A Simple Tasks That a Large Percentage of Millennials Have No Clue How To Do (generations, elect)

[Old Town FFX]

Originally Posted by latimeria

Wait, aren't many of these millenials the children of boomers? Why weren't they taught these important skills by their parents?

This is the thing that cracks me up the most. They (boomers) lack any self awareness, apparently.

[tinytrump]

I don’t see these kids you keep talking about. Where are they ? Europe? I will only agree the age difference is off the charts. You have kids on cooking shows beat your crock pot chili any day - kids dancers and musicians from 5 yrs old. Young couples building tiny houses. Computer world -they left us all behind a long time ago- kids learning coding. Young scientists making robots. one kid invented some cure! They just doing things differently. They will change this world. I’m not at all worried - much talent out ther. And they listening to their own tunes.

[in_newengland]

Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA

How about knowing the difference between plural and possessive forms?

Right.

And I think that list is for boys. For instance, maybe a few girls strike a punching bag, but it's much more of a boy thing and so is carrying a 50 pound bag of animal feed on their shoulder, chopping wood for a woodstove, clean a pistol, swap out the hydraulic hose on a piece of farm equipment, chop down a dead tree with an axe.

Sure some girls can do those things, but this is mostly a list of boy stuff. And it's mostly obsolete or not very important boy stuff.

The exceptions might be that everyone should know how to cook, everyone should be able to read a food label, anyone should be able to plant a seed and grow food, and anyone should be able to hang their own shirt on the line.

Guess I'll go siphon the fuel out of an abandoned car now, lol. (which I have no clue how to do and I don't care either.)

[Clarallel]

Originally Posted by Originalist

While researching millennial's and their positive notions of Socialism I came across this:

40 shockingly simple things they have no clue how to do:

https://www.naturalnews.com/054708_m...eal_world.html

Now universities are offering no credit classes: "Adulting 101", which leads me to believe it must be a problem.

I could do most of these tasks as an adolescent. I was raised by a Grandfather who was in construction and went into the trades myself. My sons are both millennial's and they worked as helpers on jobs when they were teens. They could easily handle most of these tasks.

Many of them are so simple that I can't imagine even a child not being able to accomplish some of the tasks. The thing is, even if a small percentage of this is true, it's truly sad. I'd have to blame poor parenting.

The article idea was interesting, but he lost me by going overboard. Many of those are "guy" skills, and even though I'm not a millennial, I wouldn't have a clue on many of those. And I think that's true of many women. And carrying a 50-pound sack isn't a skill.

Some are funny, like not being able to sharpen a pencil, because presumably they exclusively use computers. So that should remind us that it's not a matter of stupidly but of exposure.

The GPS issue is something I've wondered about, though. I hate that stuff. I want to know where something is, not how to get there. It's up to me to decide how I want to get there. I don't want something to tell me "Go four blocks and turn left..." I want "It's on Main, one block south of Elm."

Fun, though. Thanks.

[ecko_complex24]

It seems that every generation looks at the following generation with some disdain. Although this one is pretty accurate.

[zentropa]

Originally Posted by Originalist

I asked my youngest son (33) and he said he could do 75% of the tasks. That was decent. Some of the things like cleaning a weapon are not in his schema. I understand that as I never exposed my sons to guns.

Your son the Millennial, you mean?

Do you know what a Millennial is? Hint, they are no longer in college.

[charolastra00]

These lists are so adorable.


My Boomer aged parents can't drive stick shift or change the oil in their cars. I don't believe my grandparents could either - or at least they couldn't remember by the time I was old enough to need someone to teach me. I know how to grow something in theory, but theory doesn't grow squat in a north-facing apartment with two windows. I wonder how many Millennials have yards to plant a garden in? My Boomer dad taught himself to garden through the library - neither his parents nor his grandparents kept their own.



Once upon a time, there was home ec, auto shop, and other classes in high school. Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back - you were taught, too. We had a quarter of home ec in middle school that didn't go beyond sewing a button and making mac and cheese. By the time high school rolled around, home ec was replaced by a broader core curriculum, shop classes were replaced by computer skills and programming class, and somehow our parents forgot to teach us what they learned.

But sure, blame Millennials for having the balls to say, "Hey, I don't know this!" and taking steps, like "adulting" class or YouTube videos, to learn how to do it.




P.S. I remember spending hours of class time learning how to write checks and balance a checkbook. I'm 31 years old and still have the original checkbook I got when I opened a bank account when I was 18 - and half the checks are still there! That's how rarely I have to use those skills. Balance a checkbook? Not a once.

[Ringo1]

I hate this generational blaming thing. I'm a Boomer and I've never made fun of Millenials nor do many boomers.

Heck, I raised a Millenial (I think depending on the cutoff age). He's 24.

None of his Boomer family taught him how to chop wood or work on a farm because . . . that's not how we live.

[Eumaois]

"#30) Intelligently read any food label."
How do you dumbly read a food label?

[zentropa]

And where on earth did this silly "data" come from?