I finished the book - mum fail

[NutcrackerSweety]

last nights fail - DS was reading homework with me and the book was quite interesting but after he’d done the 3 chapters needed he stopped but left me with the laptop. I read all of the book ‘not too bad’ without realising it was giving him gold points - he’s now top of the class (luckily only for a day) and find it hilarious. never could resist another chapter. Anyone else please say not just me?

😂😂😂

Could be worse. A comedians routine includes the story of when a husband managed to enrol themselves into pre school instead of his child. !
make sure you wear that gold star with pride!!

I once wrote a poem for a dd of maybe 12 - it was homework but she was utterly exhausted and tearful with trying to come up with anything remotely suitable on the given theme.

I got an A* and the teacher wanted to enter it for a competition! IIRC that never actually happened thank goodness - we were too 😱and shit scared to confess!

I've done that too - DS was very surprised to see he'd leapt up the league table!

Similar but a few years ago I was chivvying up my then 16 year old to do his history homework. It was quite an important piece of work prior to his GCSE

I said I'd start it for him but before I knew it, I'd got into my stride and was enjoying writing about the public health act and actually wrote the whole thing

Teacher very impressed, said it was the best in the class and a great piece of writing

I felt pretty proud of myself tbh

I once got top marks for a papier-mâché globe when DS was in year 3.

I bloody love papier-mâché and had a lovely time while he refused to touch it as it was sticky.

I was very proud of my results as some parents had also done it themselves and failed to reach my epic, paste based heights!

I messed up the Christmas card artwork form meaning my name not my daughter's was printed on the back along with 'Year 3'. Unfortunately it was also printed on the mug that had been bought as grandparent gifts 😅

My friend ended up making her daughters egg decorating competition entry for her as her daughter was ill but desperate to enter the competition.

Her egg won and the teacher commented that it was lovely to see one clearly done by the child rather than the parent. 🤣 The win was bitter sweet for my friend knowing her artistic talents passed for that of a 6 year old, but her daughter was very happy. 🤣

Hahahaha...yes I've been there...
DS3 needed to do the bl**dy papermache volcano thing that I'd done twice with his siblings... just like him to tell me the evening before...we needed vinegar (mixed with mento sweets causing eruption? Long time ago) of course we'd run out..we only had the vinegar from the pickled beetroot...
He got an A for his eruption that looked like lava...

My dad managed to register HIMSELF at the local vets. He didn't even have a pet at the time 😂

Not quite the same but dd3 was top of the table for her maths homework and really confused as they hasn’t had maths homework for weeks… turned out the teacher was doing it by surnames and hadn’t realised she has a twin in a different set. Dd2 has had double maths homework for weeks but had just got in and done it all (year 8). Luckily it was the one in top set doing the extra. She wasn’t impressed when she found out but dd3 thought it was hilarious.

My ds played football for the village team. There is an IT system called Teamer where parents say whether their child is playing that week.

IT also did a thing where you vote for Player of the match. Somehow my name was on it instead of my ds's. He won player of the match a couple of times and the parents got an email announcing 'CousinGreg55 is player of the match.'

I’m loving all these stories 😂

I made an Ancient Greek Olympic stadium for my dc, they had to get up in front of everyone in assembly to collect a special award 🤣

I did it years ago with ds1 when he was in Y1. They were learning basic times tables and he came home with a website to log into to practice...as many correct answers as you could in 2 minutes.

Well ds did his sessions and finished. I thought to myself I'll just have a quick go...it was a bit addictive. I realised that the questions got harder with each session and I was a bit of a whizz at it.

I didn't realise that the score was logged and recorded until an email was sent out with 'week one results' and 5 year old ds was top of the SCHOOL for speed and accuracy 😂

(In your face all you Year 6 kids that I beat) 😂

These are hilarious.

I did similar on times table rockstars. Got a bit obsessed with beating my score and hadn't realised it was logged and there was a league table. I ended up owning up though but teacher didn't particularly care.

Haha that would be me although my talents would probably be at be nearer four year old.

How on earth...? 😂

@SingingSands we need more info. Did he book himself in for ‘that surgery?’🤣

Haha! He had just moved house to a new town and went to register at a new doctors surgery. He announced himself as a new patient and asked if they could register him. He was stood at reception giving all his details, name address, etc and then they asked for his pet's name.

"Is that a security question?" says dad
"No, it's for our records, we need the name of your pet" says receptionist
"I don't have a pet" says dad
"But.. this is a vets.."
"I thought this was a doctors surgery?"

Then he properly looks round and sees the posters on the wall... 😄

Me and my dad made DS1 an earthquake zone with a split in the ground (hard to describe!) Dad made the basic construction and I decorated it with a wooden house from my childhood falling into the crater 😊 He got an A and I take the credit to this day!!

This is priceless!

In biology I had to draw an inanimate object with body part names. I chose a violin (neck, ribs, tailpiece etc). My dad was an artist and quite well known locally and he drew the violin for me. When it came back it was marked "B (and A+ for Dad for the picture).

During Covid DS1 had to make an igloo out of items from the recycling and show it to the teacher over the online learning platform.

Of course I ended up doing it and at one point I remember getting quite stressed and batting DS1 away when he was trying to add something that didn’t fit with my igloo aesthetic

Think I’ll have to blame Covid madness for that one

@SingingSands oh that’s a good one!! Is he more diligent in taking note of his surroundings now?!

more importantly is his coat nice and shiny?!

My child got certificate for most improvement in one week on TTRS. It was me. It wasn't intentional.