What 7th Graders Think Of 40-Year-Olds

A teacher asked his students what they think 40-year-olds do every day and the answers are interesting.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cobby and Christine in the Morning producer, Christiane, we're all together.
So let me think here. A seventh grader. You know,
it's back to school time. Some people are a week
into it. A typical seventh grader is about twelve thirteen
years old.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Okay, yeah, what did they think of lit?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Do they think of us?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
What do they think of us?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is so cute. This is a seventh grade teacher,
Shane Shane Frakes, who likes to pull his students and
share their opinions. So in their latest poll, he asked
his students, what do you think of a forty year old?
What do forty year olds do for fun? Here's what
they think we do for fun. Cobby, we count coupons,

(00:42):
We go on Facebook. Okay, go and buy home decorps. Okay,
not so far off there.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
So far they're not wrong.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
We say no to anything they ask for. Your seventh
grader thinks you just say no. Take take medicine basis,
play golf, knit, go on Facebook, watch TV in black
and white.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's yeah, well, and knitting in that so far the
two wrong ones.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
And playwordle Okay, that's what they think forty year olds
do for fun.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Like eighty percent for me. Like again, I don't knit
and I don't watch black on my TV. But for
the most part, yeah, I take meds and Facebook.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
You don't think they're perceiving forty as like eighty, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Or remember when we were like that age we thought
forty was ancient and then oh yeah you got here
in boom.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, no, not at all. It's it's still young.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Producer, Christen, what are you thinking as you hear this, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I think at least half of these kids their parents
are probably around forty, maybe a couple years older. So
their perspective is what do they see their parents do?
And I know when I was twelve years old, I
thought my parents were old, even though they weren't at
the time. But you know, I think it's what they're
seeing their parents do.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's just so funny to me that the perception of
you know, at forty, it sounds like, you know, just
sit in your chair and play a whordle and to
two rennight. That's all you can do.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now, seventh graders, You'll know in some time it's really
not that bad.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
No more. Cubby and Christine in the morning, just ahead
on one O six point seven Light at them,