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REVEALED: Millennials lack basic survival skills compared to older generations YOUNG people are clueless when it comes to basic survival skills
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[ link to www.express.co.uk] A survey shows millennials are missing out on practical skills such as map reading or fishing, compared to their grandparents’ generation. More than half of young adults were unable to tie a single knot and 40 per cent had never swum in open water, despite Britain being an island nation. The poll, conducted ahead of the London Boat Show, found simple life skills have been left behind with advances in technology. Researchers also found that most people under the age of 44 prefer to use Google Maps and Sat Navs to get around, but half of over-55s stick to a paper street map. Just a third of the 2,000 surveyed know how to spark a flame by natural means, with less than a third having caught their own fish or seafood. They spent their childhoods either at school, or glued to a TV; what do you expect? Even though I played hard outside as a kid/teern, I'm now 30 years old; my dad is a mechanic and he never showed me a thing about cars. I had to teach myself to change the brake pads. He did instill a lot of negativity in me however, coming home and drinking before often going into mentally abusive rampages. I believe I hate working more than most people because of him as well. When I was young he would often ask me if I wanted to go to work for him today; I would say no but I never told him why. It was because of how tired/angry he would be when he got off; why would I want that? Anyways... berating such a generation isn't helping anyone; not that those who do so give a fuck really. Perhaps if previous generations weren't such utter sell-outs we might be better off. You think that's not how your Dad learned? That's the problem, 'expecting' others to show you how to do every little thing. Quit blaming your upbringing. If my mother did that, she'd have ended up like every one of her siblings...drunk, on welfare and in an abusive relationship and abusing us. It's called strength of character and not using what you were dealt as an excuse to hold you back but as a catapult to move you forward. That's the difference between those who succeed in life and those who don't. But its okay to 'expect' kids to know survival skills when its not relevant to them at all in the society they were raised in? Either teach them or be quiet.
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