Being back basic skills!!!!

[Anonymous]

While I know how to write a check if I had to, I haven’t had to in over a dozen years. I use online banking and can send a check through my bank’s app.

[Anonymous]

Op, basic skills like … typing and proofreading your work?

[Anonymous]

They can Google all those things if they really need to. But I’m solidly a Millennial and I hardly ever mail anything - just the occasional birthday card. I haven’t watched a DVD in years. Very few people do cursive writing anymore - my Boomer parents and relatives all print especially when kids are going to be reading it. I don’t think Monopoly or Cops and Robbers is a life skill. You should know your parents phone numbers and address though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are 74 and have a TikTok account? I’m impressed. I don’t and my 74 year old father definitely doesn’t.

Nobody with a brain has a tiktok account with the app taking all your information.

[Anonymous]

The basic skills a teen needs to learn have changed. That is all.

[Anonymous]

You don't need to know how to mail a letter. It's not hard to look it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, basic skills like … typing and proofreading your work?

Also using proper grammar!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't need to teach people things they don't need to know how to do anymore.

And as far as the letter thing goes, my DH's nephew is a younger millennial and he didn't know how to address a letter. Which my boomer DH found shocking. Admittedly, I did too.

But they don't need to know about DVDs, and we don't need them to be playing "cops and robbers" (for many reasons).

+1. I am 43 and don't know how to use a typewriter, which my parents and grandparents considered essential. But it never has been for me. I have needed to use one exactly once in my life. Everything is done on computer. Ditto rotary phone (I mean I used one a couple times as a kid so I could probably figure it out) and, I'm sure, a host of other things that simply don't figure into my life because technology has changed.

My kids know what DVDs are because we have some, but honestly, we never use them. Everything is streaming. So they don't really need to know what they are. Ditto checks if you never write checks, letters if you never mail letters.

Basic math is different and people have been complaining about cashiers' lack of math skills for decades, so that is not generational.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 74 years old, and not sure what is true or not. Last time I asked my daughter question about gen Z she told me, that my granddaughter knew most of them. But why is it 90% of Gen Z don't even know how to mail a letter? They don't know people addresses or even their own address? They don't know their parents phone number.. they don't know what a check is, they don't know what a DVD is.... they don't know anything... they don't know what Monoploy game is.. they don't know even the games cops and robbers..........
I been following a mother and son on TikTok and the mom will ask the gen z 15 year old son questions he doesn't know anything......: what's going on? Parents get off your phone and start teaching them, 7 hours a day of school isn't a lot do them to learn life skills.
Also saw some articles on MSN, saying adult kids will never move out of the house. It's not strange if you're 30 and move out. 95% of 26 year old with full time jobs are living at home...::
Some of them will never work because parents will give them all the money they want. I just don't want to be in a word where people don't work anymore.....::

I was at the store at the other day and I paid the girl didn't know how to do 20.00-12.95... I had to help her count and I should've stayed in standby if she needed me but didn't have time..
I just hope when they are in their 60s they start doing something on their own because parents won't be able to provide for ever...

Who cares if they don't know what a check? when is the last time I paid via check? 2018?

Don't know what a DVD is? We don't even have a DVD player in our house!

you're upset because people don't know basic skills from the previous century. gimme a break

[Anonymous]

You too Grandma.
I have 4 kids and I feel like this is the generation where grandparents have totally taken a backseat and no longer meaningfully engage with their grandkids.
The whole "it takes a village" concept seems to have died with the last generation.
Instead now, old people and randos are simply posting on social media, all their gripes about kids.
Well, darn, it's no surprise that defunding education, closing schools for COVID, taking away homework, teaching cursive, teaching etiquette and manners, etc. has caused kids to fall behind. And double working parents (due to economy) aren't able to splve every problem.

Do something Granny! work with kids to help

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't need to teach people things they don't need to know how to do anymore.

And as far as the letter thing goes, my DH's nephew is a younger millennial and he didn't know how to address a letter. Which my boomer DH found shocking. Admittedly, I did too.

But they don't need to know about DVDs, and we don't need them to be playing "cops and robbers" (for many reasons).

+1

My college age kids know how to write a letter and address an envelope and know what DVDs are. As for writing a check, they have never had to do that and probably never will so I don't think it's a worthwhile skill. I write maybe one or two checks a year at most nowadays.

I loved growing up in the 70s/80s it was good times. But I love all the advances in technology.

[Anonymous]

This thread is full of stupid people:

1. Yes, teens are not AI robots and they're unsure of things you know very well that they have not been exposed to much, like writing out and mailing a letter. All it takes is teaching them. It's like laundry.

2. Yes, some teens are clueless, but others are very on the ball. If you go out of your way to look for the clueless ones, then what are you complaining about? You just love to cricitize, don't you!

3. A lot of the activities on OP's list are null and void. Nobody needs to know about board games unless they wish to, for example.

4. OP et al. sound BATSHIT CRAZY spewing hate and negativity about the younger generation. Keep in mind that the youngsters might not visit you in the old folks home, OR PAY FOR IT EITHER, if you continue in that vein...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 74 years old, and not sure what is true or not. Last time I asked my daughter question about gen Z she told me, that my granddaughter knew most of them. But why is it 90% of Gen Z don't even know how to mail a letter? They don't know people addresses or even their own address? They don't know their parents phone number.. they don't know what a check is, they don't know what a DVD is.... they don't know anything... they don't know what Monoploy game is.. they don't know even the games cops and robbers..........
I been following a mother and son on TikTok and the mom will ask the gen z 15 year old son questions he doesn't know anything......: what's going on? Parents get off your phone and start teaching them, 7 hours a day of school isn't a lot do them to learn life skills.
Also saw some articles on MSN, saying adult kids will never move out of the house. It's not strange if you're 30 and move out. 95% of 26 year old with full time jobs are living at home...::
Some of them will never work because parents will give them all the money they want. I just don't want to be in a word where people don't work anymore.....::

I was at the store at the other day and I paid the girl didn't know how to do 20.00-12.95... I had to help her count and I should've stayed in standby if she needed me but didn't have time..
I just hope when they are in their 60s they start doing something on their own because parents won't be able to provide for ever...

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I've noticed that most women your age don't know how not to be judgmental, which is a very basic life skill. Get to practicing, because you've got very little time left!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 74 years old, and not sure what is true or not. Last time I asked my daughter question about gen Z she told me, that my granddaughter knew most of them. But why is it 90% of Gen Z don't even know how to mail a letter? They don't know people addresses or even their own address? They don't know their parents phone number.. they don't know what a check is, they don't know what a DVD is.... they don't know anything... they don't know what Monoploy game is.. they don't know even the games cops and robbers..........
I been following a mother and son on TikTok and the mom will ask the gen z 15 year old son questions he doesn't know anything......: what's going on? Parents get off your phone and start teaching them, 7 hours a day of school isn't a lot do them to learn life skills.
Also saw some articles on MSN, saying adult kids will never move out of the house. It's not strange if you're 30 and move out. 95% of 26 year old with full time jobs are living at home...::
Some of them will never work because parents will give them all the money they want. I just don't want to be in a word where people don't work anymore.....::

I was at the store at the other day and I paid the girl didn't know how to do 20.00-12.95... I had to help her count and I should've stayed in standby if she needed me but didn't have time..
I just hope when they are in their 60s they start doing something on their own because parents won't be able to provide for ever...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't need to teach people things they don't need to know how to do anymore.

And as far as the letter thing goes, my DH's nephew is a younger millennial and he didn't know how to address a letter. Which my boomer DH found shocking. Admittedly, I did too.

But they don't need to know about DVDs, and we don't need them to be playing "cops and robbers" (for many reasons).

They've made up a new form of hide and seek - "Quiet Place" based on, you guessed it, the movie "A Quiet Place."

I'm 51 and was always bad at "in your head" math. I was not proficient at calculating change until I waited tables in high school. I went to college and law school. I have a good job.

It's gonna be ok, OP.