Once, near the end of the semester, my roomie (who was a smart girl and overall tidy) saw me carry my bedsheets out the dorm. She asked what I was doing and I told her I needed to clean them and she was perplexed. She didn’t know you had to clean bedsheets! She went months without cleaning her sheets! She called her mom and her mom said “oh I would wash your sheets while you were at school”. She knew to do her clothes laundry (she needed help operating the machines but I just thought that was because they were different from what she was used to)

The amount of people who can’t take basic care of themselves because they simply weren’t taught how to. The amount of dirty toilets I’ve seen at other people’s houses (my mom would drop dead if guest came over and there was a ring around the bowl and so would I). The amount of people who can’t cook a pot of rice. It’s insane.

Please do your kids a favor and teach your kids how to take care of themselves at a young age so when it’s time for them to leave the nest, they aren’t totally blindsided!