did you that favor. In fact, many of us screwed up our early adult lives because we didn’t know those skills — and we’re paying the consequences now.
That’s a part of life, you might say, learning these lessons. But it’s also possible to prepare your child a bit before they go out on their own, and if we can’t get the schools to teach these skills, then let’s do it ourselves.
What follows is a basic curriculum in life that a child should know before reaching adulthood. There will probably be other skills you can add to this list, but at least it’s a starting point.
A note on how to teach these things: These subjects should not be taught by lectures or textbooks. They can only be taught by setting examples, by conversation, by showing, and by allowing the child (or teenager) to do these things on their own (with supervision at first). Once you’ve talked about the skill, showed your child how to do it, and let them do it under supervision a few times, give your child the trust to do it on his own, and to learn from his own mistakes. Check back every now and then to talk about what he’s learned.
Financial
- Saving. Spend less than you earn. It’s such a simple maxim, and yet very few young adults understand it or know how to follow it. Teach your child from a young age to put part of money he receives or earns in the bank. Teach him how to set a savings goal, and save for it, and then purchase whatever it is he was saving for.
- Budgeting. Many of us dread this task as adults, and suffer because of it, because we lack the understanding and skills necessary to make budgeting a breeze. Teach them simple budgeting skills, and what’s involved, and they won’t have problems as an adult. You could wait until teenage years to do something like this — but it’s a good thing because this shows them why basic math is necessary.
* Paying bills. Give them bills to pay and have them pay it on time, online or in the real world. Learn how to write a check, paper and online, and how to make sure that you’re never late with bills again — either pay them immediately or automatically.
* Investing. What is investing and why is it necessary? How do you do it and what are different ways of doing it? How do you research an investment? How does it compound over time? This is a good conversation to have with your teen.
- Frugality. This is something to teach them from an early age. How to shop around to get a good deal, to compare between products of different prices and quality, to make things last and not waste, to cook at home instead of eating out too much, to control impulse buying. When we go out and do a shopping spree, including before Christmas, we are teaching them just the opposite.
- Credit. This is a major problem for many adults. Teach them the responsible use for credit, and how to avoid it when it’s not necessary, and how to avoid getting into too much debt, and how to use a credit card responsibly.
- Retirement. Is it better to work hard and retire or to take mini-retirements throughout life? That’s a personal question, but your child should be aware of the options and the pros and cons of each, and how to do each. Why it’s important to start investing in retirement when you’re young, and how much of a difference that can make through compound interest. How to do it automatically.
- Charity. Why this is an important use of your money, and how to make it a regular habit. This should be not only a financial issue, but a social one. Show them how to volunteer their time and effort as well.
Thinking
- Critical thinking. One of the most important skills not taught in school. These days, we are taught to be robots, to listen to the teacher and not to question, to accept what we are told and not to think, to be good employees and to shut up. If you’re an employer, you might want your employees to be like this, and if you’re a politician, you might want your citizens to be like this. But is that how you want your child to be? An unquestioning, naive, ignorant citizen/employee/student? If so, carry on. If not, just start introducing the habit of questioning why? And the skill of find out the answer. And how to question authority — there is no one right answer. Conversation is a good way to accomplish this skill.
- Reading. Sure, we’re taught to read. But schools most often make this boring. Show your child the wonderful imaginative worlds there are out there. And show them how to find out about stuff in the world through the Internet, and how to evaluate what they read for credibility, logic, factualness.
Success
- Positive thinking. While critical thinking is an important skill, it’s also important to have a positive outlook on life. Sure, things may be screwed up, but they can be changed for the better. Find solutions instead of complaints. And most of all, learn to believe in yourself, and to block out negative self-thinking.
- Motivation. Learn that discipline isn’t the key to achieving a goal, but motivation. How to motivate yourself, different strategies, and how great it feels to achieve a goal. Start them with small, easily achievable goals, and let them develop this skill.
- Procrastination. It’s a problem we all deal with as adults (and even as kids). Now, I believe that there should be a time for goofing off, being lazy, and having fun. But when there’s something to do that we really need to do, how do we get ourselves to do it? Learn the reasons behind procrastination, and how to address them. How to beat procrastination.
- Passion. One of the most important ways to be successful is to find something you’re passionate about, and do that for a living. Your child won’t know the answer at a young age, but you should show her how to find her passion and how to pursue it, and why that’s important.
Social
- Anti-competition. As kids, we’re taught how to be competitive. In the adult world, that’s how we behave. And that results in back-stabbing, undercutting, feelings of resentment, and other life-affirming things like that. Instead, teach your child how there is room for many people to be successful, and how you’re more likely to be successful if you help others to be successful, and how they’ll help you in return. Learn that making friends and allies is better than making enemies, and how to do that. Learn cooperation and teamwork before competition.
- Compassion. Not taught in the schools at all. In fact, instead of teaching children how to empathize with others and try to ease their suffering, our schools often teach children to increase the suffering of others. Learn to put yourself in the shoes of others, to try to understand them, and to help them end their suffering.
- Love. Compassion’s twin brother, love differs only in that instead of wanting to ease the suffering of others, you want their happiness. Both are crucial.
- Listening. Are our children taught how to listen in school? Or how to talk at someone. Perhaps that’s why many adults don’t have this critical skill. Learn how to truly listen to someone, to understand what they’re saying, to empathize.
- Conversation. Goes hand-in-hand with listening, but the art of conversation is something that isn’t taught in school. In fact, kids are taught that conversation is bad in most cases. But in most cases, a conversation is what is needed, not a lecture. This is an extremely important social skill that should start in the home. Learn to converse with your child instead of talk at him.
Practical
- Auto. Why cars are needed (no, not to look cool), how to buy a practical car, how to take care of it. How the engine works, what might break down, and how it’s fixed. Should be taught to both boys and girls (that should be obvious, but I had to say it).
- Household. How to fix things around the house and keep things maintained. Plumbing, electricity, heating and cooling, painting, roofing, lawn, all that good stuff. The tools and skills necessary to do just the basic maintenance and repairs. And how to know when to call a professional.
- Cleaning. Too many adults grow up without knowing how to do laundry, to clean a house properly, to keep the house clean and uncluttered, to have a weekly and monthly cleaning routine. Teach your child all these things instead of just telling her what to do.
- Organization. How to keep paperwork organized, how to keep things in their place, to to keep a to-do list, how to set routines, how to focus on the important tasks.
Happiness
- Be present. For some reason, this extremely important skill is never taught to us when we’re kids. In truth, the younger we are, the more natural this skill is. As we get older, we start thinking about the future and the past, and the present seems to slip away from us. Some skills for living in the present would go a long way.
- Enjoy life. Kids don’t have much of a problem with this, but some awareness of its importance and how to do it, even as an adult, would be helpful. Set a good example of this, and your kids will follow.
- Find purpose. Whether this is a higher religious purpose, or the purpose of making your family happy, or the purpose of finding your calling, having a purpose in life is extremely important. Teach your children the importance of this and show how to do it yourself.
- Develop intimate relationships. The best way to teach this is to develop an intimate relationship with your child, and model it with your spouse or other significant other (within appropriateness). Teach them the skills for developing these types of relationships, talk about the importance of it, and how to get through the bumpy parts as well. There are bad times in every relationship, but with the right skills of communication, empathy and compromise, they can get through them. - Mearn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Twenty Seven Skills Your Children Need to Know That They’re Not Getting In School
How's that? - Shenaniganz08, on 10/11/2007, -12/+41Yeah digg down for me stupid article, im going to Med school, and I was in a public school all my life
btw im pretty sure school taught me how to read -____-
"Everyone knows that our school system, in general, is not giving our kids the basic reading, writing, ‘rithmatic and science skills needed to be competitive in the high-tech workforce of the upcoming generation (at least, that’s the general assumption, and we won’t argue it here).
But there’s much more to life than those basic subjects, and unless you have an exceptional teacher who is willing to break out of the mold, your child isn’t learning the crucial things he or she needs to learn in life.
Think about your own experience for a moment. When you got out of high school, did you know everything you needed in order to survive in life, let alone succeed? If you were lucky, you knew how to read and had some basic history and math skills, and if you were even luckier, you had good study habits that would serve you well in college.
But were you prepared for life? Most likely not, unless you had parents who did you that favor. In fact, many of us screwed up our early adult lives because we didn’t know those skills — and we’re paying the consequences now.
That’s a part of life, you might say, learning these lessons. But it’s also possible to prepare your child a bit before they go out on their own, and if we can’t get the schools to teach these skills, then let’s do it ourselves.
What follows is a basic curriculum in life that a child should know before reaching adulthood. There will probably be other skills you can add to this list, but at least it’s a starting point.
A note on how to teach these things: These subjects should not be taught by lectures or textbooks. They can only be taught by setting examples, by conversation, by showing, and by allowing the child (or teenager) to do these things on their own (with supervision at first). Once you’ve talked about the skill, showed your child how to do it, and let them do it under supervision a few times, give your child the trust to do it on his own, and to learn from his own mistakes. Check back every now and then to talk about what he’s learned.
Financial
* Saving. Spend less than you earn. It’s such a simple maxim, and yet very few young adults understand it or know how to follow it. Teach your child from a young age to put part of money he receives or earns in the bank. Teach him how to set a savings goal, and save for it, and then purchase whatever it is he was saving for.
* Budgeting. Many of us dread this task as adults, and suffer because of it, because we lack the understanding and skills necessary to make budgeting a breeze. Teach them simple budgeting skills, and what’s involved, and they won’t have problems as an adult. You could wait until teenage years to do something like this — but it’s a good thing because this shows them why basic math is necessary.
* Paying bills. Give them bills to pay and have them pay it on time, online or in the real world. Learn how to write a check, paper and online, and how to make sure that you’re never late with bills again — either pay them immediately or automatically.
* Investing. What is investing and why is it necessary? How do you do it and what are different ways of doing it? How do you research an investment? How does it compound over time? This is a good conversation to have with your teen.
* Frugality. This is something to teach them from an early age. How to shop around to get a good deal, to compare between products of different prices and quality, to make things last and not waste, to cook at home instead of eating out too much, to control impulse buying. When we go out and do a shopping spree, including before Christmas, we are teaching them just the opposite.
* Credit. This is a major problem for many adults. Teach them the responsible use for credit, and how to avoid it when it’s not necessary, and how to avoid getting into too much debt, and how to use a credit card responsibly.
* Retirement. Is it better to work hard and retire or to take mini-retirements throughout life? That’s a personal question, but your child should be aware of the options and the pros and cons of each, and how to do each. Why it’s important to start investing in retirement when you’re young, and how much of a difference that can make through compound interest. How to do it automatically.
* Charity. Why this is an important use of your money, and how to make it a regular habit. This should be not only a financial issue, but a social one. Show them how to volunteer their time and effort as well.
Thinking
* Critical thinking. One of the most important skills not taught in school. These days, we are taught to be robots, to listen to the teacher and not to question, to accept what we are told and not to think, to be good employees and to shut up. If you’re an employer, you might want your employees to be like this, and if you’re a politician, you might want your citizens to be like this. But is that how you want your child to be? An unquestioning, naive, ignorant citizen/employee/student? If so, carry on. If not, just start introducing the habit of questioning why? And the skill of find out the answer. And how to question authority — there is no one right answer. Conversation is a good way to accomplish this skill.
* Reading. Sure, we’re taught to read. But schools most often make this boring. Show your child the wonderful imaginative worlds there are out there. And show them how to find out about stuff in the world through the Internet, and how to evaluate what they read for credibility, logic, factualness.
Success
* Positive thinking. While critical thinking is an important skill, it’s also important to have a positive outlook on life. Sure, things may be screwed up, but they can be changed for the better. Find solutions instead of complaints. And most of all, learn to believe in yourself, and to block out negative self-thinking.
* Motivation. Learn that discipline isn’t the key to achieving a goal, but motivation. How to motivate yourself, different strategies, and how great it feels to achieve a goal. Start them with small, easily achievable goals, and let them develop this skill.
* Procrastination. It’s a problem we all deal with as adults (and even as kids). Now, I believe that there should be a time for goofing off, being lazy, and having fun. But when there’s something to do that we really need to do, how do we get ourselves to do it? Learn the reasons behind procrastination, and how to address them. How to beat procrastination.
* Passion. One of the most important ways to be successful is to find something you’re passionate about, and do that for a living. Your child won’t know the answer at a young age, but you should show her how to find her passion and how to pursue it, and why that’s important.
Social
* Anti-competition. As kids, we’re taught how to be competitive. In the adult world, that’s how we behave. And that results in back-stabbing, undercutting, feelings of resentment, and other life-affirming things like that. Instead, teach your child how there is room for many people to be successful, and how you’re more likely to be successful if you help others to be successful, and how they’ll help you in return. Learn that making friends and allies is better than making enemies, and how to do that. Learn cooperation and teamwork before competition.
* Compassion. Not taught in the schools at all. In fact, instead of teaching children how to empathize with others and try to ease their suffering, our schools often teach children to increase the suffering of others. Learn to put yourself in the shoes of others, to try to understand them, and to help them end their suffering.
* Love. Compassion’s twin brother, love differs only in that instead of wanting to ease the suffering of others, you want their happiness. Both are crucial.
* Listening. Are our children taught how to listen in school? Or how to talk at someone. Perhaps that’s why many adults don’t have this critical skill. Learn how to truly listen to someone, to understand what they’re saying, to empathize.
* Conversation. Goes hand-in-hand with listening, but the art of conversation is something that isn’t taught in school. In fact, kids are taught that conversation is bad in most cases. But in most cases, a conversation is what is needed, not a lecture. This is an extremely important social skill that should start in the home. Learn to converse with your child instead of talk at him.
Practical
* Auto. Why cars are needed (no, not to look cool), how to buy a practical car, how to take care of it. How the engine works, what might break down, and how it’s fixed. Should be taught to both boys and girls (that should be obvious, but I had to say it).
* Household. How to fix things around the house and keep things maintained. Plumbing, electricity, heating and cooling, painting, roofing, lawn, all that good stuff. The tools and skills necessary to do just the basic maintenance and repairs. And how to know when to call a professional.
* Cleaning. Too many adults grow up without knowing how to do laundry, to clean a house properly, to keep the house clean and uncluttered, to have a weekly and monthly cleaning routine. Teach your child all these things instead of just telling her what to do.
* Organization. How to keep paperwork organized, how to keep things in their place, to to keep a to-do list, how to set routines, how to focus on the important tasks.
Happiness
* Be present. For some reason, this extremely important skill is never taught to us when we’re kids. In truth, the younger we are, the more natural this skill is. As we get older, we start thinking about the future and the past, and the present seems to slip away from us. Some skills for living in the present would go a long way.
* Enjoy life. Kids don’t have much of a problem with this, but some awareness of its importance and how to do it, even as an adult, would be helpful. Set a good example of this, and your kids will follow.
* Find purpose. Whether this is a higher religious purpose, or the purpose of making your family happy, or the purpose of finding your calling, having a purpose in life is extremely important. Teach your children the importance of this and show how to do it yourself.
* Develop intimate relationships. The best way to teach this is to develop an intimate relationship with your child, and model it with your spouse or other significant other (within appropriateness). Teach them the skills for developing these types of relationships, talk about the importance of it, and how to get through the bumpy parts as well. There are bad times in every relationship, but with the right skills of communication, empathy and compromise, they can get through them." - Nick22, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25diggs != traffic
- flernk, on 10/11/2007, -22/+45I know I'll get hammered for saying this on digg, but my kids learn 90% of those values at church.
- anonymousguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24America doesn't need to be pussified anymore than it already is.
I'm sick and tired of people declaring "discrimination" at the drop of a hat.
Stop being so bloody sensitive. - techmonkey4u, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21!= is a symbol for "not equal to"
- Nick22, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25teaching them to be anticompetitive? Stupidest thing ever. Competition is great
- Mearn, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22Getting suspended isn't a skill! It's an art form.
But damn was that a lot of money I wasted on bouncy balls - LucasVB, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17@Ianki: apparently you're not a programmer
- aplusbi, on 10/11/2007, -5/+21Your church taught your children how to do laundry and save for retirement!?!?
I know, I know...90%. I just couldn't help it. - ig33k010011, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Gramatically it's either "he" or "he or she", never just "she".
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Use 'he' or 'he or she'. Do not use 'they'. If you are rebuked for the former by an idiot or a feminist who would have you contort your sentences to accommodate his or her useless cavillous sensitivities, promptly punch him or her.
- dubled, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I've often wondered why the heck we are not taught about taxes in school. The schools dump you out on the street after you graduate with no knowledge of how taxes work. Do they expect us to just fork the $50-100 out every year to have someone do them? I think we need less focus on things that don't matter like the countless varities of sports and more on life skills.
- schoate09, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Skill 28, he or she should not use bluehost.
- whatthefu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12It's true about the reading part. A lot of kids grow to hate books simply because they're forced to read them (usually ones they don't like or can't connect to) in school.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15im in ur public skoolz messin with ur grammarz
- ut2k4king, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I suppose it's good to mention that in many languages, with the exception of English the male form is chosen when uncertain. Apparently, though, saying "he" instead of "he or she" or "they" gets people (me) detentions... too damn politically correct.
- anonymousguy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Anti-competitiveness? Sounds like communist malarkey to me. Damn hippies.
- tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -7/+17You're right. You can learn a lot of that in Church. And it's stupid to think that going to Church excludes critical thinking.
- sm4k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I don't think that's quite the reason behind teaching them to not be competitive. I think a more important lesson is teaching them _when_ to be competitive, and how to competitive fairly. While you don't want to raise a doormat, you also don't want to raise an *****. Cutting in line is not acceptable, but striving to be the best is certainly something that should be instilled.
They shouldn't think that 'everyone wins' because it's a cold fact of life that a lot of times you just don't. However, you shouldn't raise a person who is willing to shortchange someone else for their own benefit. - twrife, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Guys don't need these skills because they are naturally better.
- Prometheus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Hippies ~ Commies
- ButterBuddha, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Proper Digg etiquette.....
- Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13Critical thinking, and rigorous systematic thought in general, should be taught, but then the government is not going to give weapons to the proletariat.
- dattaway, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10That may be funny now, but internet has become a mainstream communications tool and should be taught in technical detail. Is the current average kid able to understand what a packet is and how its routed? Things like this may help them understand how their messages get sent. Much like driving a car, it helps to know where the oil goes.
- damnyooneek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You may but to tell you the truth many of the teachers i had didnt
- Daniel591992, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13Spam link ^^ Someone report
- thatguy73, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I am a high school science teacher - I squeeze many of these in where they are appropriate (lots of auto and finance).
- tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9@Newt
Technically, that's right. Realistically, though, everyone uses "they". - ConservoHippie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Never they. They is a plural pronoun. The reference is to one individual.
Although, "they," in its improper use, is becoming recognized as a possible substitute by some. - tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Hippies != Commies
- saladtossser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7what about working with power tools?
- DaveLam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6mirror?
- sail191912, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I went to Catholic school & a majority of those items (bills, investments, plumbing, how to change tires, which fork to use in a formal dinner, never mix whites with colored clothes in the washing machine, etc.) were taught in Practical Arts, along with archaic activities, like making lace and walking while balancing a book on your head.
For critical thinking, we had church history, the realistic, unedited version, and we were taught not to take the bible literally.
For life enjoyment, we had very minimal homework, to give us time for extra-curricular activities. - starguy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Homework should be illegal. There needs to be someone who stands up for children's rights, and says listen, enough is enough. If you can't teach a kid in the 8 hours every week day you have, every day, what makes you think piling on the homework is going to make up for that. Kids have so much homework these days, they have no chance to learn all the other real world skills they need to know at home. They are robbed away from their family and indoctrinated in state institutions to crank out good little pliant robots trained to follow orders and fear authority.
I hated school. I hated it with a passion. Why? Because when I came home, I still wasn't free, I had that damn ***** hanging over my head, which took up most of the afternoon. By the time I was done, I was tired. The only thing you had to look forward to was weekends, and even then you weren't free, they heaped on more of that crap because you "had the whole weekend". Son of a bitch.
There's not much time to be chores around the house, and learn vital skills like how to cook beyond using a microwave, and do all the thousand other things needing to be done around a farm. Twelve years of that slavery, and when I was done, there was no way in hell I was going back. Finally, I was free. Or so I thought.
Public school is nothing but training losers to join the military, because schools teach no skills that make you a valuable employee which are marketable. Regimentation, beating out creative thinking from you, rote learning, working doing absolutely stupid pointless tasks for absolutely no pay, because you are "ordered to do it".
School is not a benign institution, my friend. Its called 'compulsory' for a reason. - darkbird, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7competition is good for some people and some things... like a sport, competition is good. War: competition is bad.
- tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Anonymous, are you discriminating against me just because I'm sensitive? You stupid macho American!
/sarcasm - bardamuclichy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@crashflow
War without honor is barbarism.
Regards,
A combat vet, who has taken POW's before(as opposed to murdering surrendering enemy soldiers).
Anyway, in regards to the person you replied to... competition being bad in war is rather idiotic. That's the whole point! - AF-Geek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Ummm... Wrong story, dude.
Maybe that's another thing we need to teach our kids: Read before posting (a.k.a. "listen before talking"). - emehrkay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5look under practical
- Iconwolf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Agree. I didn't get to read the site yet because it's already down, but rule number one should be when posting to Digg make sure you can handle the Digg.
- eggo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8I agree, the "everybody wins" method just teaches kids to only do enough to get by, never to excel.
- EricAnderton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Seriously. And I thought it was a huge WTF that they didn't teach us basic auto maintenance (when to have someone change your oil, etc.) in driver's ed? At a minimum the financial education stuff should be mandatory - it was an elective in my high-school.
- Singularitarian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4We need MORE competition in schools. Competition motivates like nothing else.
For example, suppose it were possible to work ahead and finish a course early, before the end of the year. Suppose then that it were possible to begin the next course early, begin it immediately without waiting for next year. Then you would have smart kids competing to advance the fastest, and you would see lots of fifteen year olds finishing the high school curriculum. - chicagodigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4What the *****? If you're a parent, shouldn't *you* as the parent be teaching your kids these skills. That's part of the problem...pawning off the responsibility of raising your kids to some one else so that you're not responsible when your kids have no life skills.
If you expect schools to teach your kids these skills, don't be surprised when someone else steps up and says we should also teach "morals" in school. -
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