LOL! My dad was useful helping me fix my car, discussing electronics and politics, telling stories about old sci-fi plots he'd read, but not terribly handy at giving me life advice.

I was surprised at how much wiser my mom grew each year, even though most of what she taught me to prepare for adulthood was sadly outdated by the time I grew up..how to fold and safely pin a cloth diaper, how to kill, pluck, and cook a chicken (turned me into a vegetarian), how to be the obedient wife (never refuse sex, and always forgive and forget..a formula to encourage abuse, which it did.), and taught me Bible stories..which I no longer believe in.