[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[Jay Weigel]

I, OTOH, was fairly well trained, some of it intentionally and some because
of circumstances. I did my own ironing by the time I was in high school;
also a good share of my brothers' until I rebelled and told my mother they
should learn since they were going to be bachelors anyway because who would
want to marry them. I could do laundry and did when
I wanted something and it was dirty. I learned to plan meals and cook for
the family when my mom was sick when I was 14. I didn't learn to budget.
And manage a checking account though.
On Sunday, January 10, 2016, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> This brings back a memory of Mom. They lived in a town just north of
> Pittsburgh, and Mom went to college at Penn, which is in Philadelphia.
> This meant she was a very long distance from home.  Her solution for the
> laundry problem was to put her dirty laundry in a trunk and send them home
> to her mother. Postage was low, and she got the fresh landry back very
> shortly.
>
> I did all my laundry at school. I well recall getting my white shirts back
> (we were a coat and tie dress code institution) with little holes (and
> sometimes big holes) where some acid had splattered on the shirt during
> chem lab.
>
>
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > IT is interesting what we don't/didn't know or get taught "the basics",
> > and sometimes the reason why.
> >
> > Either by admission or by my own deduction, I discovered some unique
> > reasons why I never washed clothes, or knew how to do so until I landed
> at
> > college (my mom had to do her family of origin's laundry growing up and
> she
> > wanted to 'spare' her kids). I was the laughing stock of the dorm when I
> > needed to ask what to do. In retrospect, there were a few neglectful
> things
> > that happened to me growing up and I think not even telling me how to do
> my
> > laundry when I headed to college may have fallen in that category <gdr>
> > As adult who has discerned a number of quirks about myself as having
> their
> > genesis in my growing up years, I am sometimes amazed at what I failed to
> > do for my kids because it never occurred to me, or was not done to/for
> me,
> > all the while my kids experienced their peers having a different
> experience
> > then their own in many areas, and as is sometimes just human nature,
> never
> > talked about it until their 'scarred for life' years, post 30.
> >
> > Lynn
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> > "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> > by Richard Rohr
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com <javascript:;>>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 12:20 PM
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>>
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.
> >
> >
> > On 10/01/2016 16:32, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mine did dishes on a rotating basis until we moved to a house with a
> >>> dishwasher. Then I didn't mind it so much. I did make sure, by the time
> >>> they were in middle school (11-12-13), that they learned how to cook
> the
> >>> basics (burgers, eggs, pasta, etc.) without setting the kitchen on
> fire.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think we owe it to our kids to ensure they have basic survival skills
> >> before they leave home.  By that I do not mean how to survive in the
> wild
> >> but cooking such as you describe, how to use the washing machine without
> >> ruining clothes, how to sow on buttons, etc.
> >>
> >> Sam became a fairly good basic cook and Betsy a fairly creative one.
> Adam
> >>> didn't do much with his knowledge until he married a woman who couldn't
> >>> cook, and then he became, out of necessity, a pretty decent one. In the
> >>> Guard, he and his buddies operated what they referred to as Cafe
> Wrench.
> >>> The food was so good guys from other units came by to eat; they charged
> >>> them by the plate.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I assume that they knew how to charge, including something for knowledge
> >> and skill as well as the cost of the ingredients.  That is another
> >> important aspect of survival skills - not being made use of by others.
> >>
> >> Prayers for you tomorrow.
> >>
> >> Roger
> >>
> >
> >
>