Perhaps not by the parent. You buttume that parents are the best models of all life skills, I dont. I dont even think its my responsibility to model all life skills for my kids. Someone else, Beth I think, said it very well. I believe in surrounding my kids with multiple, caring adults. I have never expected that I would be all things to my kids, or even that my husband and I would. Somethings I have taught them myself, somethings I have hired out and somethings we have learned together.
ABC news 4353Ericka Kammerer Another thing to think about is what is being modeled. I know someone who grew up with a mother who absolutely hated to cook, so while she (the mother...
And of course, many skills, including cooking can be learned at adulthood.Heavens, I had a gourmet cook for a mother. Although she loved cooking and really tried to teach on occasion, she loved doing it herself, so I rarely got the chance. I learned as an adult, and grew up just gine.
As Banty mentioned, I expect you would make more sense if you definied more specifically which jobs you believe should not be hired out and why.
As for "someone else raising your kids" hooha, someone else will do that for me. Watching my kid, even forty hours per week sometimes, does not mean you are raising my kid, for one. Secondly, I see absolutiely nothing wrong with sharing the chores of child raising, be it with a caregiver a relative or a friend.
