Alex Clark

We're not even teaching children how to cook.

A lot of that is the parents don't know how to cook either.

It would be a phenomenal idea, I think, to do a little cooking class or something, even if it's with grandma.

Grandma, can you just please come over and teach the whole family how to cook?

Because if you don't know the skill, I mean, that's a glaring issue that I'm seeing with people.

And, you know, that's another thing, too.

I mean, obviously, this should go without saying because I just said that so many parents aren't even allowing their kids to sleep over at their grandparents.

But I always, growing up, was probably around, like, an eight-hour drive at all times away from my grandparents.

And so every single June, usually, my parents would drive my little brother and I to my grandparents, drop us off for—

three weeks.

I mean, not the whole month, but a majority of the month.

And we would do swim lessons there.

You know, our grandparents would sign us up for swim lessons and I'd be playing outside and butterfly catching and, you know, all these different things, going to their church with them and learning, you know, meeting those kids at their church.

And there was just so many things going to vacation Bible school in that town where my grandparents lived.

It's like, that's another thing.

I

We did fine apart from our parents.

Of course, we were excited to see them whenever they came to get us at the end of it.

But I feel so sad.

One, and I'm not going to blame this totally on the parents, because I think a lot of grandparents are not wanting to be grandparents.