OK its all my fault.

I taught my daughters all the typically manly stuff, so I guess that raises the manly quotient in favor of women by two.

Both of my girls learned basic car stuff…my older daughter learned how to change oil, plugs, wires, ignition, air filter, pvc, read and top off fluids, change a car tire, change headlights, tail lights, change a battery. Both of them before age 11 could do all of this. The three of us reconditioned an older car together and sold it for a profit.

I taught them come basic carpentry, cutting moulding, angles, setting hinges, repairing locks, adjusting closers, setting windows, sanding, chiseling, cutting with mitre box, putting on hardware, hanging pictures, hanging curtains.

I taught my kids how to build basic furniture…not the IKEA things, but how to make furniture from scratch, and stain it. They each made a desk and a chair to do their homework on.

I taught my kids how to make stained glass windows, cutting, grinding taping and soldering with lead, how to make frames and hang their windows. My daughter repaired a window in a church herself.

They also learned about electricity, finding the breakers and turning them off, how to hang lights, fans, rewire outlets and switches, how to pull wire, grounding.

I taught them how to paint a room, taping, sanding and patching, rolling, cutting in with a brush. They painted their own rooms.

My kids learned about plumbing, valves, joints, crimping and cutting pipes, bending and hanging. They helped me repipe a bathroom, they also learned how to tile the floor and the walls.

I took the time to teach them how to maintain a lawnmower, taking it apart every month for a good cleaning and maintenance. The riding mower was a little tricky, the mower deck weighed more than they did, but we used jack stands and a bottle jack to take things apart and put them back together.

Kids learned bicycle maintenance, adjusting their own bikes as they got older.

I took time to show them how to comparison shop, how to figure out percentage off, taxes and financing. The kids had their own ebay store where they sold things on their own.

I taught them personal finance, savings, how stocks worked, how to save and invest, what a mortgage is, how credit cards work.

I taught them how to sew, how to do laundry and how to cook. My kids learned how to use a bbq grill, a propane camping stove and the oven in the house. My children learned how to vacuum and dust.

I taught them wood craft, fishing and hunting skills when we went camping. They can make fire with a fire bow, they built their own lean to shelter. I taught them first aid. I taught them orienteering and hiking through rough country. They learned to load and shoot different types of guns.

We visited children’s museums and explored caves, we did volunteer work at a train museum and we visited art museums. We went to cultural events, we leaned how to square dance. My kids took dance lessons and took courses at the community college…computer, manners polite behavior, creative writing, golf, archery, botany, art, pond biology. We attended city council meetings, library advisory meetings and parade advisory meetings. My children learned parliamentary rules.

We worked at soup kitchens, volunteered to work at historical sites, trail clean up, river clean up, meals on wheels and visited at nursing homes. My children learned good citizenship first hand.

I knew I didn’t have much time to teach them how to function in the real world. I knew their mother was a toxic bitch and would interfere with my parenting time. The kids got a 4 year crash course in living, stuff that should have been spaced out over a lifetime. I didn’t want my daughters to be an absolute drain and have no clue how to do things for themselves. I knew that their mother worked late, and that the Chad was going to be a non factor.

My parenting time was spent teaching my children. The time they spent with their mother was much less productive. Their mother leaves early, and works late. not really there for the kids.

And now, I have no contact with the kids, no chance to practice these lifeskills. s~~~.

I know my time showing them how to do all of these things wasn’t wasted. These were all skills my father learned from his father, and I passed them on to my kids. This is the function of men in the family. The idiot bitch c~~~ who divorces good men because they are not happy f~~~ up this valuable contribution to society, thus we have men who are incapable of all these life skills. This will bite us in the ass in a few generations, and the less educated tend to reproduce more, and the capable educated people tend to have fewer children. Welcome to the Idiotcracy. Our civilization, made by men, has risen to an amazing technological level, only to fall apart at the hands of ignorant people in the future.