Alex Clark

So how can those parents practically do that?

And then at what age should they start?

What are three things every parent should start doing this week to build capability in their kids?

Let's talk about that.

At what age should a child be allowed and able to go into a small store where you can see in the windows and watch them to order food, a milkshake, for example, by themselves without the parent?

What is a responsibility that someone could give their 11 or 12 year old that maybe they're not doing right now?

I think an 11 or 12-year-old, I think even younger, but definitely 11 or 12, you should be able to make dinner for your family.

I mean, that's my hot take.

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.