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From Me To You . . .  May 2025

We have always been aware that the time with our children is finite, and that when they are ready to leave the nest it was our duty to make them as capable as possible. To that end we have consciously taught them things that we hoped would help them become responsible, productive adults.

 

All my children could cook simple meals by the age of 12. This had the added bonus of relieving me from the cooking every night, and a side product was finding out one of our kids is a talented and inventive chef — who knew that bacon was better when covered in hot honey???

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Laundry was a massive undertaking in a house with 2 adults and 4 children, so sharing the load (no pun

intended) by teaching the whites and colors of it all to the children helped on both sides. Cleaning, keeping and caring for a house were in there too, along with being able to travel, read a map, and navigate an airport by themselves.

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Fundamental finances. This is a biggie. Everyone should know how to balance their bank account, understand the importance of credit - how to get it, use it and keep it. To that end we helped them get credit cards and showed them the importance of paying their balance every month. If you can’t afford to pay for roller skates then you should not get them... As they got older we taught them how to invest in the market, and gave them a small fund to invest for themselves. Sometimes their stocks went up, and sometimes they went down. Each scenario taught them something of worth.

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But the most valuable lesson, in my opinion, was teahing them to be respectful and civil to others whilst taking accountability for their own actions. It takes no more effort to be kind than to be rude or hurtful, and it can make all the difference to someone in how they see you, even more so, how they see themselves. On the flip side, being able to admit when you are wrong and remediate the situation goes a long way towards improving how others see you. Hopefully, some of these lessons stuck with our kids (now adults) and made their entry into adulthood a little smoother.

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Catherine Uretsky

Editor in Chief, Estrella Publishing

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