Do not pay for drugs in advance.
Have to get the dealer to answer their phone first.
The importance of savings and investments, especially when you’re young.
And also that it’s okay not to like someone, but really fucking not okay to make you not liking someone the other person’s problem.
One more vote financial literacy.
Credit wcore, how loans and credit cards work.
And knowing gambling only works for the House.In math class when learning statistics we learned “the law of large numbers” , how with enough samples the average approaches the probability. Then applied it to two real world examples, gambling (lottery and roulette) and insurance. The math was the same, and the house always wins because the house deals in large numbers.
The takeaway is that gambling is stupid because the house always wins.
But also, statistics do not apply to individuals, so insurance is not stupid. At least not for life-altering expenses, like home, medical and traffic.
Just for a simple tiblit: House always wins in roulette because if you bet every number your win will be 1-2-3 tokens short. Depends on 0/00/000 tables.
There is no hidden cheat in it.
The only fair bet in a casino is the odds on the craps. But you have to be already in with a disadvantageous bet: Come/Dont come.
How to protect your mate from a bear.
“Stop, drop and roll”, I think. Makes sense, as your mate gets to run away.
So many daily small thzate kinda impossible to teach a whole class, but are easy to teach a single child (source: I work in a school):
- reading the clock. May sound weird, but some kids get it really early and quickly, some take more time. Thus pretty frustrating to teach the whole class
- tying shoes (I know too many kids with 8 or 9 years old who can’t tie a knot, shoes are a good starter)
- generally small motor skills (crafts, crochet, weaving, whatever you want…)
And the one thing that school cannot teach and is also very difficult for parents: questioning authority
Small motor skills - you know what’s SUPER good at teaching this? Writing in cursive, it’s why it needs to stay in schools.
All the things listed are also easily teachable to groups - group exercises/worksheets and practice for clocks, tying shoes used to be considered standard to be taught at preschool/kindergarten it’s a matter of practice and cursive
What’s your experience with groups of children? You can show stuff. But repetition and practice are not a great thing in a school setting. That needs to happen outside of school. I’ve worked with far over thousand kids and worked in elementary schools for over 10 years now. Yes you can “teach” the things. But the kids need time and space for their own pace at repeating and practicing them
And the one thing that school cannot teach and is also very difficult for parents: questioning authority
I’d widen it to: questioning ideals and argumentation
questioning authority
Parent: make sure to question authority
Kid: why?
Parent: listen here you little shit…
In my case social skills. I was the typical nerd. About 10 years after I finished school I figured out I could learn to get along better with people just like I learnt how to do complicated maths.
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.
Emotional regulation and understanding. Most people never learn this either at schools or elsewhere.
This. Mindfulness and meta-learning are the number one skill.
Came here for this
I just read a book called Lost in School by Ross Greene that proposes teaching emotional and behavioral skills like regulating your emotions in school. The idea is that it will lead indirect positive effects on things like scholastic results, aside from the direct benefits. It’s without a doubt the best course literature I’ve read.
If anyone is doing something that you don’t like, or that hurts, you yell as loud as you can in your big girl/boy voice “stop that I don’t like that”
You just made me appreciate how fortunate I am to never have been bullied in school. I had it coming for me as a neurodivergent
How life works in general, things that you’re required to do or expected to understand as an adult. For example, different types of bank accounts, credit card fees, how credit scores work and what they’re used for, how government and elections work and how these impact people’s actual lives (beyond just submitting your vote and naming the branches of government), how to read a food label and why they should (this might get a small section in health class), how health insurance works, etc.
Basically just how our society is structured and what that means for the individual.
Consent
Perhaps ethics
Also help them figure out what the fuck is wrong with them before it destroys their life.
That being agreeable is one of the greatest cheats in life. No matter how much you know on something, or how smart you are, if your personality sucks you won’t get very far.
So many talented and skilled people I know failed because they just would not work with other people very well. It’s extremely rare to be an individual talent skilled enough to overcome that barrier, so at least work on yourself a little bit so you don’t die from pride.
This one goes way farther than people realize. My father built a great career as an engineer with a large network of people who would hire him in an instant. He’s just nice, polite, and helps the people around him.
I’m very similar to him and it’s worked very well for me too. I might be stupid as fuck sometimes, but I own it and I’m nice. I’m somewhat early in my career but I can already see what my behavior gets me.
Oh yeah being a friendly and helpful engineer sets you apart lol. It’s done great things for me
How to be kind.
Git
I teach all of my kids that “no” is a complete sentence. I want them to be very conscious of consent, but I also want them all to respect their own wishes.
Unrelated, I also teach them all how to throw a good punch and keep their god damned hands up and chin down as soon as I think they have enough self control not to abuse it.
‘No’ is grounds for suspension at Bede Polding College, Australia.
Obligatory fuck Catholic schools, and the fascist teachers running them.
More for people entering adulthood, but one thing school life never taught me was how to deal with uncertainty and structurelessness. How to keep moving when you don’t know where you’re going.
Structure for my personal life at every level is still a skill I’m struggling with at age 45.
I feel like if I had been taught to plan my day and held accountable for it at an early age, it would come much more natural to me now at the micro and macro level.
Instead I just blame my lack of ability to organize on my work schedule, which truthfully only fluctuates by a couple hours at most.
It took me years to notice that I was spending much of my free time on ‘stretchy’ activities that stretched to expand whatever amount of time I had free. Turned out that they were dopamine traps and I have ADHD
