How to prepare for independent living?

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How can I start prepare to learn independently? Can anybody give advice on this issue? Thanks!

what would you like to learn ?

Merle

I suppose the easiest way is to practice doing things by yourself. If you don't already, start doing your own laundry and cooking your own food. If you can do those two things and pay your bills on time, then you should have no problems.

An important thing is to develop some rhythm with your household chores. I have a fixed order of doing things in my household, so I forget nothing and everything is (more or less) clean.

What I meant was cooking, cleaning... all those household chores... man.

Clean your room yourself, vacuum the house without being asked, ask your Mom to help you learn to cook and once you can some things on your own do it, shower daily without being told too, do your own laundry/learn to do your own laundry, do the dishes, get a part-time job if you're still in school and in the summer it can be more full time, and be responsible for your own actions.

wOw,I'm afraid I cannot give you any single advice..I'm too dependent to my aunt(my parents sucks,totally,that's why I don't live with any one of them).(Makes me scared...my aunt is leaving going to canada or australia plus,I'll be entering college next next year)(Another reason why I should hate my parents-they sent me to school as early as 3 years old that's why I didn't enjoy my childhood)

I can only echo what others said. Start cooking, cleaning and doing laundry either for yourself or as part of the household. Maybe get a small laundry basket in your room and wash your own clothes, but pitch in with the general chores, and ask to be shown how to do the "difficult" things.

You might also want to go to the store with your folks on a weekend and learn things like how much food you need in a week, what else to buy, and how to budget - and also how to pick out, say, a good cut of meat. From there you can ask to be given a budget and practice buying your own food (first with your folks along, then alone but meeting them at the checkout, then totally alone).

You might also want to sit down with your folks at the end of the month and look at how they do their finances. Mortgage/rent, utilities, phone/internet/premium TV, and other expenses - and how they work out what they get paid, what their expenses are, and then what money they have left over.

It worked for me