Man is in hot water with family for teaching teen daughter to gut a fish: 'It's a life skill,' he says
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A husband and father took to Reddit to explain his quandary: He made his 13-year-old daughter gut a fish and his family was mad about it. He called it a necessary life skill, like cooking.
When he was growing up, he wrote, he had to learn a lot of life skills — and he and his wife are continuing that tradition with their girls. "I don’t see the big deal in learning to gut a fish, but I’m not a teenage girl." "Unless you regularly catch your own fish, it is not an essential life skill." Deirdre Reilly is a senior editor in lifestyle with Fox News Digital.
"My wife and I have been teaching them life skills such as cooking, cleaning and car maintenance," he noted, adding that his older daughter gets "much more hands-on experience" than his younger daughter does.