Letters make the practical case for teaching laundry and basic cooking before children leave home for university.
We owe it to our young people to teach them how to do laundry and prepare food, writes Melissa Scallan , while Pippa Keech recalls her son’s university halls baptism of fire Zoe Williams’ university-bound son won’t be the only one among his peers not to know how, or indeed why, bed sheets are laundered ( I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures, 8 September ). Modern day, middle-class parenting tends to direct kids away from domestic pursuits, focusing instead …