Are you ever SHOCKED by how butt-ignorant *SOME* young people are?

[laundry_queen]

196. So I just asked my 12 year old if she knew those things

because my 15 year old isnt' home.

She had no idea what a sermon was or who LBJ was.

Now granted we live in Canada and don't learn all the presidents (or even all the Prime Ministers) so she likely wouldn't have learned it at school.

And being in Canada, most people keep their religions to themselves, and we, ourselves, don't go to church, so she wouldn't have heard the word from us. And I'm pretty sure they don't teach about sermons at school. I remember that the ONLY reason I know that word is the Little House on the Prairie books I read as a kid, and I remember asking my parents what it meant (because we didn't go to church either, and although I did take religion in school, it was Roman Catholic and they don't use the word 'sermon').

I'd cut those kids some slack. I think back to when I was 18 and boy was I ignorant. At that age I was far more concerned with boys and partying. And if I'd have owned a phone to text with at the time, I'm sure they would have had to pry it away from my cold dead hands. I *would* have known who LBJ was though, if only because my parents were convinced he was part of the conspiracy that killed Kennedy.