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because alot of dads dont know how to do it and are to affraid to just wing it

Because it has gotten to where people would rather pay someone to do it than take the time to do it themselves….usually everyone is too busy to do it themselves.

Why aren’t schools teaching the proper use of the apostrophe and the formation of irregular plurals?

because they are not handy men them selves - so you can’t teach what you don’t know. Another reason might be that as parents we want our children to have it easier than we did, so we require less of them and teach them to be self sufficient less and so they end up paying for services that they could perform themselves

Ugh. I often wonder this myself. I’m more handy with things around the house than my b/f of five years ever will be. I get mad that he can’t do simple things. When he moved out of his apartment from Philly I took apart his entire bed! He couldn’t even use a screwdriver.

In todays generation most men have grown to lack a little thing called common sense….just think of all the dangers of plumbing (they might flush their arms down the drain!) electrical stuff (fixing a lightbulb then ZAAAP) and simple woodwork? (hitting eachother with hammers….) i think ive made my point….Nah im just kidding ive been watching too much simpsons lol. No offense to anyone!

They don’t because they are too lazy. They hire a plumber to fix a leaky faucet, is the plumber going to teach the kid? No, so the kids (and many in their teens and twenties) haven’t a clue at how to do a thing.

Unfortunate there are a lot of dads that are not in their childrens lives in any capacity………

I would echo the sentiment of the earlier poster and say because not too many men are handy. My dad isn’t (though I’m a chick - so I don’t know if your question applies to daughters being “handy”) but my younger brother is quite the handyman - a trait I suspect he learned from our very handy and creative mother. And I can also repair certain small eletrical appliances and do woodworking repair. I can operate various woodworking tools I would not trust my dad with.

My husband - on the other hand - is like McGuyver. I think our son will be quite capable of doing most of his own light repair.

both the dad’s and the son’s are both on the net on “my space” or playing “x-box” or watching “on-demand” movies
etc.
(same reason many kids are overweight)

the problem i see is that the majority of the dads dont know the basics of being a handyman themselves most of them would rather pay to have it done. i guess i am still old school and fix things myself first off i like to do it and when my son is around i like to show him how to do it. my son can do some basic things but i have taught him that if he cant fix it then and only then should he hire someone else to do it and also if the repair requires an inspection he should hire a liscenced contractor of that type to do it. but most repairs are simple and in reality they can be done by him

Good question. Maybe the dad doesn’t know how to do it himself. And why stop with the sons? How about the dad’s teaching their daughters how to change the oil on their cars and change a flat tire. Some day they will go to college and need this taken care of.

For some unknown reason I see too many dads far more interested in their own hobbies than in sharing their time with their kids. But then those same dads rarely have control over the household either.

Another question…why do dads allow their wives to dress their little girls in slutty clothes and then send them off to school looking like little whores?

Hmmmm.

can’t pry them away from their video games long enough.
Depending on the age of the dad, could be because he never learned himself.
Because life is lived so fast that by the time he get’s home from working the son has grown up and moved on.

Because today’s dads are not as manly as yesterday’s dads!

I do teach my sons, and my daughter also.