What is one thing your parents will never learn?

[TwoManyKids]

Light hearted!
My mum refuses to learn the difference between the WiFi and mobile data. She runs her data down at home (messing around with settings and accidently turning off wifi) and obsessively hounds waiters/baristas for WiFi codes when we are out! I keep telling her she is paying for data and she can use it!
What is something your parents can't get their heads around?
Also She'll also hopefully never learn it was me and now my sibling who dinged the car twenty years ago!

That I could possibly know more than her on any subject, even the one I have 2 degrees and 20 years experience working in.

That the Daily Mail is not an infallible source of Universal Truth.

That the Internet can sometimes make life easier.

That if you have an answerphone there is literally no point in rushing to the phone and telling the caller that you can't speak to them right now and can they call back later?

That you really don't need to read out the name of your town and your phone number every time you answer the landline phone, slowly so the caller knows they have got the right number. Everybody else stopped doing that decades ago.

That she is not still in charge 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love her but she has had a real problem with this and even at 92 still occasionally has a go ...and I am 71!!!! DH and I have learnt to manage it but it sure took time 🤣🤣🤣

Oh my gosh, this one!! Any GIF sent to MIL is met with "haha who is this, is this your friend?" regardless of who's in it.

I wish my MIL would learn that, no, we don't always have our phones on us so if you ring and we don't answer - ten more calls won't help! I wish she'd learn her own passwords for things instead of calling us and asking what they might be. She also doesn't online bank or online order anything - she does think it's all a scam!!

Shes the same age as my mum, who understands technology and how things work as well as I do, so I just don't understand the unwillingness to learn 😂 my DH has been on strike recently because he's sick of it! Hopefully she'll have learnt her email password by Christmas 😂

My dp's parents will never learn they are a grown adult approaching 50 - still treat them like a teenager

Anyone wonder what our kids will be saying about us in future?

Indeed. I think we need another thread of "one thing that your parents do that actually might be better than the way you do it".

Feeling you have to walk round everywhere with your mobile phone so that you can look at an incoming message straight away would definitely fall on this list!

Omg def this!!! Parents and dp!

The concept that someone checking their phone may be doing something urgent or important. My DM cannot get past the idea that everything on your phone is frivolous and for pleasure.

Goodness I could write a book !

But my DM never understood that if she rang my home or mobile and it went into answering machine I won't hear her shouting down the line to pick up .. god forbid I might of been at work or out .. the constant Hello Hello are you there .. ? HELLO can you hear me .. why are you ignoring me ...??
every bloody time !!

That I do actually work when I’m working from home. My mum believes the nonsense she reads in the papers about WFH. I have tried explaining that :

A, The technology has moved on, that high-speed broadband is not the same as ancient dial-up and that Zoom & Teams are not the same as crappy telephone conference calls.
B, The journo who wrote the articles she’s reading is probably WFH themselves, that the papers hate WFH because it means they sell fewer copies to commuters, and they are pandering to their predominantly retired readership who don’t understand A, but she won’t have it.

That motorists don't beep there horns far more these days and actually her driving is getting worse

Using Uber. Always insist on calling the local taxi company.

That her way of parenting is not the definitive one, and that plenty of people successfully parent their children differently.
Also that a smart phone would make things easier for her to read than the £10 prison phone she currently texts on. As a retired typist you'd think she'd appreciate a keyboard instead on pressing the number buttons for each letter.

I'm really lucky - my Mum's 81 and she is very into tech. She banks and shops online with all the apps, uses e-tickets and sorts everything herself. If anything, she's too into new tech - she has to have the latest iPhone!

Mind you, she's completely modern. She chairs school exclusion reviews and admission appeals for the LA (online and in person), is off with her friends for coffee all the time and thinks nothing of taking to flights to join us on holiday.

She says that at 81, you just got for it and if there's a problem, ''there's always a nice young man who will help you out!'🤣

I’m in my thirties and hardly ever take my phone from room to room. I think if I did I’d be tempted to do even more mindless scrolling then I do now. And I hate having it near me if I’m watching tv - I can’t cope with more than one screen at once, and can’t concentrate properly on either.

DF in particular that I'm not 10 years old anymore I'm in my 30s.

Dm- that rules are there for a reason. She always thinks she's the exception to them

I am very technical but I just wouldn't have online banking on my phone. The advantages to me don't outweigh the potential security risks.

She sounds like my mil. Dh put a stop to it eventually 🙄

That I know how she likes her tea. I've been making tea for her for well over 50 years. Every single time she gives me micro instructions, like I am a waitress in a cafe who has never met her before.
I also know how to operate a hoover, an iron, a cooker and a washing machine. I don't need precise instructions every time. I am no longer 10 years old.

We have a holiday folder with all our bookings printed out when we go on holiday.

Oh god yes the Facebook thing.

No I have no idea what Jean from book group posted because I don't know her and am not friends with her! See also - Instagram.

Also that I'm not intentionally blanking her on Facebook. I just barely use it any more.

Never to use the phrase “It never did you any harm”.