Time to restore past lessons?

It's been a warm weekend out as I ditched a thicker coat for a thinner jacket which was just waterproof for showers if needed and dropped a layer off in the sun or indoors.

In so far as food goes it doesn't really alter what I eat around midday as that's meat salads unless I'm going out to lunch which don't take a long time to prepare unless you really want to go to town with it, hard boiling eggs by saucepan full and making your own dips.

I do sometimes thing in our quest to both increase employment opportunities for all and avoid gender based biases in children's education we lost track of the importance of Home Economics, learning basic cooking and hygiene or learning how to mend and clean clothes together with how to run a home.

Rather than seeing it something everyone should learn, we seemed to take the view it was a lesser option forced on girls that needed to go.

It shouldn't surprise us the number of people who do not know how to prepare a meal from fresh ingredients and would be lost without a ready meal because we're at least a couple of generations loss from learning and using those skills on a everyday basis.

Equally much clothing is tossed aside that could easily be repaired and given a second life. 

Perhaps it's time to rethink just what we do teach given that for most you don't leave education until you're eighteen today unlike in the past.