I woke up feeling somewhat better and thinking, like many people have, that schools should teach a bunch of essential skills that everyone should know.\u00a0 Many of these things are normally taught by parents, which I presume is the ungiven reason for its absence in the curriculum.
\nHowever, I’d like to point out that not everyone has their parents, and even fewer people have good ones. And even the good ones can’t always know everything that belongs in this list.<\/p>\n
I’ve been thinking for a long time how odd it is that in middle school, everyone was taught how to use a sewing machine, even though I only know one person who even owns<\/em> a sewing machine.\u00a0 40 years later, they’re still teaching this to my<\/em> kids.<\/p>\n So, in this evolving post, I’m going to collect some things in one place that I think would be more valuable and better investment of time.<\/p>\n The first item that came to mind to commit to the list is\u00a0 “When to go to the doctor.”<\/p>\n You should try to know where your food comes from, and how to shop for groceries, to look at expiration dates, to read labels, about cooking safety, to buy locally when you can.<\/p>\n How to mail things.\u00a0 Most people waste so much money because they don’t know how to mail things.\u00a0 Everyone should know what a letter, a large envelope, and a package is, and what options there are to mail packages (including the online-only options).\u00a0 Learn how to use the post office website and the paypal Multi-order shipping tool to save money.<\/p>\n People do not evaluate risk well.\u00a0 It’s important to try to do a better evaluation of risk based on actual facts. For example, just because you are personally in control of your car does not mean it’s safer to drive than to fly.<\/p>\n Don’t ever use your teeth as a tool like to strip wire.\u00a0 You need them and they will<\/em> crack later in your life if you do this.<\/p>\n Copyright law.\u00a0 Everyone should have a basic understanding of copyright, and who owns what.\u00a0 Unless you are paid to do it, or you relinquish your rights, when you create something, you own it.\u00a0 I’ll elaborate on this later.<\/p>\n If you’re eating something that’s too hot, don’t inhale to cool it off.\u00a0 Exhale only, or you could end up with the food stuck in your throat and choke to death.<\/p>\n Sometimes stores will sell things in a big package that costs more than two smaller ones.\u00a0\u00a0 Look for the latest expiration date on anything that you buy.<\/p>\n I think that sex education in schools should be augmented with dating and relationship ed.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, people who are inexperienced at relationships but who are rejected will typically internalize that there is something wrong with them.\u00a0 Rejection is simply a fact with no message.<\/p>\n Learn how to protect yourself from spam and spoof emails.\u00a0 Don’t click on links that say you “won” something.\u00a0 They harvest your email address and then spam you forever.\u00a0 Logan’s hotmail got compromised this way, and the next day he had 2000 spams and had to permanently set it to Exclusive mode.<\/p>\n Before cashing personal checks, call the issuing bank and ask them to confirm that the funds are in the account.\u00a0 Otherwise you may end up paying a hefty bounced check fee — for a check you didn’t even write.\u00a0 Ruint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up feeling somewhat better and thinking, like many people have, that schools should teach a bunch of essential skills that everyone should know.\u00a0 Many of these things are normally taught by parents, which I presume is the ungiven reason for its absence in the curriculum. However, I’d like to point out that not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolving-post","category-thoughts","category-unfinished"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}