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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College professor here. How tf am I supposed to teach social skills. I'm trying to teach them real skills. If their parents/elementary school failed then I guess it's too late. You don't just randomly learn social skills at age 20 - actually, the fact that you would even imagine that suggests to me that OP has no social skills either.[/quote]

That's not true. I wasn't taught a lot of things as a child and I had to learn a lot of social skills (particularly hogging the conversation) on my own. It sucked but I did it. I am not sure what motivated me though. I think it was a mixture of mentors and social consequences from both superiors and peers. If my peers hadn't given me funny looks I'm not sure I would have though.

I don't interact with any Gen Zs besides DC, but my husband is big law partner and says that a lot of Gen Zs don't realize that you are supposed to talk to partners--people who will decide whether or not to help your career based on your interactions with them--differently than your peers. He says that when they socialize they talk about things like feeling insecure about how well they are doing in their jobs. No inappropriate phone use at dinner, but still lacking in social skills. For me, the phone is an easy one as a parent to teach. We have family dinner most nights of the week and nobody is allowed to have their phone at the table. But we haven't practiced the idea that you speak to your boss differently than your friends. I really can't believe that somebody just wouldn't naturally pick up on that like I did but I guess we have to teach that too! [/quote]

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