My husband has been teaching my kids (5 girls) basic home repairs. How to replace a faucet, fill holes in the walls, and basic tools. They also know how to remove and replace flooring and helped with bathroom renovations where everything was replaced. He has taught about power tools also. I teach my kids at about 8-10 years old how to embroider or hand sew so they can fix basic holes in clothes and items to make it last longer. Some of my kids will go on to learn the sewing machine, teach themselves how to crochet or knit, and even how to make many different handcrafts. Since we modify most recipes due to food allergies, cooking from scratch, meal planning, and how to look at a recipe and see how to substitute to be able to eat it is another thing we teach when we do cooking.

I also teach sewing and bread baking. During COVID my area got hit and the grocery stores had no bread. We had the ingredients in our pantry to have homemade bread. I would also add fitness, especially for middle school and high school. If kids don’t play sports, it’s still good to get them in the habit of daily exercise.

4 years ago I taught my older kids about politics. We learned how the election process worked. We talked about all the hot topics of that election and both sides of the issue. We learned about the different people running that year. I found a website that you could answer your take on the topics and it would tell you where you land ;democrat, Republican, libertarian, etc. I also showed them the mail in ballot we got and showed them how that worked. We then stayed up election night following the news. We also played a board game called election night. It was one of my most favorite "class" I ever taught.