The Wordsmith's Forge

>>* Nor does Enid have any idea how exhausting her social demands are for Wednesday to perform -- even something as "simple" as apologizing to Thing. There go all of Wednesday's spoons for today and tomorrow. O_O (Though to be fair, Wednesday doesn't realize it costs Enid spoons to articulate things that a fellow Hint friend would simply intuit.)<<

I've had people demand I do stuff I don't want to do...and then when I give in, the goalpoasts move and I still am not 'good enough.' Annoying! :/

>>Or at least point her to useful books.<<

Would Nevermore have useful books? Most of the information on this seems to be fairly recent, and a decent chunk of that is on the internet. Most magic school stories posit that the magicals/Fae/whomever have a more traditional mindset, and Wednesday at least seems to hold true to that. (To be fair, Enid and Xavier have smartphones...but that still doesn't imply anything about the library. Maybe one of them could special-order a book, if they know a good one?)

>>I don't see age as a limit. It'd help.<<

I usually hear of people getting them for jobs/social positions that are a bit more demanding than what a high-schooler would have. Plus (while it may not apply to the Addamses,) for most people, hiring an assistant for their kid would not be cost effective.

>>That'd be a disaster, because he is a nerd, and nerds typically don't have great social skills. Certainly Eugene doesn't. Enid would be great at that, but she and Wednesday would have to figure out a lot of other stuff first.<<

Ah, but Eugene would be the most likely person to go along with Wednesday demanding "You! Deal with this [people stuff]!"* It would go horribly wrong, and Enid would likely get stuck trying to sort it all out anyway (though that could be a good nudge towards her prompting Wednesday and possibly Eugene to try new social skills).
*Enid would demand social reciprocity, Xavier would say no in a huff, Biance would say no and laugh.

>>It's like plugging in a lamp, it doesn't run without an energy source.<<

And the energy source has to match. Lamps run on electric, people run on pizza!

>>So I wonder if he's got the "how to manage allies" skills, which he could present to Wednesday.<<

As long as he doesn't try to outsource the lessons to Morticia. (Sometimes people will do this, assuming that other people can fix something because the assigning person wants it to be so - and people don't work that way.)

>>Then again, she is most enthusiastic about Uncle Fester -- she actually smiled when she saw him, as contrasted with her surly greeting of Thing -- which makes me suspect he's the "fun uncle" who does wild things with her and doesn't expect much if any actual work.<<

They seem to be the closest match personality-wise ("Well, I /do/ like stabbing things"), and in most iterations he is the freestyle confirmed bachelor uncle, which would be fairly appealing to a teenager who is in "I-don't-want-marriage-and-kids-and-eff-social-convention" mode.

I wonder if Uncle Fester might teach her some social skills? He'd need some, however unconventional, if he has stayed ahead of the law for so long. Plus he hangs around with outcasts from the Outcast community*, and people like that tend to have interesting perspective on the system and how to hack them.
*He mentioned having a Hyde friend (or girlfriend? not sure) at one point