The week

[ladragon]

It occurs to me that I would like some feed back. I am still researching how skills are learned that are not emmediately apparent to alot of people. So How did you learn household and basic life skills? really. What do I do all week? hmm good question. Work I spend being flexible and monitoring what is needed and trying to be ready to supply it,

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Learning

[the_silver_poet]

I agree with you as most of our learning that sticks comes from an early age hence the qoute "Young Minds are most impressionable especially at the child years

[mike_kaos]

I think about half of anything I do is personality/the mood I'm in.
like the fact that I keep a very clean kitchen, and a messy/comfortable bedroom.

with the kitchen I cook by 1 mom's teaching, 2 experimentation, 3 experience, planning what to do when, so it all comes together at about the same time.

when cleaning I find myself doing things in groups (like counters when I do the dishes) as my mom showed me, but with my own groupings.

although sometimes I just wander through doing random stuff that looks like it wanted to get done...

i also notice that I tend to do alot of forethought/planning.
that way my mind consideres it already done, and I can just zen it from there.

[ladragon]

hmm , now you have made me think. I also do a lot of forethought/planning and then zen it. Now I wonder how and when I started that? (lol, my bedroom is always the last thing that gets done, hence the messyest since I burn out before I get to it. It always seems like the easiest to postpone.) Always do Kitchen then bathroom then livingroom, those are essential. Other rooms are as I grab them or when they get to the intolerable level. Now I wonder why and when I started that pattern. Your Icon looks like he is flirting with everyone, reminds me of your Charles character.

[mike_kaos]

i think I started zenning it when I accepted the inevitability and boredom of it. as soon as I stopped trying to fight it, it became my random thinking time.

mom also taught me to clean house when I'm mad. helps refocus and center (bet she knew that, she just let me think I learned that part myself).

I also leave my room till last. i can closed that door.

flirting? moi?
non, I am just naturally charmink ;)

[ladyanara]

Well I mostly learned because I had the desire to learn it not because anyone showed me even in fun. I learned how to bake by trial and error. I taught myself how to read recipes. although my mom and my older sister did teach me how to use the stove, mixer and waffle iron. My mom did teach me how to make the family recipe calzones that my family calls cannollies. don't ask I don't know why my family calls them cannollies and not calzones. She did also teach me how to make deviled eggs too but with both of those I knew I was learning. I clean when I am mad that is something my mother taught me not on purpose but mostly because I had to find a physical release to my anger that wouldn't cause mass destruction. I found cleaning got that out of my system without destroying things. the reason my mom taught me this without knowing she did is because I was usually angry at her. I am sure there are other things my mother taught me but I can't think of them. I lost my grandmother when I was 4. I found her dead. so I guess she taught me about

Been thinking about this

[lady_celt]

I was very rarely taught, even unintentionally. I imagine a great deal of what I learned was by osmosis. I rarely saw anyone clean our house, yet the house was always clean. Therefore, I knew something had to be going on. Mainly, it was me going I need this done, no one is here to help me, let me figure this out. However, I know how to cook a turkey and make stuffing just from all the years of being in the kitchen and helping mom make it. It was all, "hey! I need to do this for me". Not any structured lesson of how to make stuffing.