My 9 year old recently asked me what "stop-drop-and-roll" was and I explained it was if you were on fire and she gave me a really skeptical look and asked, "did that happen a lot when you were a kid?"
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The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.
All young people find all old people quaint, this is nothing like a boomer humor, every generation does this. Boomer humor is more about hating your wife and blaming everything on every other generation.
"Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption.
So, you've seen Boomers put down Gen-X, and Gen-X get in millennials, and now you're seeing millennials talking about the kids...
But you, you'll be immune!
Eh, it's more like we're leaning into being old-heads now for the lols. Millennials don't do very many things without any ironic undertones.
I've been in & out of institutions thanks to my addiction to phonics. School got me hooked on the stuff.
Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.
I'm pretty surprised they're learning cursive though. Wtf
I believe cursive is thaught because the hand makes repetitive movements that way, not because of how it looks. But since we barely need to write anything lengthy anymore i guess efficient writing isn't worth that much more than inefficient writing.
Why is Stop Drop and Roll no longer being taught?
When they shoot, look cute & scoot
Far less open flames around your average household. Less fireplaces being used, electricity is far more available so it replaced candles, you don't see wood stoves pretty much ever anymore, and even gas stoves are being replaced with electric ones nowadays.
Fire used to be far more prevalent. Prometheus would be sad, at least until he discovers the fire emoji and tinder.
Plus flame-retardants in children's clothes and furniture are way more common than they used to be. So kids are seeing fewer fires, and when they do, they're less likely to get lit up.
They left out the duck and cover nuclear drills, analog black and white tv and rotary phones. Oh, and most house didn't have air conditioning.
Edit: Oops. Never mind i was thinking of my childhood in the 60's.
As someone who had to learn cursive in school, I dropped that shit literally as soon as they said we didn't need to use it anymore. Good riddance.

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