Seniors: there is probably a teacher lurking inside all of us. What do you feel you could teach others?

How thoughtful of you to take an interest in people you don't even know. You must be a great friend to have.

I really enjoy giving counsel to young girls (the Singles category) who are beginning to date and have boyfriends. The thing is, is that they are so immature and unteachable that they don't want good advice, they just want someone to agree with their very poor choices and aggressive behavior. The Marriage 'N Divorce people are more mature and have attended the University of Hard Knocks, so they are a little more open minded. Even though you may give good counsel, most people don't want it, they want to "rush in where angels fear to trod." And pay hard earned money to a Pro who can say the same thing I said, except they say it more tactfully.

I was surprised at getting a TC award in the Religion section; it usually depresses me to go there because of the hateful trolls but I do it anyway sometimes.

Well, first off you need the right student.

My husband opened up 3 machine shops in his lifetime and sort of thought he could teach his son( our son) how to run a machine.

No such luck.

My husband is a master machinist, I do mean a master, he can make virtually anything with the right blue prints and good equipment.

Our son is all thumbs when it comes to doing any handy work, makes my husband cry to know he couldn't pass on any of his knowledge to his son.

So with the right student, I could teach how to cut hair, do nails and deal blackjack, baccarat or Pia Gow poker.

Roulette, Big 6, Hold em fold em and Carribbean Poker are also subjects I could teach if I refreshed my memory a bit. What would the world be without casino games?( better off)

I could also teach how to count back cash money without using a calculator and how to see how an outift looks on you before buying it.

How to shop for a bargin and when something is a good deal or not.

I could also teach how to leash train a dog, although it has been awhile since I did that.

How to drive a manual transmission car .

I haven't yet mastered how to boil a 3 min egg. Seems they are either too runny or overdone, that is still something I would like to learn to do correctly.

My 81 year old neighbor wants to teach me to knit but as I don't speak her language I am not willing to make her spend the time with me.

Many years ago, probably more than 30, there was a T.V. programme in the U.K. the title of which I think was "On the Move". It was about the general public helping those people who needed help with literacy and number skills. I would have absolutely loved to have been involved in that at the time but was bringing up a large young family of my own who needed all my spare time. It is still something that would interest me but, in addition to that, I am involved in quite a few crafts and the ones I enjoy the most are jewellery making and creative card making. If I knew people who were interested in learning either of those crafts I'd love to help but there are many T.V. programmes about those these days and classes held in community centres.

I encourage my own children to learn to do useful things but also things that just give them pleasure. The young today certainly need help in home-making skills because their own parents lacked these skills also. I think that we seniors were the last generation to have 'proper' woodwork, cookery, needlework, homecraft etc. classes in school. Any mistakes we made at home were corrected by knowledgeable parents who took an interest in our school work. For many youngsters that no longer happens and they just flounder.

Bad Leggy, he would have a buddy if he visited my shed, Lily. Being a bungalow dwelling, my residence has two storage rooms. From time to time there are viewers. A fieldmouse has a nest in the outer porch room, I just let it's. It appears to sleep quite a bit, and simplest disappears once I go in there for backyard instruments. It is a lovable little lodger. The inner storage facility shops my family cleaners and vacuum cleaner etc., together with one as an alternative giant incey wincey. I purchased a product referred to as Spider stop from the corporation which puts catalogues by way of the door (betterware) it's a spray that smells of chestnuts and cloves. You spray it around the entrances to your house, doors, home windows, it does not kill, however is supposed to position them off moving in. It does seem to work, but now that i have used the stuff, the spiders which might be here will not go the spray discipline to leave. One other deterrent is put a Conker in the room where they're and so they (at the least in concept) leave dwelling. Hope that your spiders all hide and do not scare you any longer!

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I find that a great many of our younger people don't need to be shown anything because they 'already know how to do everything' - sarcasm intended. Actually they seem to be one extreme or the other and either their attitude makes them unteachable or they are so lacking in confidence because no-one has bothered with them before. I have recently been trying to show a young woman how to knit - just simple garter stitch. She becomes so frustrated because she is not really catching on to how it's done. She holds the needles incorrectly, pulls the wool far too tight, drops stitches (in fact she does all the same things I did when I started to learn aged 7 - but she's 24). She has nothing to be ashamed of as she is trying hard and many won't try anything new or useful.

For as long as she is prepared to keep trying I will persevere to teach her but it is actually very hard for both of us. It is good for all of us to learn something new but not to the point where it makes someone really upset. If she chooses to give up I will try to suggest something different which she finds easier. We all need to succeed at something and get a pat on the back. Encouragement works wonders.

I would try to teach them to see the other side of a story. Not always is a miserable face or a harsh word towards you actually meant for you. That person could be going through a very hard time, give them the benefit of the doubt. Have patience. be tolerant and learn to forgive. I'm not saying be walked over, just be a little humble and remember there's a reason for everything. No matter what life throws at you, you can learn something from it that will make you a better person.

Good nutritional cooking, table etiquette and definitely good manners all round Peggy.

I'll leave the academic stuff to their teachers which seem to be doing a good job so far.

If my dear mother was alive she would taught some of the crafts which seem to be disappearing and she would have thoroughly enjoyed doing so.

I agree that today's youth are sadly lacking in basic skills mainly I think because these games machines have taken over, which is such a shame as they're only existing in a virtual world.

You know how the saying goes.

Those that can, do.

Those that can't, teach.

As for helping out the younger generation with basic repairs, crafts, literacy, life skills and so on, fine.

Providing I am paid a stonking salary.

I'm damned if I am going to give away a lifetime's hard-won experience and knowledge for nothing.

Selfish?

Not really.

Kindness and charity and good intent doesn't pay the rent or put food on the table.

I have been retired from work for 3 years but was back in the office on Monday teaching a new employee one of the jobs I did.

I used to job share with another woman, who was as much use as a chocolate teapot. Recently she just up and left, giving my ex boss no notice. He has just started a new employee but she didn't know how to do one particular job, so I got a phone call asking if I would pop in and go over it with her. I was happy to do it and felt quite pleased that he felt he could still call on me.

I went through the job with her and she picked it up very quickly.