please reassure me...

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That I'm not the only one with middles schoolers who can't figure out what to do when I go to take their temperature orally.

Happy Monday ?

I don't fault the kids for not knowing how to use a landline phone. Many have never encountered one. It's not a hard skill but anything can be confusing if you've never done it or do it only 2-3 times a year. Heck, if I were asked to play a record on a record player, I may have to take a moment to figure it out. I barely encountered them as a child and haven't put a record on one in 3 decades at least.

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On 3/4/2019 at 8:25 AM, cid1 said:

Or how to dial a regular corded phone...what do I do to make the call go through, where is the back button, deer in head lights when I tell them to use the phone on the wall.

I was with my daughters and a few other girls from our girl scout troop (the youngest girl was 5 the oldest was 10) at Walmart selling Girl Scout cookies this past weekend. We were set up next to a working pay phone. The girls all took turns listening to the dial tone. One tells me "listen, it makes a noise when you hold it up." then another girl wants to call her mom from it. I told her no, I'm not spending 50 cents so you can call your mom, which blew her mind that I had to put actual money into the phone. I finally had to tell them, we're here to sell cookies not play with a payphone. I can't imagine what they told their parents.

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3 hours ago, EnoughWithTheIce said:

I just thought of this post!!! LOL!

A girl came in grabbed a pad, went in my bathroom, came out and went on her merry way with no complaint. A few minutes later, mom calls wanting me to call her back down because she is having problems with her pad. I call her down, "it won't stick." She swears she took the paper strip off the sticky part, but I have my doubts.

She just HAS to call mom back, so I tell her to use my phone "dial 9 first." She tells me it won't go through so I tell her dial 9, then 1 - a lot of our parent's numbers are long distance. Still can't do it, so I call and hand the receiver over. Kid just looks at it. "Say hello to your mom." They are chatting when our SRO comes down to ask me if I called 911. I am like no, but I bet she did by accident.

After 472 minutes on phone with mom, she asks to go back to class to get her backpack (she has tampons in there) and her phone so she can go in my bathroom and mom wants to walk her through it. Whatever, I am passing meds. She comes out another 357 minutes later and stated grandma is going to bring me my special small pads, these are sooooo big. They are the thin ones. I bet grandma will bring pantyliners which means, in 2 hours - she will be back with an overflow.

I look in the trash, sure enough that original pad I gave her still has the paper backing on. Now, this is her 3rd period, not her first.

I JUST CAN'T!

Dying over here picturing a middle schooler trying to put in a tampon with mom coaching over the phone ? #periodproblems

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On 3/4/2019 at 2:06 PM, BunnyBunnyBSNRN said:

My favourite is the ones (elem) that don't know how to talk on a phone. I'll hand them the phone and have to put it to their ear and then say, "Say 'hello', Mom doesn't know you're there if you don't talk".

And these little people will be our leaders one day.... ?

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