What Did Your Father Teach You When You Were 10 That Most Adults Don't Know Today...?

[Averageman]

He showed me how to use the Library, be respectful while I'm in there and the "Dewey Decimil System.
I got my love of reading from him.

[tommyrott]

mine taught me how to drive a tractor at 10 then taught me how to make rows nice and straight when he was happy I got to plow 50 acres without supervision. was totally stoked when I got done then dad rained on my parade and made me replow 10 acres to get the lines to his satisfaction

[jsbhike]

That's actually true. All water moccasins do have elliptical pupils. It's a very bad idea to get close enough to one to see the shape of its pupils though. Most non venomous snakes have round pupils but there are several exceptions. For example, Coral snakes also have round pupils.

As far as I know the non-venomous split vs. venomous non-split belly scale pattern is universal, but dang near useless.

https://www.jbsrattles.com/www.jbsra...ification.html

[604flyer]

Honesty. Dad taught me if you screw up, own up to it. You’ll be in more trouble trying to lie your way out of something than if you fess up to begin with. I guess politicians never got that message.

[jsbhike]

No disrespect to your grandfather, but he was actually meaning self respect.

Self esteem is accepting yourself without any attempt at improvement.
Self respect is working to be the kind of person you'd respect.

Can't recall where I heard or read that, but it would have been late 80's to early 90's.

[rero360]

My dad taught me at a pretty young age to change the oil in the car, replace the radiator and brake rotors and calipers, rotate tires. He also taught me how to build and start fires and general safety stuff. My grandfather taught me how to dress deer and squirrels and to sharpen knives.

[ThirdWatcher]

My Dad taught me how to write cursive. Being a Navy btat, I switched schools often enough to miss a few things along the way and learning to write cursive was one of them. I’m not sure that’s even a requirement anymore. (BTW, best school I ever attended was in Santee, CA in the early 1960’s.)

[matemike]

How to change the oil on a CAT 3208 in the bilge of a Bertram
How to harvest every single edible part of a deer. He was a physician. Seriously, we ate the heart, liver and even kidneys
How to drive stick on a 1974 GMC that we had named Homer (before the cartoon show)(He named the truck after the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey)

[AKDoug]

Good or bad he taught me to be self reliant. Our family fixes our own vehicles and heavy equipment, builds our own houses, and generally don't hire anyone except for the tasks we really hate like drywall.

[AndyLate]

That most adults don't know today? Jeez, half the things my Dad taught me by 10 probably qualify. I could saddle and ride a horse, drive a tractor, drive a manual car or truck, refinish wood, use hand tools and some power tools, shoot a rifle or shotgun, hoe a veggie garden, kill a rattlesnake, trap and skin a fur bearer...

I knew how to tell time by the sun or stars, but not anymore. Most adults don't know the night sky rotates around the North Star now.

Andy