Teacher lists the 5 things high schoolers do today that would send us olds 'into a coma'

“There is such a lack of care that goes into everything."

By Heather Wake

High school has transformed in ways both good…and bad. According to one teacher, we might even be shocked by how the shifting landscape has taken a toll on young people's motivation and mental health.

In a viral TikTok video, educator Mrs. H shared the five ways her students behave that would send our former teenage selves “into a coma.” Let’s just say it paints a rather bleak picture.

First off, she explained that in her ten years of teaching, she could count on one hand the number of assignments that felt like students gave their full effort.

🦃 How to shut down holiday dinner arguments with just one simple sentence

It's a lot easier than some might think.

By Cecily Knobler

As many of us begin to gather for Thanksgiving dinners and other festive holiday events, some might feel a tad anxious. Tensions might be running high, some rooted in political differences and some just good old-fashioned bickering about how the Christmas ham should be carved. (I'm a tofurky person, myself.)

Whether it's families or even just friends, arguments big and small have a tendency to make their way to the lunch and dinner table. And according to many therapists and other experts, there are actually reasons for this difficulty in communication, especially around people we've known a long time.

"That's not just food, that's love preserved." 😭

📸 Man found girlfriend’s preschool photo, then had to call his mom after noticing something 'odd'

A man stumbled upon a preschool picture of his girlfriend—and found a familiar face.

By Upworthy Staff

A man couldn't believe his eyes when he came across a childhood photo of his girlfriend. The man, who goes by @evanaka1234 on Imgur, shared a series of pictures on his account in 2015, weaving a story through the captions involving his love life and how fate intervened in the best way possible.

He first shared a picture of eight preschool kids accompanied by two adults. "While searching for a rice cooker my GF and I came across this picture from her preschool," the man wrote in the caption.

"I started busting out laughing because I recognized her instantly. Some say she wasn't quite human," he joked, referencing the quirky little smile his girlfriend had in the picture. But that was when a serious realization hit him: a little boy sitting next to his girlfriend began to look eerily familiar. In moments, the man had connected the dots:

"HOLY CRAP THAT WAS ME!" he wrote.

🪠 Savvy elderly couple shows the easiest way to unclog a toilet. No plunger necessary.

No plunger. No problem.

By Heather Wake

If you feel like you somehow missed “Basic Life Skills 101,” you are very much not alone.

Plenty of us graduated high school able to analyze Shakespeare, identify igneous rocks, and, for the love of all that’s holy, recite “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!” in two seconds flat…yet somehow never learned how to do something as simple as unclog a toilet. If there’s a plunger nearby, then maybe, just maybe, there’s a chance. Without one…and the day is ruined.

Enter: grandparents. Or in this case, a grandmother on TikTok who has become the internet’s unofficial modern household oracle. Meet Babs, known to her 4.1 million followers as @brunchwithbabs. She is charming, practical, and full of the kind of real-world hacks your grandparents used before Google existed.

Her latest lesson: how to unclog a toilet using items already sitting in your home. No plunger or plumber necessary.