We all learned so much in school that we haven’t used in day to day life - I mean when have we ever touched a Bunsen burner since school? But none of us was learned the basics of life and how to navigate it - things like:
- Showing how to do basic meals, cooking pasta safety, use of kitchen appliances correctly
- paying bills
- what a mortgage is, how to deal with contracts and paperwork
- how to meter readings
- change a lightbulb, basic tool use in the home
- how to check fire alarms
- credit card education
- managing money, spreadsheets to manage them
- insurances like life insurance and what ones you need
- education on abusive relationship signs
- things like peer pressure
- how to write formal letters/emails
I think we learn so many things that mean nothing when we leave school. If you teach kids basic life skills from a young age, it would make kids a lot more well rounded and less anxious in the ‘real world’ when it comes to managing money and not getting in debt. Even learning things like the warning signs of abusive relationships to young and impressionable teens as I think if I heard the signs then, I would have know what to look out for to prevent myself from getting in one as an adult.
I remember being in the real world and not knowing how to have good money management and I’m 28 and have no idea how to change a lightbulb. Even education for kids to learn about their bodies, that their outie bellybutton is normal and so are their stretch marks - so they don’t go into adulthood thinking their bodies are imperfect.
Children deserve more than Shakespeare or how to play football in pe. They deserve a kick start to life