Daughter’s astonishing comment!

Last night when discussing chores my granddaughter is now doing as she is saving up to buy a horse (?) my son mentioned how he used to enjoy cutting the grass at home, turning the back garden into a putting green.
In his mind he was the one who cut the grass when growing up. When I challenged his version of the past informing him that his little foray into green maintenance was nearer to a 4 week stint and that he spent his teen years on the golf course only coming home for meals he refused to believe me.
Grrrrrr??

fionajk42

I went to a school for "spoilt rich kids" - my father worked abroad so I was packed off to boarding school. We never learned to cook. Instead our Home Economics lessons taught us things such as "how to arrange your weekly menu with your cook", how to fold napkins into decorative shapes, and how to eat messy food without making a mess, while using the correct cutlery.

My favourite useless lesson was how to hold items at a garden party. You were expected to be wearing a white glove on your left hand, then hold a dessert plate, a fork, a wine glass and the other glove between your fingers, so that you could use your ungloved right hand to shake hands. Unfortunately I have never in 60+ years had any occasion to put this into practice!

Brilliant! It makes you wonder what lives these rich people actually lead, where they don't need any skills other than holding your gloves and drinks in one hand, etc... Love this!

Thanks for sharing, fionajk42

What a wonderful thread!
My AC haven’t really complained about things I did or didn’t let/make them do apart from saying they wish we’d had the money for . . .
However one DD, dealing with a recalcitrant teenager, said, “We were never like that were we?”
I went to the bookcase and passed her my well thumbed copy of Help! I’ve Got a Teenager!

Thank you everyone for your contributions.
It’s good to know I’m not alone!

It’s so strange seeing my daughter take on our values and beliefs after years of rebellion.
The post was of course tongue in cheek!
She was totally undomesticated and had no interest in myself or anyone else teaching her, she is now a great pupil and will hopefully pass on her skills to our grandchildren.

I was only 20 when she was born and it was very hard as we lived hundreds of miles from any family or friends.
Financially we just about held our heads above water for the first 10 years things finally became a lot easier and our third was born with an 11 year age gap and according to numbers 1 and 2 a silver spoon!

We all do our best, in the most part I think we are all appreciated.

My 50 year old son asked why we hadn’t “allowed” him to go to university. He has conveniently forgotten that he absolutely refused to even consider continuing his education.

Kids are kids no matter how old and big they get ?

Only yesterday DD1 announced that no one had ever bought her first day stamp covers ‘because I wasn’t important enough’
There’s a box full of them upstairs in the spare bedroom

i think what all this illustrates is how we all use the props of partial/incorrect memory to support the narrative of our lives that we weave as we go along.
very little is consciously done.