While I was writing an essay about whether schools should teach children basic parenting skills, I wanted to paraphrase "parenting skills". Therefore, I used "skills to look after their offspring" instead of "parenting skills". Could someone please let me know whether it is feasible to replace "parenting skills" with "skills to look after their offspring". If it is not, please let me know what are the possible alternatives to "parenting" or "parenting skills".
Therefore, many critics conjecture that educational institutes should take initiatives to equip their students with skills to look after their offspring.
Hmm. This is a tough one. Do you absolutely have to replace 'parenting skills' with something else?
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Hmm. This is a tough one.
Do you absolutely have to replace 'parenting skills' with something else? That's a pretty fixed phrase. It wouldn't be bad to use that just as it is.
Besides 'look after their offspring' is a bit awkward. It's not wrong, and you could use it, but at a minimum I'd change 'offspring' to 'children'.
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