Too many parents expect kids to learn common sense on their own. It still needs to be taught

@MaiKanez

25 күн бұрын

Nope you have got to learn it yourself. Who do you think taught your parents common sense? Yesteryear parents were not always hovering over their kids teaching them everything, we were told to go play outside with our friends, we walked everywhere and that sense of adventure largely contributed to learning common sense .

@patrickbueno3279

25 күн бұрын

​@@MaiKanezcommon sense is a misnomer, because what's common in one generation might not be true to the other, even in single generation different groups have different commonality.

@MaiKanez

24 күн бұрын

@@patrickbueno3279 bottom line is kids need to be allowed to fully interact with their world without parental hovering or technology to learn their version of common sense.

@jaderivers8939

17 күн бұрын

True 😊

This is a funny take considering how many older people struggle with recent tech

@ZomboidMania

25 күн бұрын

Exactly, let's stop bitching about what each generation can and can't do, we are all from different times

Pretty sure that gen z didn't fall out of the sky or wash up from the ocean. They were raised by the very generations bitching about them. Next time you wanna make fun of them, they learned it from you.

@Wownerd1265

25 күн бұрын

To be fair he did ask "did we fail" although I admit to having some of the same reaction to the now 1000's of years old meme that the new generation is the downfall of civilization.

Lacking "common sense" here meaning not knowing how to use a very specific and uncommon mechanism that they've never encountered before I don't think we should be hard on kids for being unfamiliar with or perplexed by something that is to them very novel Besides, we REALLY don't want to get into an argument about what each generation doesn't know how to do...

@santosdr2

26 күн бұрын

deductive reasons prevailed in the end.

@santosdr2

26 күн бұрын

Every generation doesn't know how to do what they don't know how to do, until they learn how to do what they've learned to do.

@binebine9780

26 күн бұрын

@@sevrono well said😂

@ddz1375

25 күн бұрын

Trial and error as well as deductive reasoning skills would have helped. Are those being taught anymore?

to be fair those things are not super common

@ddz1375

25 күн бұрын

What ever happened to just figuring shit out. Common or not observational skills and reasoning could have had the basic workings of the thing understood almost immediately.

@joshuasands9440

25 күн бұрын

I mean we have a few of them where I work and the first time I saw them I knew they were pedal activated because of the large pedal ring going all the way around it and how rustic they look Edit: and I'm not even in my 30s yet either

This just mocking the ignorant. I'm 37 years old and so far I've never seen a water fountain that is pedal activated in my country. I'm sure I'll be just as confused for a minute. You can never know how all devices operate from the get go.

@MyRx777z

17 күн бұрын

I saw one of these back in my days and I'm 40. This type of water basin was in those public rest stop along the highway. When i was young and had to use a paper map and was driving along the highway. That was how i saw it, and i still remember it. How nostalgic.

Had one of these in my highschool automech shop in the 90s.. I had no idea what to do at first. The need to step on the ring is in no way intuitive.

@Just_Call_Me_Tim

25 күн бұрын

It’s not intuitive, but trying things that match the apparent age of the device sure helps reveal it with a quickness.

@MartinFinnerup

25 күн бұрын

​@@Just_Call_Me_Tim Maybe, but that requires you to know what interactions would be common based on the age. And it requires you to correctly asses the age.

Lmao imagine being triggered because times change and some things aren’t in use or needed anymore. Tell me sir, do you know how to use a spinning wheel? Or maybe you still ride your horse to work and have a chamber pot. And for the record, grew up with these in primary school, you got baited

@stevecampbell7620

25 күн бұрын

Yea WE had all those things in 1963

@ddz1375

25 күн бұрын

Figuring shit out has nothing to do with modernity or older technology. Deductive reasoning is a thing or it used to be.

@zakkmylde1712

25 күн бұрын

​@@ddz1375if a generation lacks deductive reasoning that's not on them its on the parents, guardians and role models who failed to teach and encourage deductive reasoning. Same applies to common sense and common courtesy. The amount of young morons today says more about gen x and older millennials than it does about them.

Can't blame him for being confused, I've never seen one of those things in my life

@Nocure92

25 күн бұрын

I mean it looks high tech and modern as fuck, so it gotta have motion sensors and voice activation right? Sarcasm

Common sense comes from people having to figure it out for themselves.

@zakkmylde1712

25 күн бұрын

And people are supposed to figure these common things out by example, because you know it's supposed to be common occurrence. If the young are lacking common sense it's because for those who came before it's not all that common. The same argument can be made for common decency, so many lack it because those who predate them decided it should be applicable to everyone but themselves.

@javrak

25 күн бұрын

@@zakkmylde1712 Wisdom, whether through education or experience.

Back in 2yr college my high school classmate and I were in ET. We walked into the locker room, he dropped trow and pissed in the sink. Then turned around and saw the urinal. I died right there!😂😂😂😂😂

Damn he seriously said, " WATER" OMG

"The hamster got on the wheel. Congratulations." 😂 I'm pretty sure he wouldn't get that either.

Dear parents, common sense is a taught behavior. If you think your kid doesn't know anything, you might wanna take a good look at your own teaching

Bud Abbott pulled the same trick on Lou Costello in their film "Who Done It?" in 1944.

It’s lousy parenting. Plain and simple. Common sense is not common as instinct.

@joylesstiger

25 күн бұрын

You're right! I'm going to get my life turned around and start teaching my kids about foot operated handwashing stations so this doesn't happen again.

I once saw a guy waving his hands in front of a restroom door at Heathrow airport trying to get it to automatically open. He asked me how it works. It was a manual door so I told him to push! 😁

I saw those fountains in middle school and then never saw them again. Those are not common at all 😭

We GenX'ersplayed outside & in doing so we obtained our street smarts. Handing a toddler an iPod instead of kicking them outside to play... they just slam their own heads into closed doors now. 😂😂😂😂

I'm younger end gen z, and I had that in my elementary school and even in one of the bathrooms in my high school, twf is happening here!?!?

Gotta scan the QR code, and if I ever find out what that means I'll show you where it is lol

They'll unlock drawing on paper next.

"...download an app." I'm dead! XD

For all those complaining about making fun of this kid not knowing how to use this type of thing, I’ve only seen about two of these but somehow, I just looked at it and knew I needed to step on the weird thing underneath. Guess what generation I’m from. 🤣🤣🤣

Both, those options aren't mutually exclusive 😂

Crocs & socks… straight from Idiocracy.

I would raise my kids much better. Rule#1: Don't bring kids in a world rapidly going to hell at exponential speed.

The answer is yes. And that thing is so not standard that many people would struggle.

@jenschristiantvilum

25 күн бұрын

And this has nothing to do with "common sense".

shakes my head

You need to read Neil Howe's works, especially The Fourth Turning. Each generation belong to an archetype.

Alright, gramps. How many times do older generations need to be taught how to "open the google"? It's not actually an example of common knowledge.

I’ve seen orangutans figure out a damned hand saw quicker than this kid figured out a foot-pedal activated sink. It’s old enough, and looks it, to need some kind of physical activation.

@scoobasteve1844

25 күн бұрын

You would be surprised at how many people (of all ages) you can get to yell at stuff, with a simple "voice activated" sticker... even if it's something that clearly isn't voice activated

Its not us Technology has failed the Future generations and they keep giving more. We cant just not live in the world without it at the pint and it does mae the kids dumb to the ways of the past. They expect everything instantly and like everything happens and they don't understand how

No they didn’t learn it from me. Not from lack of trying but I was kinda blown away by all the nonsense that was rattling around in their heads, things like woke schools and social media and trophies for showing up. New math and phonics and computers and moms who always stood in the way of good solid punishments and I am not talking wracking them either. Had one call welfare on me when she was nine because I wouldn’t let her play until her homework was done. Trying to make me look abusive. So no they didn’t learn what they needed because I couldn’t get through all the trash of the new life. So blaming me is not the right thing blame all your social justice warriors and you child psychologists that came up with truly stupid ideas and forced them on us. Blame the courts for taking dads away. Blame the teachers who taught an elementary school girl how to report abuse. In the old days I would have had my ass tanned so I couldn’t sit for a couple days. I did have that done when me an two cousins were jumping of a five story building with a home made parachute, we did it five times each until stupid jumped off with an umbrella and broke his leg in two places. So we learned the hard way. Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be done.

Let's see, the kids nowadays grow up with everything having a touch screen or being voice activated and you're wondering why they're confused when something isn't? Yeah, the older generations have failed the younger generations if they wanted them to learn what they know they should have taught them. I'm 28, but I've been in the trades long enough to know how that stuff works. I'm one of those "lazy millennials" I guess because I think it's unfair what your generation and generations before you have done to our current generations trying to buy houses or just live because this economy is screwed.

i’m no longer helping boomers with technology.

I would give so much to go back to the way things were in the 90's

Good for you find me a 100 more and I'll give you credit

This proves nothing.

Yes we did Stopped watching after first question

I bet It feels good for your knowledge to be more useful than our knowledge for once doesn't it huh boomer? Don't worry next time your Wi-Fi isn't working we won't do you like this when you ask us for help