Teach Your Kids to Fend for Themselves With These Everyday Tasks
by Kristen Mae on Offspring, shared by Kristen Mae to from Lifehacker on (#4D9CK)

It was 1997, and I had just settled into my dorm a few days prior. Classes hadn't even started yet. I was having a problem with registration because I was missing some critical piece of information. I called my mom. "Mom, can you call and find out what I need to do to fix my registration?"