Teaching teens about housework and organisation.

[FindingMeno]

So, I am endeavouring to teach my teens household and life management tips and skills that I have picked up, so they don't have to find out themselves.
Not the obvious, like hoovering and dusting, but things like intermittent tasks, paperwork and finances, the right product for the right task, extra tips, etc.

For example:

Monthly tasks might be stuff like checking smoke alarms and flea treatment for pets. Less frequent tasks might be stuff like clearing gutters and jet-washing paths.

Tips on filing and finances, such as what to keep and having sinking funds.

Right products for tasks, such as wd40 for squeaky hinges.

Extra tips, such as having a power cut box and storing like with like.

Any pearls of wisdom, whether it be routines, tips, or any life and household management advice welcome to create

a comprehensive curriculum to work from 😊

Have you done the fuse box and stop cock?
And how to read the meters?

A lovely endeavour but also let them know they can Google manuals and YouTube is a great resource for DIY.

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How to unblock a drain / toilet.

Deep clean a bathroom/ toilet.

Sounds like a fab idea! Mine would have a Kevin and Perry style meltdown if I even suggest hanging a wet towel up!

I'm doing the same with mine. I didn't learn how to do anything until I left home at 19, I couldn't even do basic cooking or put a duvet into a cover. I wouldn't have known how to re set a trip switch or find a stop cock. I didn't even know how to pay a bill. It's so important to teach kids this stuff young as of course life skills aren't covered in school. First life skill I taught my kids was 999 and some basic first aid, how to carry scissors. Then as they got older cool, sew, trips, stop cock, unblock the toilet (that was an hilarious hour with us all in marigolds 🤣), hang curtains, bit of gardening, catching spiders and releasing them in the house, looking after each other, going to the bank, shopping, cleaning, hoovering, mine loved hoovering when thet were little not so much now! Washing! I didn't know how to work a washing machine till I was 20?!! The list goes on. Teach them young, build it up. Once my daughter looked over my shoulder when I was doing online banking and thought we were rush as I'd just been paid, after I stopped laughing i explained to her about direct debits,. mortgage payments, food, fuel, life insurance etc, after that she was like 'how is there anything left then for fun'?! Ahh you see, that's how they learn, manage your finances well love I said and then save what's left for fun, mine have never gone without so she learnt alot that day.