This evening, 18-year-old Aleks hand-wrote an address andI was shocked when he asked me how to address an envelope (and --justifiably -- expressed concern about his atrocious handwriting!) and where to place the stamp... until he told me that he's never in his life snail-mailed a letter! And the only reason he went off-line this evening was to provide a teacher with a snail-mail envelope in which to mail a recommendation.
wow, that's food for thought :)
ReplyDelete...or are we just getting old than?
Kind of scary that, isn't it. I saw a news story about a whole generation that will not know how to write a letter by hand..ciao
ReplyDeleteHoly cow! It would have never occured to me that kids nowadays don't know how to do those things.
ReplyDeleteThat's remarkable! I'm glad he's learned that skill now. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow! a young adult who's never written a thank you note to grandma, etc? Never watched you send cards through the mail? Never gotten a birthday card in the mail and observed how it was done? Are you sure he wasn't just pulling your leg!? :)
ReplyDeleteWhen the kids were young, they'd write thank-you notes to grandparents and I'd send them. Later, that was done via e-mail or phone calls. (Yes, I made the decision not to hound them to hand-write a note -- that a higher-tech, more comfortable acknowledgment was better than none...) I'm sure that he'd have been able to guess where the stamps and addresses went if I'd have quizzed him, but just his discomfort with the whole hand-written, hand-addressed envelope astounded me!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet -- think about it... when DO these kids write and mail actual letters?!
Thanks for your feedback!
Carol
suddenly I feel really really old.
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