My child and roommates pay their rents via venmo, something I’m not up on yet, so I’m sure there’s a thread out there somewhere entitled, “Stuff I Need to Teach My Parents That Everyone Knows” 
Yeah, my kids will look up a youtube video when they need to learn something.
I may have mentioned on this thread, but DD didn’t think ahead at Christmas to get the rent from her two room-mates before they left town, for Jan 1 rent, and I had to float her the money.
Neighbor’s kid, who is graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, didn’t take his parents’ advice/instruction to have the overheating car towed - he drove it slowly and yes damaged the motor - so $6,000 mistake which they paid. They failed to teach him to absolutely take their advice/instruction in this situation, or to talk to him sternly enough. Expensive lesson. DD got in a one car accident because she didn’t listen to her dad about driving conditions, but thankfully it did not cost us $6K.
Learning to ride a unicycle by putting it on a treadmill is not such a good idea!
We absolutely failed to tell our son that it is important that you don’t take chances or make mistakes because they will ruin your life, and as a result he became a music student.
You Tube is very helpful. We did not teach DD to tap a keg, but when she was an organizer for a college function she and her suite mate found a helpful video.
To jumpstart a car: “Positive to positive, negative to ground.” Much safer than connecting as described above.
On sending a resume electronically over the weekend: as an employer, I’d say, sure, go ahead. Let that resume join the other fifty that came in on Monday morning. However, as a parent, I’d say… “send it so it arrives after lunch on Monday, when the person selecting them has seen fifty resumes they didn’t like and that didn’t stand out–and make sure you write a very carefully worded resume that relates specifically to the job you’re applying for.”
If they’ve seen the 50 on this day and age, they may have already filled their interview slots. Don’t wait, jobs close very fast these days.
Thanks @dmd77. Not every rhyming mnemonic is safe.
These days the resumes are often pre-screened by a computer algorithm looking for key words.
What is so hard about sending a short text or a short phone call? Have to call, call, text, text. Hope at age 22 will grow out of this defect.
How to open the plastic packaging inside a cereal box without destroying the plastic and/or spraying cereal across the kitchen floor.
Yes, when you run out of checks, you will probably have to pay to have new ones printed and mailed to you. But since that first free set that came with the account has lasted for a full six years since you opened your account, I really don’t think you will use up this new set all that fast.
DS’ s school sent a check to return his housing deposit; they sent it here, as this was the address on file for DS. I mailed it to him. He messaged me: “What do I do with this check?” Me: “Um, put it into your bank account?”
When I was 20, if someone had sent me a check made out to me, there would have been no doubt what to do with it! (Seriously, though, since I had paid the deposit, I think he was just asking if I wanted him to endorse it and send it back, or otherwise reimburse me. But it struck me as kind of a “duh” kind of question, followed by consideration of the possibility that he’d never had to deposit a check and didn’t know how, until I remembered that he did get paid by paper check when he was in HS.)
On the check front, my kids are ahead of me technology wise. They snap a pic with their smart phones and get it electronically deposited into their accounts.
This old dog hasn’t learned that trick yet. I only got into online banking 2 years or so ago. However, I have completely done away with having paper checks. My bank started charging for them about a year ago (used to be free) and I decided to do without. About 8 months so far and its worked thus far!
I recall a previous thread similar to this one.
I posted that the first time D did laundry at school, she told me I bought her the wrong detergent. She said there was a screen over the detergent dispenser and she needed liquid detergent because she couldn’t get the pod in.
Another poster responded that her S mentioned at winter break that he wanted liquid detergent because it was really hard to open those pods.
I know I am as old as the hills, but do Bursar’s Offices still cash checks? Can they be third party checks (meaning, will they cash that final summer work check?) I remember cashing my work study check at the Bursar’s Office once a month or whenever it came in.
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Between youtube and google, they can get better info on everything they need to know just about everything.
^^@doschicos, consider downloading your bank’s app and depositing checks with your phone. Wow! Started doing this about 6 months ago and it’s incredibly easy. A plug for venmo too.
At some point, when (if) venmo becomes common place, checks may go away completely but, for now, those two forms of technology have made the ability to pay/reimburse someone and process checks I’m given (not often but perhaps 2-3/month) less than a 60 second process.
@collage1 I would need to get out of the dark ages and actually get a smart phone. 
@doschicos Yesterday when I picked up my daughter from the metro she pulled out her phone and paycheck and had it deposited before we were out of the parking lot.