to ask you what you haven't explicitly spelled out to your kids and realised they don't know how to do?

[cremantsupernova]

There are lots of threads on MN about what your kids need to be able to do by the time they leave home (drive/life admin/budget/cook etc) in addition to school basics.
But what about the rest of it. Mine are generally kind and polite and usually remember pleases and thank yous
I was with one of my DC the other day and they ran ahead through a door and let it shut in the person behind's face. And I realised that I prob haven't stopped and told them that this is what you do.
Made me worry what else i haven't told them -
Any other examples?

There are so many things I think I was expected to know but really didn't have much of a clue about as a young adult. Cooking was one as although my parents were very competent cooks, they never really showed us how to do it. I taught myself as I think they at least instilled some interest in me. Using an oven. Changing a light bulb. How to do "small talk". Dealing with unkind peers.
I was basically raised without gaining much self confidence. I try to be much more explicit to explain things to my children. My son is autistic so I have to use very plain straightforward language. For example he doesn't see the point of writing Christmas cards at all but I had to explain it's polite to reply to the friends who made the effort to send him one and it gives them a happy feeling. He can make his own toast at 7 (I know, not ground breaking but for him it's an achievement). I try to teach both my children some of my cooking skills too.