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The other thing that I think of wrt Beans Dad is his "What kind of an apocalypse parent am I?" question, and the answer is kind of a shitty one, but not because your kid couldn't open a can earlier.
It's that sort of playacting at rugged individualist apocalypse fiction idea. Surviving The Apocalypse in a lot of (esp US-ian) apocalyptic fiction is treated like "get the guns, trust no one, be entirely self-sufficient." Which is, like, yeah, those are fantasies.
The fantasy is, that you could be entirely self-sufficient, that you could shoot all the zombies, that you could make it through with your supplies and your personal knowledge etc etc etc.
But in terms of teaching your children to survive an apocalypse or a massive disaster, that's the opposite of what people who survive apocalyptic events actually do...
When the water is up to the roof line, people share resources, jump in their personal boats and try to row complete strangers to safety. People tend to cooperate and band together when they can because that's actually how are species has evolved & self-domesticated to function.
Being able to get along with others, teach and be taught without being a giant asshole, and being able to cooperate... you know, all those "soft skills"... is more useful to a lot of people in bad situations than any amount of engineering or mechanical skills.
I mean, not that this matters, and I know that part was tongue in cheek, but... yeah. We're a social species for a reason. Some of our greatest skills are our abilities to cooperate and communicate information.
