My son-in-law’s niece came to visit them last summer. She was 16 from Cincinnati. She could not tell time on an analog clock....................
Definitely don’t tell them to turn stuff on or off clockwise or counterclockwise!
I'm seeing a LOT of that with teens.
>>She was 16 from Cincinnati. She could not tell time on an analog clock...
Many years ago, my mom told me a story about a kid in her elementary school (she was the school nurse). The girl asked where the pencil sharpener was and my mom pointed to it in the corner.
“Your pencil sharpener is broken”
“Really? Let me check. No, it works, you have to turn the handle.”
The girl had never used a hand-crank sharpener.
I sometimes worry if I ever lost my job through a company downsizing what I would do, other than start my own consulting business. I really don’t think I have much to worry about.
My stepdaughter has a forty year old husband who is letting the rafters rot on their house because he doesn’t know how to make a simple roof patch on a very low slope shingle roof and he has spent the money that should go to home repair on expensive lunches and season tickets to ball games at his favorite school. He is hoping a hail storm will come along and they will get a new roof paid for by insurance before the house falls down. They have two sons, one just turned eleven and the other will be fourteen in January and these boys are learning NOTHING from their father about how to make it in the real world. They are experts at video gaming though. By age eleven I was a farm hand when I wasn’t in school and by fourteen I knew how to grow a crop without any further instruction from anyone. I had an older brother who turned fourteen shortly after I turned eleven just like these two and by the time my older brother was fourteen we were taking care of the farm while my father worked construction. I didn’t realize at the time how fortunate I was. I see young “adults” now acting hopelessly stumped by the sort of little problems that we were handling with ease as teenagers. We could have patched that roof before breakfast on a Saturday morning. Re roofing the whole house would have been a matter of my father getting a couple of neighbors to help us and it would have been done in a day for the cost of materials. The old American “can do” attitude seems to be nearly dead.
Our neighbor is a teacher and one of her students asked her what the time was since she had forgotten her cell phone. The teacher pointed to the clock behind her desk and the kid had no clue what time it was either.