Reply to Being back basic skills!!!!

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Being back basic skills!!!!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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). [/quote]
Mailing a letter, how to write a check are definitely things kids should learn.

How to play "cops and robbers" (which is s dumb game, actually), and monopoly aren't important.  Having stated that, my 18 and 15 yr old know how to play Monopoly.  They love board games. I hate them.  They also know what a DVD.

The issue with the simple math problem at the cash register is not a new thing.  It happened to me years ago.  A woman at the till didn't know how to figure out how much 1/4" x 4 x $3 was.

IMO, financial literacy is more important than anything OP has stated, but it's not just Gen Z that needs to learn it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics