Most kids would be screwed if we ever had to use a rotary phone. I watched some YouTube video of parents asking their children how to use them. They were clueless.
I tell my kids that if the SHTF, they need to keep me around for at least a year since I know how to work manual tools, can identify edible plants, have a basic idea how to garden and raise chickens, and know how to read an actual map. They will be screwed without me.
I laughed at your comment because it's so true. I've been teaching mine how garden, use tools, troubleshoot and repair cars, forage, shoot guns which they enjoy, and more. We live out in a very rural area. It sounds like you are too. It's a different way of life out here vs the city.
Reminds me of that book Fahreinheit 450 - remember the "Book People"??? We'll become the "Typewriter People" or the "Analog Phone People" or the "Garden People"...works for "moi"!
My daughter wouldn’t allow her little boys to get a watch or have digital clocks until they were able to tell time on an analog clock. And they both could tell time by the time they were in preschool.
A brilliant but brain-deficient woman developed ever-more-difficult clock exercises to fix her brain. Barbara Arrowsmith, she wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain. And developed a program around it that is taught to struggling kids with great success - The Arrowsmith Program. Smart daughter you have there, clocks are an excellent brain exercise.
I probably should have done this. My daughter continues to insist that she "can't" read time off analog clocks and only checks her phone (though I'm 99% sure it's actually just because she's lazy and doesn't want to think enough to figure out which hours the hands are sitting between).
My daughter who is 32 yo, always very intellectual and graduated college with a 4.0 average was never able to master the analog clock. She’s somewhat embarrassed about it. It seems like maybe we missed a developmental window and waited too long to teach her 🤷♀️
I was subjected to my Medicare "annual wellness" exam last week. (Mostly questions to test you for cognitive decline so they can call Adult Protective Services and have you evicted from your home.) One test I had to draw an analog clock face and then the hands showing 10 minutes past 10. I wonder how long until everybody fails that test because they were never taught to read an analog clock?
I asked about it once, but they said you can't discuss your 'issues' at that time, it's not that kind of appt. I'd have to make a separate appt to discuss my thyroid. Never mind. Now I'm glad I never gave medicare that much info.
Most kids would be screwed if we ever had to use a rotary phone. I watched some YouTube video of parents asking their children how to use them. They were clueless.
I tell my kids that if the SHTF, they need to keep me around for at least a year since I know how to work manual tools, can identify edible plants, have a basic idea how to garden and raise chickens, and know how to read an actual map. They will be screwed without me.
I laughed at your comment because it's so true. I've been teaching mine how garden, use tools, troubleshoot and repair cars, forage, shoot guns which they enjoy, and more. We live out in a very rural area. It sounds like you are too. It's a different way of life out here vs the city.
Skills can be bartered as well as products. Good to teach the younger generation.
Reminds me of that book Fahreinheit 450 - remember the "Book People"??? We'll become the "Typewriter People" or the "Analog Phone People" or the "Garden People"...works for "moi"!
Now ask those kids to tell you the time by looking at an analog clock.
My daughter wouldn’t allow her little boys to get a watch or have digital clocks until they were able to tell time on an analog clock. And they both could tell time by the time they were in preschool.
Smart mom. 👍
A brilliant but brain-deficient woman developed ever-more-difficult clock exercises to fix her brain. Barbara Arrowsmith, she wrote The Woman Who Changed Her Brain. And developed a program around it that is taught to struggling kids with great success - The Arrowsmith Program. Smart daughter you have there, clocks are an excellent brain exercise.
I probably should have done this. My daughter continues to insist that she "can't" read time off analog clocks and only checks her phone (though I'm 99% sure it's actually just because she's lazy and doesn't want to think enough to figure out which hours the hands are sitting between).
My daughter who is 32 yo, always very intellectual and graduated college with a 4.0 average was never able to master the analog clock. She’s somewhat embarrassed about it. It seems like maybe we missed a developmental window and waited too long to teach her 🤷♀️
I was subjected to my Medicare "annual wellness" exam last week. (Mostly questions to test you for cognitive decline so they can call Adult Protective Services and have you evicted from your home.) One test I had to draw an analog clock face and then the hands showing 10 minutes past 10. I wonder how long until everybody fails that test because they were never taught to read an analog clock?
I asked about it once, but they said you can't discuss your 'issues' at that time, it's not that kind of appt. I'd have to make a separate appt to discuss my thyroid. Never mind. Now I'm glad I never gave medicare that much info.
Not sure most docs know the answer anyway!
LOL! I know it's pathetic. Or using a manual can opener.