Life skills

[BCMtnHound]

I’ll second basic courtesy skills, and patience. Would be nice if more people practiced better situational awareness.
Then add high school literacy, health & nutrition, and STEM. An appreciation of art doesn’t hurt, even if you struggle to paint by numbers or strum a ukulele.
Oh, and be able, even happy, to be totally cut off from society and its trappings for a day or two.

[Woodsy]

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-Check whether a firearm is loaded; know how to load / unload it
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def on list.
Dont care your oponion on guns, your kid may get handed one and needs to know how to handle it.
I learned on bolt action 22s when I was 10

[Timberridge]

def on list.
Dont care your oponion on guns, your kid may get handed one and needs to know how to handle it.
I learned on bolt action 22s when I was 10

In the Middle East and parts of Africa they know how to break down an AK47 by 10.

[SB]

Ride hard

Shoot straight

Tell the truth

[SB]

In the Middle East and parts of Africa they know how to break down an AK47 by 10.

I could field strip and re assemble the AR15 with my eyes closed at 10.

[SB]

turn a screwdriver

Righty tighty

Lefty lucy

[Timberridge]

Make a screwdriver. Too many young people use OJ from concentrate with pulp in it. This is just careless and ignorant.

[Conundrum]

Recognize who you can cuss in front of and whom you shouldn’t.

[mall walker]

Make a screwdriver. Too many young people use OJ from concentrate with pulp in it. This is just careless and ignorant.

lol and yes

[Timberridge]

I could field strip and re assemble the AR15 with my eyes closed at 10.

Boy scouts?

[dan_pdx]

def on list.
Dont care your oponion on guns, your kid may get handed one and needs to know how to handle it.
I learned on bolt action 22s when I was 10

Exactly. I lean progressive on gun control, but I still think it's a great idea for a kid to know how to check if one is loaded or not.

[gravitylover]

Do laundry
Plunge a toilet
Know how to determine which breaker blew when they ran the microwave, toaster, coffee maker and had the oven on at the same time.

[riser4]

Wax ring on a toilet.

[SB]

Boy scouts?

No

[MakersTeleMark]

Speak English without connectors, such as Um, Like, etc.

Spellcheck.

Suck it up.

[EWG]

Deliver on a promise.

[snoqpass]

Use your mirrors
Back up a trailer


How I put myself through high school and college, although I am much better on an excavator.

I spent a lot of hours on a D7 pulling a scraper during summer vacation to earn money for the school year

[KyleLanTheman]

How to cook a steak

How to fight

[MakersTeleMark]

Deliver on a promise.

Show up on time, or on deadline.

[jono]

Whineless endurance. A little short term suffering shouldn't have to be miserable.

[Woodsy]

Wrestling is a life time skill.
Been saying it for years.

[RootSkier]

How to find good spam-free porn after the demise of Tumblr.

[berko]

Spend time alone

[I've seen black diamonds!]

Tell real news from fake.

[Woodsy]

Boy scouts?

4H