Teachers are opening up about how more and more children are lacking in life skills – a decline they’ve noticed happening over the years.

In a Reddit post titled “many kids cannot do basic things anymore”, which has 23,000 upvotes (the site’s equivalent of ‘likes’), a teacher said they’ve been in the job since 2011, and in that time they’ve seen “a decline in independence and overall capability in many of today’s kids”.

Offering an example, they said many of the seven- to eight-year-olds they teach can’t tie their shoes – or even begin to try. “I asked if they are working on it at home with parents and most say no,” said the teacher.

According to Clarks shoes, most children are developmentally ready to begin learning how to tie shoes between the ages of five and seven.

“Some kids who are considered ‘smart’ cannot unravel headphones or fix inside out arms on a sweater,” the teacher continued.

“Many kids have never had to peel fruit. Everything is cut up and done for them ... We had apples donated and many didn’t know what to do with a whole apple. They have never had an apple that wasn’t cut up into slices.”

Another teacher of a middle school (typically for kids aged 11 to 14) said in the past 11 years they’ve noticed a decline in capability among students who “can’t read a clock, can’t find information on a 4 sentence Google slide,........

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