To be furious at this article?

[CatThiefKeith]

Article linked to our local paper listing 50 things that lazy mums are failing to teach their children.

Presumably their fathers can't teach them anything because their penises get in the way!

https://www.mykentfamily.co.uk/primary/the-top-50-forgotten-skills-120839/

My mum never taught me how to apply make-up. She never used it herself. Shall I sue her?

I have actually taught my children how to reheel shoes but then I am a cobbler!

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Nasty sexist article, most women are too busy earning a living to darn fucking socks.

Come on DD. I need to show you the essential life skill of recycling vintage furniture. Don't let Dad in on the secret though. It's something for only women to know. 😉😂

Seriously though, the article is based on research by Addis according to the fourth paragraph, so basically an advert. I will therefore treat it with all the respect I usually reserve for cheesy commercials, by forgetting about it 5 seconds after clicking off this thread.

Calvin #everydaysexism

Crikey. Think I can only do about half the things on there.

Tend to think this kind of thing is just a bit of fun though so hardly going to boycott them!

I darn socks. And occasionally tights. It's actually very satisfying.

I've also taught all the dc to darn including ds.

I've complained to Kent Online and posted on Addis's Facebook page.

Talisin with a mop! We also used to Hoover them up and throw the bag out the window my dad would rescue the clip the following day (he worked 12 hour night shifts mom did days when he changed to days they were forced to interact and got divorced 😂)

Erm, it gets worse: www.mykentfamily.co.uk/real-life/revealed-the-personality-traits-you-118538/

Traits inherited from your father: academic talent, intelligence, sense of humour...
Traits inherited from your mother: baking/cooking skills, dancing ability, tendency to worry...

Recycling soap just means putting your slivers together to make one big one again

Am I the only woman on MN who admits to actual darning skills? I blame a 70s boarding school upbringing - if you wanted your woolly tights to last from September to December then you really really needed to be able to darn or suffer chilblains on your knees. My mother didn't teach me though - Kathryn from the lower 5th did. I wouldn't darn woolly tights nowadays, but I do still fix holes in favourite jumpers.

Furious? Really? It's a stupid, badly written article based on a stupid, badly written piece of "research".
It's a load of wanky nonsense. We're not not passing down how to darn socks because we're too lazy or busy, but because no fucker darns socks anymore.

And you're as bad, OP, you misrepresented the article in your op, you're as bad as they are. It doesn't mention anyone being too lazy, now does it?

I was teaching my 6yo DD to darn socks and hem a jumper at the weekend...
I mostly bin socks when they're knackered but when they're your favourite Little Mermaid socks that DH bought from Japan just for you, the sewing needle kind of has to come out.

I would have a list more like;
Make a basic white sauce
Budget for the month
Work out the APR on a loan
How to perform a Boolean search
How to rewire a plug
How to measure up for carpet and wallpaper/paint because I'm shit at it

According to that bullshit list I'm DS's dad AND his mum.

Oh, yeah. And of course ALL men like football don't they. It's like one of The Commandments or something

So were not teachingour kids to be a wife from the 50's id say its a good thing..

SUPREMECommander I admit to darning skills - very useful for the elbows of favourite jumpers and cardigans when they wear thin. My grandmother taught me, rather than my mum.

Winter, does the opening paragraph not sound even a little patronising and like it's is blaming mothers for not passing their knowledge down?

Millions of kids are missing out on basic life skills because mums aren’t passing down their know-how – including letter writing and how to sew, according to new research.
Or how about....

“Perhaps as the research suggests, mums are so busy working and looking after their kids – among other things – they understandably struggle to find the time to teach them what they know.”

The 'Perhaps' and the 'understandably' add a metaphorical quizzical raise of the eyebrow in my opinion.

Fuck recycling. Grandma made her own soap!

Bollocks. Hope dd isn't relying on me to teach her how to bold paragraphs on mumsnet when she grows up!

I'm 53 and my 76 yr old mother showed me how to clean silver this Xmas . I tried google but didn't have the required silver foil...

Do you think she should have shown me about 45 years ago? Shocking . I hope both DDs were watching so I don't have to pass it on.

CatThief Well done for complaining. The sexist bastards.

I darn socks.

In my defence: some time ago I decided I was tired of trying to match socks up, so went for a particular style which was reasonably priced in BHS and bought a load. Eventually they stopped stocking them, but I found a similar style somewhere else, they then stopped but I tracked down similar ones online. But I'm neurotic that that source will disappear, so every so often I have a burst of attacking the ones that are wearing out with a darning needle. My mum taught me how ages ago, and I find it quite therapeutic creating a neat patch where there was a hole or extremely thin wool before.

It didn't make me furious, it made me laugh!

Oh and I've had a talk with my mother for failing to teach me how to recycle vintage furniture. A skill I'll never be able to pass onto my daughters now.

I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously