You Are Failing Your Kids By Not Teaching These 10 Life Skills

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:26.6	Dr. Laura.
0:27.4	It is a good article.
0:30.2	But you know, articles have to be a certain short length because these days with people texting,
0:34.8	they can't keep their attention for more than five seconds.
0:37.5	So. with people texting, they can't keep their attention for more than five seconds. So longer articles are hard to come by.
0:45.6	But this was in YourTango.com.
0:48.8	Very good article.
0:50.8	Written by Zeta, Sl-sla-scorn.
0:57.0	Slabicorn. Zeta Slabicorn. I mean, you have to work to find a name like that. You have to travel far and wide.
1:04.0	And the title caught my attention, so I decided to go through some of the concerns.
1:14.7	Zeta, I think it's a female, brought kids in the 1980s learned 10 life skills that modern parents have pretty much wiped out of children today. Boy, I've been
1:33.3	hitting this drum, haven't I? So it starts out by making a statement.
1:45.6	Overall, kids from the 1980s lived much more independently than kids do today.
1:53.3	Why?
1:55.3	Why?
1:57.5	Because they entered the world without over-protective parents.
2:02.4	They were expected to mature and to live independently from a young age.
2:08.2	Oh, my son and daughter are 34 and 62 and they're still at home.
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