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Paige Freshwater

Dad slammed for teaching teen daughter how to gut fish as he claims it's a 'life skill'

A man has sparked outrage after teaching his teenage daughter how to gut a fish - claiming it's an important 'life skill'. He explained how he has been teaching his 13 and 10-year-old daughters how to cook, clean and maintain a car because they're all necessary skills needed to get by.

But as his eldest daughter is now a teenager, he decided to teach her how to catch her own food, prepare and cook it. Taking to Reddit, he said: "This summer we went camping and she had to make the fire and tent. We went fishing but didn’t catch anything. I went to port and I bought a few whole fish not gutted.

"We live on the ocean and this is a life skill, it’s common to buy fish whole. If she wants to eat fish, she needs to know how to gut them. I was going to teach her how to process a whole fish. I think this is important to do and understand. It’s a fish and she was grossed out, but I made her do it and then we cooked it."

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