Dd has been raised to be very independent and has been able to cook a meal, run a wash load (and dry and put it away), change bed etc since she was 13!
But I was also a mature student over a decade ago now at uni last time I went and I was genuinely shocked at some (not all but certainly a significant minority!) who couldn't even bloody boil a pan of pasta! And it wasn't always out of laziness, some of them their parents were ridiculously over protective not wanting 17 year olds to deal with boiling water or sharp knives! Completely Ridiculous!
I ended up teaching a few of them BASIC cooking skills (I didn't offer! I was invited to dinner, the person who invited me got in a kerfuffle and panicked and yelled for help! I rescued the meal, this was in a "halls" house and other housemates noticed, next thing I'm getting asked all sorts! I ended up jotting down basic cheap "recipes").
I became a student rep too and so many were really struggling financially, not out of just being unnecessarily profligate, but because they hadn't been taught to budget (some had never had either a paying job or organised allowance/pocket money so they'd no idea how to manage what seemed to them a fortune when they got their full terms SLC payment in one go! Thought they were rich and spent accordingly), as well as pointing them in right direction re serious debt, I went through some budgeting basics with them.
How long does £X need to last me therefore that gives me £X per week I can spend.
Not buying the branded groceries they were used to having at home, usually not realising these were expensive and cheaper versions were available.
Bulk buying - I advised those who were interested in organising themselves to have Costco membership and bulk buy eg toilet rolls out of a house kitty.
Re laundry, one once came into a lecture flustered having done the old "turned everything pink" thing, I asked if it were all still wet? She said yes, I pointed her in direction of colour run remover and told her to buy some cheap colour catchers at the same time. After she'd used it she was so wonderfully thankful it was like I'd parted the seas! Got a wee box of chocs for that one 😃
BUT WHY aren't their parents teaching them? Aside from homes where there's issues of perhaps ill or very busy parents etc (although tbh kids in these homes I've found DO learn cos they're having to help out) this is surely part of preparing your child to become a self sufficient independent adult!
The parents referenced in the op - the time they took to make the videos could SURELY have been better used to teach in person in a way the child can ask questions etc?
"It's less complex than an Xbox" ah now there I admit defeat! Wouldn't even know how to turn one on! 😂😂
Ineedaholidaynow - only me and dd, dd does her own has done for several years. We don't have loads of clothes but when you include towels, bedding etc there's always enough for a full load even though we each do our own. Just don't wash particularly frequently. I do maybe 2 loads a week.
"Also with homework and clubs, DS would not have time to do washing and ironing during the week." We don't iron (both disabled, I find if clothes hung and tidied away in a timely fashion they don't need ironing anyway). But even washing takes all of 5/10 mins to put a load on, automatic machine does the work while you do whatever, and then 15/20 mins to unload and hang. Dd also had homework and clubs etc and managed.
Idiotical - similar reason why dd started doing her own - I got fed up being in the wrong for washing the "wrong" but totally identical school jumper! Argh!