Being back basic skills!!!!

[Anonymous]

Op, about 15% of what you say is true. You are, though, just a little unhinged. Not your fault but you need to protect yourself. Certainly get off tic tock. Be much more careful re: where you are getting your news.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I can totally see the value in knowing what a DVD is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:cops and robbers? Is this a basic life skill? My kids play "infection" #PandemicLife.

haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is proof reading a basic skill?

Proof writing is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many of these so-called basic skills were intertwined with the traditional nuclear family, lead by a cis-gender white male.

No thanks.

Gay purple attack prefer block letters? Who knew?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Granny/troll, all of those things you list are obsolete. Nobody needs to know how to do them. It is like you are complaining that they can’t read Morse code or break ice from the lake for the icebox.

Kids can’t count money because cash is obsolete. Did you actually had a store clerk a $20 bill? It is hard to picture that. Don’t do that anymore. Everyone uses Apple Pay or credit cards now.

They can’t write checks or use mail because nobody does those things either. Use Zelle or email instead and join the 21st century.

The DVD was where you started to give yourself away. That’s just ludicrous, even before we get to cops and robbers and monopoly.

I don’t understand how people have the time to post fake posts for strangers to respond to.

This. I don't think any of the things OP listed will be relevant to my 11 year old when he's an adult. I doubt he will ever write a check in his life. He won't use dvds (though he does know how to use them) because they have been obsolete for 10 years already. He will never need to figure out exact change. Other than a $5 tip to a valet or cash (in even $20s) to various service workers (housecleaner, tutors), I don't think I've used cash in 10+ years. I promise you my son won't be using cash as an adult. DS can read and write in cursive (badly), but he will never need this skill. All correspondence is in digital print, not cursive. And writing a letter? The only reason anyone ever writes a hardcopy letter anymore is to placate grandma and grandad. Other than xmas cards and thank you notes, I haven't received a personal snail mail letter in..... decades? Once the boomers die, no one will ever mail a letter again.

Every instance cited by the OP has been obsolete for 10 years+. They aren't "basic" skills. They are old person skills. I was born in 1978, and this would be like someone complaining to me in 1988 that I didn't know how to use betamax, 8-track, a computer punch card system, or know how to crank an engine to start it in winter.

OP - you suck.

[Anonymous]

The older generation needs to realize that what we consider "basic skills" needs to change as times and technology change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Granny/troll, all of those things you list are obsolete. Nobody needs to know how to do them. It is like you are complaining that they can’t read Morse code or break ice from the lake for the icebox.

Kids can’t count money because cash is obsolete. Did you actually had a store clerk a $20 bill? It is hard to picture that. Don’t do that anymore. Everyone uses Apple Pay or credit cards now.

They can’t write checks or use mail because nobody does those things either. Use Zelle or email instead and join the 21st century.

The DVD was where you started to give yourself away. That’s just ludicrous, even before we get to cops and robbers and monopoly.

I don’t understand how people have the time to post fake posts for strangers to respond to.

This. I don't think any of the things OP listed will be relevant to my 11 year old when he's an adult. I doubt he will ever write a check in his life. He won't use dvds (though he does know how to use them) because they have been obsolete for 10 years already. He will never need to figure out exact change. Other than a $5 tip to a valet or cash (in even $20s) to various service workers (housecleaner, tutors), I don't think I've used cash in 10+ years. I promise you my son won't be using cash as an adult. DS can read and write in cursive (badly), but he will never need this skill. All correspondence is in digital print, not cursive. And writing a letter? The only reason anyone ever writes a hardcopy letter anymore is to placate grandma and grandad. Other than xmas cards and thank you notes, I haven't received a personal snail mail letter in..... decades? Once the boomers die, no one will ever mail a letter again.

Every instance cited by the OP has been obsolete for 10 years+. They aren't "basic" skills. They are old person skills. I was born in 1978, and this would be like someone complaining to me in 1988 that I didn't know how to use betamax, 8-track, a computer punch card system, or know how to crank an engine to start it in winter.

OP - you suck.

I didn’t think it was possible, but you’re even more annoying than OP.

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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...

Add to this list not being able to tell time. No one uses clocks.