u/Connect-Injury6248

Honestly I feel like I have the technical habilities to teach more or less everything that my kids need to learn to becomen functioning adults, but i the truth is I'm a little afraid of getting lost in day to day life and ending up forgeting things. Am I the only one who feels that way or how do you manage that?

My kid is 7 and it just hit me that I have no real plan or structure for any of this thing. I know I'm supposed to be teaching him financial literacy, emotions, manners, navigating the internet safely, all of it… but I'm not really doing it in any organized way. I just deal with stuff as it comes up and hope it adds up to something.

What got me thinking was another parent told me she wrote out everything she wanted her kids to know by 18 and works backwards from that. First time I'd heard anyone actually have a method, and it made me feel kind of behind.

So is that normal, or are most of us winging it? If you've got some kind of system, even a dumb one on a napkin, I'd love to hear how you actually structure it.

Okay so my son can solve for x in algebra and name all the parts of a cell, but has no clue how a bank account works. Wouldn't know what to do if someone collapsed in front of him, couldn't tell you if a photo was real or made by AI...

And look, I'm not blaming teachers (they're drowning as it is). That's not the issue. It's just… I keep getting this nagging feeling that he's being taught to pass a test, not to handle the real world. 

And with how fast everything's changing, it feels like half of what he's learning in school is gonna be useless by the time he's actually out there on his own.

Anyone else feel this? And if you do, what are you actually doing about it at home, if anything? Feeling a bit lost here