How much change ?

Grandpappy Happy and I were checking out at a register in a store, the casier was a young man who looked to be into his twenties.

The customer ahead of us gave the cashier a twenty dollar bill and the register read that his change was $ 2.89.
The cashier took 2-one dollar bills out of the cash drawer, then he looked at the eighty nine cents and looked at the cash drawer completely bewildered. After looking several times at the .89 cents on the register and looking again at the change in the drawer he finally took 3 quarters out , again looking at the register and the change drawer finally took a dime out and repeating the same thing took 4 pennies out and gave the man his change, looking very relieved that he had done it right.

The cashier was obviously not sure how to select the change to equal  the amount on the register.

I am telling you this true story as an example of one of the ways ( in my opion) we are failing our youth.
don't get me wrong, I love all of the electronic, didgital and modern conveniences we have, I just think we are failling to teach the BASICS first.

Just imagine, God forbid, our electonic system was shut down even temporially what would happen.

This is just a small example of what we need to teach our little ones and teach them when they are very young.
The lesson is so easy because we can play "store" with the little ones using real money and teach them how to count money and make .change.

They say some day we may not even use "money" as an exchange, but until then I think we are doing our youth a disservice by not teaching them the very basics of everyday life.

Unfortunately this is not an isolated incident, i have seen it several times before.

It might be too late for some of the older kids (I hope not), but Please lets teach our little ones so as not to perpetuate this ignorance.