Just so you know I tend to like your comments. You seem to write what you are thinking and how you view and feel about certain topics. sharing your insights into things that I find pretty interesting and educational really. Instead of just repeating the same stuff I see all over reddit and the main subs all day long
I'm right there with you even if my experiences were probably quite different I still missed out on so many life skills. I feel like I'm always catching up. I'm 35 with 3 kids and I'm still learning things I should have learned at 18. I get so overwhelmed with things.
I don't know if this is something that interests you but I got this book in a cookbooks gift exchange and it has so many basic cooking things in it. If you are interested and look at the used section they have a bunch of books for 7 and 8 dollars including shipping.
how to cook everything the basics
The guy who wrote this takes nothing for granted. Down to teaching you how to properly boil water and noodles. How season food and scramble an egg to some basic but more advanced stuff. This book is a good idea for someone like me. He even shows you in the front step by step preparing and cutting things and basics things you can refer back too. There was even a pickle recipe me and my son did.
One of the biggest problems with answering questions like this is that Jews don't conceptualize G-d the same way Christians do. For Jews, there simply is no way of explaining G-d's actions because G-d is completely incomprehensible to humans.
There's literally an entire book written to help people with Christian backgrounds understand the Jewish view of G-d, written in part because these conversations always end up with both parties frustrated and with no clarity for the question asker.
Oh! Man, I have a whole shelf, lol.
For the basics, I really like Essential Judaism by George Robinson. He does a great job of explaining every denomination's practices without judgement, in an easy-to-understand way.
r/Judaism also has an entire reading list in their wiki, broken down by denomination. I believe their list has not only the religious aspect, but also books on Hebrew, the Holocaust, and antisemitism.
I bought a set of nylon knives and they work pretty well. I have to cut things into chunks and then she can chop them pretty well. At school, they use something like this for cutting: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001XXCYC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_WBBD671RZEP57TQQA47C