I Wasn't Taught Life Skills, So Am Learning

I grew up in an intact family, the middle child of three. My father was a catholic priest who left the priesthood when he fell in love with my mother, a nurse. She took care and nurtured everyone and everything while he battled his...

I wasn't potty trained till I was 4. I couldn't read till I was 6. The first time I went to a birthday party I was 10. The first time I slept at someone's house 12. But its more then that. I wasn't even aloud to use a butter knife till...

When i was a kid, my mother never made me brush my teeth. I never bothered doing it even daily but now being almost 19 years old, I have an alarm reminding me twice daily to brush my teeth. I feel so ridiculous every time i hear that...

Things were probably not explained to me very often or all that well when I was young. I wish I learned more immediately important lessons like confidence, patience, how to deal with difficult people, how to...

My father was self centred and selfish and my mother was very distant and cold. Naturally I grew up distant.  The only time my parents ever really interacted  with me was when they beat me.  Homework, bed time stories, problems at...

I think my parents were just too exhausted all the time from just trying to make ends meet to have much engagement with me, so most of my learning was done at school and from the copious books I read.  But then there's a whole...

I too had an overbearing mother...who tried to control every single move and every thought in your head...she always thought the worst of you, like satan is whispering evil things in your ear and you might be tempted or something.. geez...

The hard part about this is i think my parents did try to teach me how to do the most basic of things...but they just didnt stick with it..My parents where devorsed and both had different rules at there house..i think i might have given...

Yep. My mother kept me sheltered from the world and tried to keep me away from the darker things in life. I know she was trying to help, but I went out into the world, totally unprepared! And many people took advantage of me, the girl...

My family has never practised forgiveness. 
Most of the folks in the area where I grew up are just as stern and harsh and unforgiving as my own kin.  We all come from a long line of settlers and homesteaders.  I'm sure it's in our...

I am thankful that I tend to be a quick learner.  I had never seen a check in detail until I had my first bank account at the age of 20.  I had never written a check until I went to pay for the first thing I bought, a bed...

When I say skills, it is really very small stuffs in day to day life..Maybe other's won't even consider them as anything to learn..I was bought up in a very weird manner and I never realized it until I was about 20..By that age all my...

i can't believe there are other people who feel this way...
my mother went about raising me in such an absurd way. i didn't even realize until this past year that i dint ever recall being taught manners. i mean seriously, my mom never...

My mom was controlling and micromanaged everything I did. if i didn't do something she did it for me, if she didn't like how i did something she redid it. If I tried to do something she would take over. I could never do anything right...

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You can read my blog if you want to know more details.  My mom only taught me how to rely on her.  Whenever I needed something done that I didn't know how to do, she would just do it for me.  As the old saying would go...

and beyond I was always different because I was raised differently than most. My mom had a brain tumor and died young so as a result me and her never stayed in one place. I think we moved to thirteen different states by the time I was...

My mom was a single mom, she didn't have a great deal of time to teach me stuff.  Most of it I just picked up on my own.  My first roommate taught me how to get my electricity turned on.  My sister taught me how to do my...

One day in the library a book hollered to me, "Over here!" I looked at the title and I couldn't imagine the answer, but I was intrigued. It's called, "How Much Is Enough?" There are three authors, and offhand I remember two, Jean I...