The Saturday Morning Secret My Parents Never Told Us 🏆

[kathydurow]

Wonder if this was the same family as the "apology letter" which addressed responsibility accountability, empathy & rectification. And provided a great tool for interpersonal communication in later life.

[MummaLlama]

On sundays, dad would pull out his first aid book and kit. My sister and I would flip a coin for who got to be the “victim” and who got to be the first aider. We’d open the book to a certain page and proceed to do first aid. It was something so small and it was so long ago, but that first aid book is still in my brain, more than 20 years later. I have a daughter of my own now, and even though I’m not first aid qualified, I’ve always REMEMBERED. This is precious to me. Dad just wanted us to be able to look after ourselves and our families. I know how to do first aid for snakes & spider bites (important because I live near the bush in Australia) I know how to deal with shock and bleeding and imbedded objects. I know how to stay calm in emergencies and keep people calm. Even if you don’t get officially certified, get a book, get a kit and teach your kids because one day, it could be a difference between life & death. Thankfully, I haven’t needed this skill much, but it has been needed & I will be grateful to my dad until my last breath, that he helped me gain this knowledge.

[Lopitra]

Who knew turning learning into games would make learning more efficient.

[randomguy]

This is why, as a therapist, play therapy is amazing, you can teach kids amazing skills all through their primary language, play

[seannalette]

So my family did something similar for a while. All the chores were on a white board, and we had magnetic name tags for chores. We could volunteer, be assigned or discuss and negotiate. It meant mom and dad had help, we learned how to keep clean house, mediate the tough ones, and work together on the nasty or problematic ones

[johnathangreay]

"The worst wars will be at home."

-Sun Tzu

[jesuschrist]

my dad taught us to use money like this haha. if anyone is familiar with sea glass, we use to gather it like no tomorrow so my dad wrote a money value of every different colour of glass. anything we wanted to eat we had to buy with said glass money and after a couple weeks my siblings and i were setting up stalls for each other to buy things. looking back now it’s a very valuable lesson but during the time it was just a fun game

[poisonedivysaur]

It's not a tradition more of a punishment. Back when I was a kid, my grandmother made me learn how to sew whenever I got in trouble. As a teen into my 20s, i made a battle hoodie. I sew everything by myself. Now, as an adult, i know how to sew all my clothes in case my clothes tear. My line of work it happens a lot. So i learned a valuable skill cause i couldn't behave. Haha.

[PhantomBrat]

Our mother and stepdad had taught us how to make simple food on the stove, making it a rule that ALL us kids had to be in the kitchen when one of us wanted something like ramen or scrambled eggs. I was 7, the youngest was 5. (They did watch us from the living room just in case). Snacking was allowed until our mother started dinner.

Our favorite activities were sitting on our steps with sandwich fixings and watching our neighbor's son whining at his backdoor for food or watching our step cousin (same age as me) whine that he wanted ramen but didn't know how to make it. By the time I was 13, we knew how to make things like burgers, roasts, and other things with minimal supervision.

[andreajohnson]

Would it be plagiarizing if I start using this for my future kids cause this is honestly genius

[blackbear]

I need a similar one for an only child 😭 I only plan on having one kid in the future, and I wanna give it my all to raise them into fine person

[BacterialDomain]

As a bacterium, no-one taught me life-skills. They are instinct.

[feychild]

I need a better discription for this method so I can implement it please.

[bewbathis_]

One of six kids. My mom made very detailed binders showing how to clean everything on a checklist with pictures. We had to complete the checklist, sign it, and then wait to get grounded anyways for something else lol

[Andrew.finney.]

green = free choice
red = chores
blue =family activities

[musicprospers]

I need more tips like this. My boyfriend has kids im debating if i want to have (bio) kids of my own. I need advice on how to make learning into games i feel bad when i know I don't understand kids the way they need to be understood

[ALoverAndAFighter-wbut]

Wish my parents thought of this when I was a child. Op's parents think outside the box🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉.

[vmmsdark]

My mother thought us a game, it started with several piles of colored chips, red were the more numerous, yellow the next with slightly less chips, blue were only a few and only one green... the objective trade 10 of reds for one yellow, 10 yellow for one blue and 10 blues for the green, you get red chips by trowing a dice, first to get the green wins... after we learnt to count fine on base 10 my mother changed the base, sometimes up to 15 chips to trade up, sometimes down to 3 for a quick game... long story short binary, hexadeciman, octal, etc.. every notation non base 10 were really easy during my math classes when my peers strugled to grasp the concept

[pradeeptiupadhyay]

Its giving "the world is quite here"

[seeingthepattern]

My kids turned out to be fine adults, but, damn, I wish I'd thought of this.