Are children still being taught to tie shoes and tell time?

In My Humble Opinion
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IME, wall clocks are still overwhelmingly analog clocks. But most other clocks I see are digital.

The Firebug, who’s 28 months old, seems to be pretty close to learning to tell time on an analog clock. He already knows that we know when things will happen by looking at the clock, and it has to do with the hands and numbers. He’s definitely interested in figuring this one out, and he’s gradually gaining command of his numbers, so I’m guessing that he’ll figure out how to tell time by sometime next spring.

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Velcro shoes only last until you sign up for soccer / little league / basketball / Scouting. Once the kid is hitting the outdoors and fields, they need real lacing systems.

As for the clocks - huh, we have our Dora the Explorer learn to tell time book, so all kids in the household can handle it. Bedroom clocks are digital, but the grandfather clock is 100% analogue.

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I didn’t learn to do either until I was about 10 - not for lack of people trying to teach me. This was in the 90s.

44

Yes.

45

I thought so, too. But my kids’ soccer shoes all had velcro on them until Eldest got to size 35 (about a 3 US if I recall correctly) this year.

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Slight hijack: Does the majority in the US wear digital wrist watches? Where I live, they were a fad from the mid 70s to mid 80s, but nowadays almost everyone wears an analog watch. I can’t remember when I last saw a digital watch. I think the reason is that digital for watches became a synomym for cheap, and that analog watches look more classy.

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Most of the people who would wear a digital watch (except those really arty ones) now just look at their phones.

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From kindergarten on up my kid’s baseball and soccer cleats were lace up. Never even saw velcro ones in the store.

Watches- most everybody I see uses analog ones.

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I always assumed they were required to learn stuff like this. They’re teaching my son to tie bows like you normally would on shoes and he’s in preschool. I don’t think they’ve gotten to time yet, but I would be surprised and extremely disappointed if they didn’t teach him to do so on an analog clock. Unless you always wear a digital watch, you’ll have analog. Most doctor’s offices I’ve been to have analog clocks, as do most schools and many public places like malls and such.