Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for April 22, 2024

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    C  7 months ago

    Parenting fail

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    momofalex7  7 months ago

    I helped out in a 5th grade class where the kids would ask me what time it was. Even though the clock on the wall was in plain view, they didn’t know how to read an analog clock.

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    rekam Premium Member 7 months ago

    momofalex7, good teaching opportunity.

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    iggyman  7 months ago

    When asked what time it is, if I say “quarter after four”,they have no idea!

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    cracker65  7 months ago

    My kids have both been taught to read an analog clock. They do it in school too.

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    BenGMan  7 months ago

    Wanda, have you learnt them to read?

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    cdward  7 months ago

    She’s young. It’ll be easy to teach her. And now seems like a good time.

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    sallyseckman  7 months ago

    I know digital clocks are a thing but it’s important to know the basics of an analog clock.

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    markkahler52  7 months ago

    Astounding, actually….

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    tremaine53  7 months ago

    Look at the hands on the clock: what time does that represent? The small hand just got to 4, but the big hand is at 13 minutes before the hour.

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    RitaGB  7 months ago

    But the best thing is, they’re both reading BOOKS with no phone or other device which would easily give them the digital time.

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    Wren Fahel  7 months ago

    While my daughters can read an analog clock, they have a little trouble with my wording. If I say “2:45” they get it; if I say “quarter to three” they’re lost.

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    GirlGeek Premium Member 7 months ago

    Analog clocks are hard to read

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    goboboyd  7 months ago

    24 hour displays, analog or digital, always cause a pause for me. I’m leaning towards one of those single hand clocks that only show the hour. Close enough for me. A far cry from the endless split second back-timing in my broadcasting days.

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    sgbsb.27  7 months ago

    It looks like 13 minutes before 4 o’clock, to me.

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    E.Z. Smith Premium Member 7 months ago

    4:47

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    cats_in_bowties  7 months ago

    Does their kitchen not have a microwave or oven with a digital time readout????

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    artegal  7 months ago

    Are you telling me there isn’t a cell phone within arm’s reach?

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    ctolson  7 months ago

    Zoe, Right arm fully extended pointing to the mid point of 9 and 10 position and her left arm pulled in pointing toward the four position.

    I refrained from saying Tic, tic , tic which was my first thought.

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    gluetrap  7 months ago

    Do any of you old folks remember Grandfather Clock on Captain Kangaroo? He was always pretty helpful.

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    Daltongang Premium Member 7 months ago

    Our kids had no trouble telling time with an analogue clock. They had trouble with the teacher(s) and other student(s) understanding the time, but then our kids were raised on military time.

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    Gina “Goldie” Hemphill-Toms  7 months ago

    It’s 4:4something

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    DJohnny  7 months ago

    What it is? Correct answer: out of hand(!), because the hour has passed four, which is wrong, if the time is 3:48.

    I find it strange it the hand had that position if it was 4:48?

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    kaycstamper  7 months ago

    I made my kids learn that before they could get digital.

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    pheets  7 months ago

    Can Zoe do ANYthing besides tattling and manipulation?

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    Dr_Fogg  7 months ago

    one of my kids skipped 2nd grade, which apparently is where you learn that. Consequently she could not read an analog clock. I think it was like 4th grade before we discovered the problem, like Zoe.

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    Smeagol  7 months ago

    My son when he was 16 could not read my analog watches but he was very interested in wearing a mid 1980s Movado so when he turned 18 I gave it to him for his birthday. He is in his mid 30s now and hardly ever wears a watch but he keeps an analog dress watch when the need arises. The one I gave him after so many years could not be fixed – the electronics for the watch were just too old and cost prohibitive.

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    IndyW  7 months ago

    Yes, it is pathetic, that this generation cannot figure out an analog clock.

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    Ermine Notyours  7 months ago

    I still remember not being able to read a dial clock. I would have to report to my mother, “The little hand is on the four, and the big hand is on the… well, it’s between the nine and the ten.” I don’t remember when I actually learned it. The incentive was for not missing my favorite TV shows.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  7 months ago

    The little hand points to the hours until it gets to the next hour, the big hand points to the minutes but you have to multiply by 5. Now you know how to use an analog clock display children.

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    John Jorgensen  7 months ago

    About a decade ago I was substitute teaching and had to spend a ninety minute block signing middle school kids in and out of the bathroom. I got tired of being asked what time it was so I took off my watch and put it next to the clipboard that held the sign-in sheet. When they asked I just tapped the watch. Of course most of them couldn’t read it but few were willing to admit it. One kid, however, did say “I don’t know what that says, tell me what time it is!” Something about his commanding tone rubbed me the wrong way, so I looked him right in the eye and said “Quarter of.”

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    Medtech4  7 months ago

    I was tutoring part time for two and a half years at a tutoring business my friend owned. We had analog clocks. None of the kids could read them!!! We had two “teaching clocks” in the classroom, so I vowed to teach (when it was appropriate) It took the better part of the hour they were there (like 40 full teaching minutes to get the hang of it) I would just explain over and over the minutes- and the concepts of “five after”, “half past”, “quarter after” “quarter to”. First, of course was “60 minutes in the hour and the numbers on the clock are in five minute intervals….” All new to them!!!!

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    Silence Dogood Premium Member 7 months ago

    The dumbing down…parental malfeasance.

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    kathleenhicks62  7 months ago

    It is time to teach her how to read a “regular” clock!!!

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    prrdh  7 months ago

    There’s an old joke about a joint military exercise with civilian observers. The commanding officer said, "Please synchronize your watches. Civilians, the correct time is 8pm. Soldiers and airmen, it is 2000 hours. Sailors, it is 8 bells. Marines, the big hand is on the twelve, the little one on the eight.”

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    Allan CB Premium Member 7 months ago

    The hands are drawn wrong … if it was 12 minutes to 4, the hour hand should be above the 4.

    If it’s 12 minutes to 5, the hour hand should be closer to the 5.

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    PAR85  7 months ago

    Putting Roman numerals on the clock would just add to the confusion.

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    alexius23  7 months ago

    Speaking as a retired high school teacher on the first day of the school Year I would explain how to understand an analog wall clock. Not sure if the students retained that information. Such clock are less and less common.

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    The Quiet One  7 months ago

    That sounds about right.

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    Wishingonastar  7 months ago

    That is so funny because I just saw a t-shirt online that went like this: No, I don’t know how to use snapchat or tiktok, but I can write in cursive, do math without a calculator and tell time on a clock with hands.

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    christelisbetty  7 months ago

    …..and those who can’t read the analog clocks, laugh at us trying to figure out how to work a “smart” phone.

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    ronmor1  7 months ago

    It’s 5 O’clock somewhere.

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    Taracinablue  7 months ago

    I can read analog, but it takes me a minute, and I’d rather just look at a digital display. A couple years ago, I asked my 60-something coworker what time it was, and she said, “Seriously?” because my brain had long ago opted to ignore the vintage analog clock hanging right behind me.

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    lisaegray  7 months ago

    Don’t they teach that in school anymore?

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    kathleenhicks62  7 months ago

    She probably can’t read cursive either. . . .

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