Besides Academics, What Should Kids Have Mastered?

What should kids know when they leave high school? I mean, besides the academic stuff.   danah boyd has one reflection.  The Healy brothers have a website and a book.

danah boyd writes,

There should be a list of things that youth should learn as young as possible to be a part of society. If i were to start a list, it would probably include:

• Learn to manage your own money including situations where you don't have enough money for something really important;
  
• Work to make your own money;
  
• Learn how to come up with money for monthly bills;
  
• Learn how to cook, clean, and do laundry;
  
• Learn how to take care of small children;
  
• Learn how to handle sickness and doctors;
  
• Learn how to travel (airplane, bus, etc.) on your own;
  
• Learn to travel respectfully to foreign cultures;
  
• Learn how to handle being drunk;
  
• Experience being bullied, embarrassed, ridiculed, taunted, beaten up;
  
• Be exposed to people really different than you and learn tolerance and respect;
  
• Face failure and learn disappointment + face success and learn humility;
  
• Experience heartbreak;
  
• Manage significant emotional or physical pain;
  
• Handle the death of someone close to you.
  

Obviously, some of these are taboo and others really shouldn't be planned for but still, i have to say, this is what i'd want my child to know before being on their own. I have to give my mom props for making certain i knew many of these things. My favorite was the fact that she made me work in fast food to learn why i was getting a college education. Anyone else have favorite lessons that they wish all young people learned?