 Now, obviously, parents should be training their children in these skills, but 50 million kids in this country spend most of their waking hours through most of their formative years in school buildings, and that would be, in theory, the perfect place to impart a lot of this kind of knowledge. And there was a time when lots of these things were covered in school. They even had a whole subject, home economics it was called, and that subject was devoted to everyday life skills like these.