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[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]

+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.[/quote]

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