10 year old can't tell time

[EllebellyBeeblebrox]

Dd has just turned 10, and just got into a major strop with tears and screaming because I asked her what time it is. I know this is a particular issue for her, she has dyslexia and does struggle with a lot of maths concepts too. I have tried gently encouraging her little and often with looking at clocks, discussing the difference between analogue and digital, asking what time will it be in x minutes etc, we have a plastic one that we practice with. The problem now I think is that she has such a barrier in her head about it she just gives up, and as hard as I try I'm starting to get frustrated she's got one more year at primary school then I'll be sending her off to secondary school not understanding how to tell the time at this rate. Does anyone have any strategies to help, I feel like I'm failing her because as much as I try I can't make her understand it.

Don't worry too much about this. I work in secondary and we have lots of students that can't tell the time - everything's digital now.
Good way to learn is to get you DD an analogue watch she likes.Get her to wear it everyday for a few months and keep finding excuses to get her to check the time.

Get her a digital watch? If she honestly struggles with a watch face due to dyslexia, I would try to find other ways for her to be able to function in the world or she'll end up still not being able to read analogue but with problems with her self image as well.

Thankyou both. She has an analogue one but I think I will get a digital instead of that makes more sense to her that way.

You can get watches with both analogue and digital faces, which could be a low-pressure way for her to learn

You be surprised how many people can’t. My dd is 20 and she can’t tell the time. She’s just never grasped it. It’s not really a skill you need is it, reAlly nowadays. Everything’s digital, isn’t it.
Obviously she was, but She doesn’t remember being taught it in school.

Hi, I don't have any tips! But just came in to say my DD aged 10 also cannot tell the time. We taught her once and have obviously let it slip as she cannot tell time. Has no idea about how long things take etc etc.

I really need to get round to making her learn....

There’s are apps they can play with that help

My 12 year old cant tell the time on an clock face I think shes just too lazy to learn

My dyslexic earthly twenty year olds still struggle with telling the time unless it's a digital clock.

Wish I'd known when they were younger. Would've saved so much stress.

Ask your DD what works for her with telling the time. I'd also suggest finding out if she can work time forwards and / or backwards. One of my DDs can do it one way and the other one the other way.

We used Timemonsters.com. It's an American site and uses monsters to help keep kids amused. DS got to grips with it very quickly with that where he'd struggled with us trying to explain 5 minutes to 6 etc.,

My Ds (15) has dyslexia and he still struggles with analogue clocks (can do o'clock, half past and quarter past). He's fine with digital usually but sometimes reverses numbers if asked eg 12:35 might become 21:35 or 12:53. I don't think there's much that can be done really.

Thankyou all for your reassurances. Guess I thought she'd be the only one still struggling with it. (To be fair money is a bit of a tricky one too ) she reckons they haven't done it in school but she's slightly away with the fairies a lot of the time anyway...