I've gathered from talking with people that things have gotten really bad at around my generation. I'm 25, so I can say it from knowing a lot of people around the same age: the young woman you spoke to is right. I’m astonished so many of my peers have jobs, since there are far too many of us who lack even the most basic skills. Helicopter parenting ought to be considered a form of abuse as far as I’m concerned, since the result is adults who have no idea to function without mom and dad.
I’m most emphatically not a morning person, and never have been one. Even as a baby I was apparently a night owl, and according to my dad actually nocturnal, so my steps would be slightly different: I pack everything the night before, set it by the door, so I can get up, shower, dress, and grab everything I need. The basic principle is the same though: figure out what to do in order to get ready, and then break it down. It’s not that hard, but a lot of people don’t need to do it, and so never learned how to do it.
One example of this is how someone from one of my classes at university mentioned not knowing what time she needed to get up for one of our exams: her parents were away and she wasn’t sure how long it took to get to school. She was 18 or 19 at the time, well past the point where she should’ve been able to figure that out herself. People actually sympathized with her too, which I thought really weird, but then again I'd been getting myself to school since grade 2 or 3 (we lived about a five minute walk from the elementary school I went to). This was about seven years ago or so, and from what I’ve seen it’s gotten worse since.
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Date: 2020-08-29 12:56 am (UTC)I’m most emphatically not a morning person, and never have been one. Even as a baby I was apparently a night owl, and according to my dad actually nocturnal, so my steps would be slightly different: I pack everything the night before, set it by the door, so I can get up, shower, dress, and grab everything I need. The basic principle is the same though: figure out what to do in order to get ready, and then break it down. It’s not that hard, but a lot of people don’t need to do it, and so never learned how to do it.
One example of this is how someone from one of my classes at university mentioned not knowing what time she needed to get up for one of our exams: her parents were away and she wasn’t sure how long it took to get to school. She was 18 or 19 at the time, well past the point where she should’ve been able to figure that out herself. People actually sympathized with her too, which I thought really weird, but then again I'd been getting myself to school since grade 2 or 3 (we lived about a five minute walk from the elementary school I went to). This was about seven years ago or so, and from what I’ve seen it’s gotten worse since.