Dalai Mama
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Post by Dalai Mama on Aug 8, 2015 15:44:54 GMT
That is a pretty common phenomenon that is completely unrelated to intelligence (doesn't matter if she's a teacher or a MENSA member). Some of us are just hard-wired differently and no amount of holding our thumbs and forefingers up, or looking at our wedding rings (which I'm forever putting on the wrong hand anyway) is going to change it.
Just to be clear, some teachers ARE MENSA members. Your post makes it sound as though teachers are at the bottom of the intelligence scale. It's not a huge secret that I used to be a teacher but, if you choose to infer a dig, I certainly won't stop you.
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Nicole in TX
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Post by Nicole in TX on Aug 8, 2015 15:54:09 GMT
Regarding knowing left and right If you teach younger children, the teacher often has to demonstrate left/right--and if the teacher is facing the class, the teacher must raise the incorrect hand, otherwise the children NEVER get the concept. And, speaking from experience, then when the teacher is out in the real world, her brain is confused regarding left/right. And along this line, I can see why a doctor might try to operate on the wrong side. The patient's right and left is different then the doctor's write and left. I would write on myself with a sharpie if I ever needed to for surgery!
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Post by AnotherPea on Aug 8, 2015 15:54:23 GMT
Just to be clear, some teachers ARE MENSA members. Your post makes it sound as though teachers are at the bottom of the intelligence scale. It's not a huge secret that I used to be a teacher but, if you choose to infer a dig, I certainly won't stop you. No dig inferred. Just putting it out there
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Post by Tamhugh on Aug 8, 2015 16:37:02 GMT
Older DS is a pretty smart kid. He got really good grades in high school. Went on tho graduate from the honors college at a major university and has a successful career going at 25. When he was a senior in high school, he went to a wedding as the date of a good friend. I picked them up and asked about the bride's dress. The girl said that it was beautiful, but not something she would pick because it was ivory and not white. DS laughed and said, "well, she couldn't have worn white. She has a child. The priest has to know that she has had sex".
He honestly thought that it wasn't only a tradition, but an actual rule that a bride could not wear white if she had sex.
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Post by tanya2 on Aug 8, 2015 17:03:32 GMT
ok is anyone else reading this thread thinking "i wonder if my kids knows how to do that?" this one amazed me - and the woman i'm talking about here is in her early 30s - but we were in NYC last year & stopped at Strawberry Fields, and she asked me why everyone was taking pics of the Dakota & the memorial & why it was a big deal. I know my kids aren't great with analog clocks either and neither of them knows cursive
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Post by Dalai Mama on Aug 8, 2015 19:20:44 GMT
It's not a huge secret that I used to be a teacher but, if you choose to infer a dig, I certainly won't stop you. No dig inferred. Just putting it out there If you think that my post sounds like I'm claiming 'teachers are at the bottom of the intelligence scale' how is that not an inferred dig?
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Post by Scrapbrat on Aug 9, 2015 11:35:50 GMT
My college son had to provide an addressed envelope to a prof from whom he was asking for a recommendation letter. See where I'm going here..? I had to text him a photo of a business envelope I'd addressed. He'd never done it before, and wasn't sure where everything went. Also, he'd never bought stamps before. My DS is similar. He gets very perplexed when he has to mail something. First year in college, I left him once with some TY cards and stamps. He insisted to me that there was no where close to him that he could mail a letter. I said, ask at the front desk in your dorm. Of course, they took mail right there, and as he lives in a large university town, I knew there were also mailboxes all over. His latest thing is insisting there aren't any UPS drop boxes near him. He has to return a rented textbook. Oh, and he us another who has a lot of trouble with analog clocks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 11:49:49 GMT
A young lady who worked at the same store my dh works asked him what an "ice tray" was. She had it in her had and said, Mr. X, what is this thing? He thought it was very funny. She was amazed there was a time when the fridge didnt make ice for you.
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Post by *leslie* on Aug 10, 2015 0:46:02 GMT
This usually happens with pop culture references. A few days ago my husband and I were telling a story to my son, his girlfriend, our daughter and her best friend about a lake trip we took years ago. A sudden storm came up and we had to find a cove for the boats to wait it out. So there we are just standing in the water holding on to boats and someone started singing the Gilligan Island theme song and all 20+ of us joined in. At the end of story, there were 4 blank faces staring back at us. They had no idea about Gilligan's Island.
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Post by rachelleb on Aug 10, 2015 5:26:20 GMT
About two years ago, my then 12 year old saw a pay phone for the very first time and wanted to know what it was. And just tonight at dinner, I discovered that neither my 16 or 18 year old daughters knew about the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Post by slicksister on Aug 10, 2015 6:13:25 GMT
I'm 56 and I have no idea what this means. I s there a real Strawberry fields? I thought it was just a lyric. What is it?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2015 8:48:56 GMT
I'm 56 and I have no idea what this means. I s there a real Strawberry fields? I thought it was just a lyric. What is it? It's a section of Central Park in NY that's dedicated and has the Imagine memorial for John Lennon. It's named after the song that John wrote.
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Post by BarbaraUK on Aug 10, 2015 9:34:43 GMT
I'm 56 and I have no idea what this means. I s there a real Strawberry fields? I thought it was just a lyric. What is it? It's a section of Central Park in NY that's dedicated and has the Imagine memorial for John Lennon. It's named after the song that John wrote. Just to add that Strawberry Field was also the name of a children's home in Liverpool, now closed, near to where John Lennon grew up - he used to be taken to the Garden Party held there every Summer and used the name for his song 'Strawberry Fields Forever'.
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Post by bearmom on Aug 10, 2015 11:17:20 GMT
My husband and I had a business with mostly teenage girls working for it (quick food service). They were supposed to put the cash in an envelope at the end of their shift and drop it in the safe. More than one of them didn't know you could lick envelopes to seal them. I kept getting envelopes of cash that were either stapled all along the closure, taped, or at times they used our expensive food labelling stickers to seal the envelope. When I asked them not to use up all our stickers on the envelopes, they didn't understand - we had to show them how to lick the envelope. My kids know to lick envelopes because dh (who pays the bills) refuses to do so. He doesn't like the taste (who does), I was glad when dds were old enough to lick because it meant I didn't have to anymore. (I never refused, licking the envelope was a small price for not having to pay the bills)
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Aug 10, 2015 11:35:59 GMT
It's a section of Central Park in NY that's dedicated and has the Imagine memorial for John Lennon. It's named after the song that John wrote. Just to add that Strawberry Field was also the name of a children's home in Liverpool, now closed, near to where John Lennon grew up - he used to be taken to the Garden Party held there every Summer and used the name for his song 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. ...and the memorial is at the edge of the park, within view of "The Dakota," the building that John Lennon lived in with Yoko. He was shot outside the front door. (I think that building is the setting for "Rosemary's Baby," too. tanya2, I had the opposite experience a few years ago. I was surprised at the teens and twentysomethings at the memorial (even leaving notes and remembrances) - who weren't even alive when when Lennon died.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 10, 2015 12:00:40 GMT
That is a pretty common phenomenon that is completely unrelated to intelligence (doesn't matter if she's a teacher or a MENSA member). Some of us are just hard-wired differently and no amount of holding our thumbs and forefingers up, or looking at our wedding rings (which I'm forever putting on the wrong hand anyway) is going to change it.
Just to be clear, some teachers ARE MENSA members. Your post makes it sound as though teachers are at the bottom of the intelligence scale. I read Dalai Lama's post as in defense of teachers, actually, as the initial post referenced someone who can't tell left from right and is a teacher. (Not a teacher put down.) I tried so hard to teach my daughter left from right with no success, but her first grade teacher got it to stick somehow.
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Post by slicksister on Aug 10, 2015 22:54:54 GMT
Just to add that Strawberry Field was also the name of a children's home in Liverpool, now closed, near to where John Lennon grew up - he used to be taken to the Garden Party held there every Summer and used the name for his song 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. ...and the memorial is at the edge of the park, within view of "The Dakota," the building that John Lennon lived in with Yoko. He was shot outside the front door. (I think that building is the setting for "Rosemary's Baby," too. tanya2, I had the opposite experience a few years ago. I was surprised at the teens and twentysomethings at the memorial (even leaving notes and remembrances) - who weren't even alive when when Lennon died. Thanks for this ladies. I had no idea. Gotta love the peas!!!
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Post by utmr on Aug 10, 2015 23:13:33 GMT
This usually happens with pop culture references. A few days ago my husband and I were telling a story to my son, his girlfriend, our daughter and her best friend about a lake trip we took years ago. A sudden storm came up and we had to find a cove for the boats to wait it out. So there we are just standing in the water holding on to boats and someone started singing the Gilligan Island theme song and all 20+ of us joined in. At the end of story, there were 4 blank faces staring back at us. They had no idea about Gilligan's Island. A while back, "The Jeffersons" came on tv and DH and I started singing along ("movin' on up, to the east side, to a deeee-luxe apartment, in the skyyyyyy-ayyyyy-ayyyyy"). Our children were horrified, both at our singing, and at what they perceived as the racist tone of the show. Then we tried to explain "All in the Family" and they were just astonished.
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Post by MaryMary on Aug 10, 2015 23:16:45 GMT
My 15 year old just asked me if our 1960 Ford pickup has a CD player. Hahahaha.
Uh, it doesn't even have seat belts.
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 10, 2015 23:54:12 GMT
Back with another "sign of the times" I was setting up a password for ds for something, we were trying to come up with something easy to remember we decided on 'Johnny#7'. So, he's entering it and he says "how do you spell pound?" Now, nevermind the fact that at 14 he should be able to spell I'm like, "what do you mean? It's just the sign, the pound sign, the number sign". "you mean a hashtag?" What the fudgesicles batman, it's a pound sign! he was totally confused.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 11, 2015 1:41:36 GMT
Back with another "sign of the times" I was setting up a password for ds for something, we were trying to come up with something easy to remember we decided on 'Johnny#7'. So, he's entering it and he says "how do you spell pound?" Now, nevermind the fact that at 14 he should be able to spell I'm like, "what do you mean? It's just the sign, the pound sign, the number sign". "you mean a hashtag?" What the fudgesicles batman, it's a pound sign! he was totally confused. A sign of the times AND a sign of the regions! If you said "pound sign" I would look at you blankly too. Here it has always (in my lifetime) been called a hash symbol, and only recently hashtag.
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Post by *leslie* on Aug 13, 2015 20:51:00 GMT
Back with another "sign of the times" I was setting up a password for ds for something, we were trying to come up with something easy to remember we decided on 'Johnny#7'. So, he's entering it and he says "how do you spell pound?" Now, nevermind the fact that at 14 he should be able to spell I'm like, "what do you mean? It's just the sign, the pound sign, the number sign". "you mean a hashtag?" What the fudgesicles batman, it's a pound sign! he was totally confused. Lol, my BIL was telling us that he and our niece were at the market and she reads a sign in the produce section "5 hashtag potatoes". He had to explain to her the # meant pound.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 13, 2015 22:46:39 GMT
Interesting thread. DD was test driving cars a few weeks ago and one had roll-up windows and the side mirrors had to be manually adjusted (what, I just push it?).
When my kids were learning to tell time, a very wise preschool teacher suggested we get them only analog watches until they mastered the clock face. Kids raised on digital have a different sense of time. For them it is very exact and not a "big picture" concept. If asked what time it is, I might say "almost 5:30" and my kids will ALWAYS correct me with "it's 5:26" for example.
I think GPS vs using a map creates a similar limited view of where you are or how to get from point A to point B.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Aug 13, 2015 23:53:25 GMT
Back with another "sign of the times" I was setting up a password for ds for something, we were trying to come up with something easy to remember we decided on 'Johnny#7'. So, he's entering it and he says "how do you spell pound?" Now, nevermind the fact that at 14 he should be able to spell I'm like, "what do you mean? It's just the sign, the pound sign, the number sign". "you mean a hashtag?" What the fudgesicles batman, it's a pound sign! he was totally confused. A sign of the times AND a sign of the regions! If you said "pound sign" I would look at you blankly too. Here it has always (in my lifetime) been called a hash symbol, and only recently hashtag. I never knew that the hash symbol was used to mean pound in the US, despite annual trips there. To me, the sign for pound is £! I'm always learning new things here!
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 14, 2015 0:27:21 GMT
A sign of the times AND a sign of the regions! If you said "pound sign" I would look at you blankly too. Here it has always (in my lifetime) been called a hash symbol, and only recently hashtag. I never knew that the hash symbol was used to mean pound in the US, despite annual trips there. To me, the sign for pound is £! I'm always learning new things here! I think it must be pound as in the weight not the currency. Like they do ' and " for feet and inches ( 6'4"). I'm not sure though because we use metric.
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Post by sharlag on Aug 14, 2015 0:42:26 GMT
I am astounded a college age kid wouldn't know how to address an envelope. Are you astounded because my son has never had occasion to address an envelope before, or because it shouldn't need any instruction? My husband subscribes to the latter. Example: We were in Rome Vatican City and Husband bought postcards with the Vatican City postmark to send his sister. He was astounded when both college-aged kids claimed ignorance when he asked them to fill out cards. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN you don't know how???" Even after I explained that they had never sent nor received a postcard, and he had simply handed them a card with a line down the center and a few words in Italian, he kept saying "They just have to fill it out!" So I gave them a few seconds of "address on the right; message on the left" (which is counterintuitive when you think about it), and they did it. Just yesterday, one of them graciously showed me how to make my first Skype call - even though it is second nature to her. I agree with what you're pointing out. It's not intuitive if you haven't used it. I don't know a lot of my kids' current music groups, why should they know mine from years ago?
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