Some quotes from my mum:

• "If i didn't teach you how to swim as soon as you learned to walk, I'd have taken my eyes off you at some point and you'd have drowned in a river."
• "You had to do your cycling proficiency test to be allowed to ride to school on your own and thats what you wanted to do and I wasn't waking up early enough to stop you" (We also didn't have a family a car til I was 16, so she needed to teach us to ride else we'd have never have gone anywhere, and I used to wake up at 5am all the time).
• "I wasn't going to let you move out without a drivers license, how would you get home?"
• "You need to learn how to cook at least a couple of different meals otherwise you'll never get a girlfriend"

We also had chores, hoovering, ironing, washing dishes, mowing the lawn etc, though we never had pocket money, it was either pocket money or Birthday/Christmas presents.

I might have been nice to have like, a decent male role model in my childhood, I'd have liked to have learned more skills that are traditionally masculine earlier, trade skills like wordwork, metal work, plastering, enough to set me up to be compentent enough to do my own renovations after growing up and buying a house, thankfully I've had friends and friends' parents to pick up some of that slack and teach me how to do things, oh and youtube creators.

I've never been in a real physical fight, not something I want to do mind, I've been thrown around in moshpits and that hurts enough, and we're doing that for shits and giggles, like actually fighting to hurt someone though? Nope.

First aid? That would be a nice thing to learn.

I also wish I'd have understood when I was younger the amount of joy that music would bring me as I grew up, maybe had I have known I'd have practiced playing something, but I was never one to revise at school either, so maybe that, it's discipline, it's practice and revision, thats the real basic skill I never developed.