I learned very early on that I could make any male do anything I wanted, just by paying real good attention and sparkling at them. As an adult, I realized that I really did not want that ability, so I dimmed the sparkle and became sarcastic.

That my parents had elastic conscience's.
I also learned that you are allowed to take time for yourself guilt free. Work isn't the be all and end all.

saying 'no' without any negative feelings.

appreciating the taste of brussel sprouts, kalamata olives & ginger.

patience.

performing solo a capella on stage without dying.

When I was very young I came to the conclusion that the church and it's foundation (religion) was too stupid to be real because adults were telling us stories that were clearly not based on reality. I therefore concluded religious claims were not real and nothing more then a stupid mind game adults use to control children. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I realized that some (many) adults actually believed in the fantasy the church preaches. That was a cold and bitter realization that changed what until then had been a very optimistic outlook for the future of humanity.

I think I have the exact opposite to you. I always was co-operative, lived in communes worked in worker co-operatives I am only in the last 25 years becoming my own individualised person and feeling Ok about it .

That nothing is ever as straight forward and black and white as we were told...

I learned that many people are full of shit.

Life isn't easy. School life was easy, be it friends, work, school. It was easy making friends (and this is coming from me who didn't have many friends) because you have to be around a bunck of people 5 out of 7 days a week. But when you leave school and (hopefully) get a job. I don't know if you guy love hanging out with your coworkers afterwork. But I for one can only stand 3 or 4 people I work with after work........ So I don't rember everything else I wanted to say.

I learned everything about adulthood as a young adult. How to budget and pay bills, still working on that one,

The main thing I learned as an adult is that adults aren't as smart as I thought they were as a kid. Most of the time it seems like we're just making things up as we go along. We don't really know what we're doing for the most part.

There's a whole lot of shit I can't and shouldn't try to control.

As a Television serviceman, it was not until well into my craft that I learned that pure water was an insulator. it is only the salts and contaminants from the earth which render water as a conductor of electricity. Rain water is pure, it must be or all the transmission lines across the country would have their insulators short circuited whenever it rained.

This is going to sound horribly naive. I just assumed when young that with age comes wisdom and altruism(altho I didn't have a word for the latter then). That all old people are nice and care about others. LOL@self
I was wrong.

I was always told that I was a lot smarter than everyone else due to an IQ test I took before I was old enough to even go to school. It wasn't until I started working where my employers in their constant comparisons that I really saw what they were saying. Book smarts only take you so far, you need to actually apply your learning before it's really understood.

Opposite extreme here, my mother (like, apparently your grandmother) emphasized playing nice with others, I had no idea I could even BE myself until well into adulthood (I give credit to my late 2nd wife for giving me permission to be myself -- I guess I needed it symbolically).

Funny how the generations play ping pong, each one abreacting to the imbalance of the previous one.

The value of a good book. Also, when you put things into the perspective of what actually matters, happiness comes naturally.

Too many facets of life and social behavior to enumerate here.

Algebra, haha.

Many (most?) men like (their own) children and enjoy being fathers. I had to date men to find that out.

Having small boobs is, by and large, a negligible impediment to physical attractiveness.

People generally do not like to admit they do not know something and some will go to any length to avoid it.

You don't have to do anything at all for someone to hate you. Sometimes just being visible is enough.

I had a Christian household so everything lol

That most people are fucking assholes all the time and all people are sometimes, including me ofcourse.

How to cook/bake. We ate out 3 times a week It was a boyfriend who lived off campus who taught me to cook.

As a child and youth, I was largely a conformist to the expectations others had of me. Virutally all of my intellectual, moral, philosophical growth, my growth in productivity, and my self-definition occurred as an adult.

How niaive I was /am.

Lol yeah I still haven't really learned how to play well with others at all...I still don't know how to do some pretty basic adult stuff cuz I wasn't taught and haven't had to use it yet cuz I haven't lived outside of my parent's (or in a place where I basically just gave cash and it was dealt with) yet. Can't think of what specifically those things are atm, though.