Really obvious things you didnt teach your child (Lighthearted)

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Lighthearted, please don't come for me; I honestly do all the homework, reading etc just had a massive blind spot and looking to feel better.

DD6 had some homework this week to do her immediate family tree, lovely, she drew a big tree and we printed off some photos of everyone and it became clear that DD had absolutely no idea how all the random adults in her life were related 😅

She has a pretty typical set up 4 grandparents, 1 GGparent, 2 sets of 1 aunt and uncle and a couple of cousins, who we mix with at least weekly. I thought referring to my Mum as "Mum" for the past 6 years would have helped her make the connection but apparently not, bless her.

Anyway, it was an interesting learning activity and I think she's mostly grasped it now so no harm done ...right?

How to change a tyre. It's really important too.

For years, I had no idea that my DD thought that our extended family gatherings were a bunch of mates meeting up. Realised when she asked if I had met Grandma at school and were we in the same class!

I love this 😂

Ah, if you were in Scotland she would know that ye cannae shove yer granny aff a bus, cos she's yer mammy's mammy.

My parents forgot to tel me that Scotland was attached to England. I thought it was floating somewhere off the top of the weather map, too far away to fit it on the TV weather map and since the weather people waved their hands upwards in the general direction it all seemed to fit.

I rationalised “Edinburra” was a different place than “Edinburg”.

Shocked aged 9 to discover we could drive there!

I am, needless to say, an ashamed Londoner.

When teaching DDs how to cook,I told them if they could smell gas, turn everything off, open the window and leave the kitchen.

I didn't tell them what gas smelled like. Leading to DD not realising the hob hadnt lit and getting confused why the pan wasn't getting hot and smelt funny...

I found out this week my 11yo dd can’t tell the time on a normal clock. 😳

She missed these lessons in school about Time due to covid and despite us always mentioning the time etc she’s never actually figured it all out and because she has a phone and a digital watch it never clicked that she couldn’t read a clock or know what we mean when we say 25past etc.

My DS too!!

My first dc had a choir event, quite a big deal. We had to buy him a white shirt for it. Told him to tuck it in and he looked really confused. He went to a school where you wore polo shirts or hoodies. We never dress smartly as work doesn’t require it. He literally couldn’t understand why or how to tuck a shirt in 😳

When I was small my parents took me to ‘see Jupiter’ at some event somewhere where I saw a piece of huge equipment being unloaded, covered in sheets, from a big lorry. I guess they thought I was too young for anything to be properly explained and thought I’d just be in awe looking at a planet through a projector. I was only 3.5, it’s one of my earliest memories.

For years after, until I was about 8/9, I was convinced Jupiter was actually very small as it had come out of the back of that lorry. When anyone tried to tell me anything about planets I would just assume that they hadn’t done their research as Jupiter was the smallest planet, not the biggest. So I’d just smile politely and think oh well, their parents obviously didn’t take them to see Jupiter as a child so they don’t know any better.

When I was in school, we were asked to draw pictures of our family tree in a template. It had 4 boxes for grandparents and I remember asking the teacher what to do as I had 6 grandparents. She dismissed me by saying 'just draw your real grandparents', which confused me even more because they were all just granny and granddad to me, I didn't have a clue what she meant!

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I think it's quite normal for a child that age to have not quite twigged that grandma is mummy's mummy!
I'm a primary school teacher, and I've had to explain grandparents more times than I can count.

We had an apprentice at work (aged 17 or 18) who didn't know how to peel a satsuma. He had to ask about if he took the "white bits" off or not. You should have seen his face when he discovered what was inside an avocado!!

I tenner my son being shocked when he realised that my parents used to be married, despite him knowing they were my mum and dad. He was about 12 and asked me how they knew each other 🤣🙈

My youngest was about 13 before I realised he didn't know his postcode!

Same here!
She says things like 40 past because she doesn't really get "20 to" etc. We're going to get her watching videos on BBC bitesize over the the holidays to try to crack it

Washing her pits 😦 when she started showering alone I asked her one day of she did and she said no because no one told her to. She'd just been using shower gel. In her body/arms/legs. Luckily it was before she started sweating so she didn't smell.

I remember my Mother telling my younger sister, to 'watch the milk' which was heating up on the cooker. But she forgot to tell her to switch it off when it boiled. So my sister watched it - and the milk boiled up and over the edge of the saucepan, all over the cooker 😂😂

On my DD’s first day of school they were told to play in the shade and she didn’t know what it meant.

I didn't know my parents address when I was growing up
I lived with my grandad and he'd drilled his address and phone number into my head but nobody thought with would be a good idea to teach me my parents address
We had to write it down in a lesson at school and I got into trouble for writing down grandads address instead of my parents one (as I was registered at my parents)

I didn't teach my dc to read (I did practice with them!)
My father taught me how to read and I'm hopeless with it so I asked him to get them started and help practice over the first few years
He also taught them geography,history,maths,English,art and gardening (rather randomly!)

He missed his calling as a teacher

Most of these sound perfectly reasonable to me.

I am always surprised though by how few people teach their children their address and parent phone numbers. Mine have known them for years. Helpful too - DS' old phone battery was always dying and he'd be out and about and have to borrow a phone!

They need to know how to tell the time on an analogue clock for yr 6 Sats. My DS age 13 knows how. Don't people buy toy clocks to teach their children how to tell the time anymore?

Was so proud of myself toilet training DS1 in record time! Hand washing, wiping, etc. - nailed it. Closing the door first on the other hand... Still working on that before he starts pre-school as we totally skipped that step at home. Only realized when we went to use a public toilet with multiple stalls.

I blew my nieces mind when she realised that her grandma was not only her mum's mum... but also her auntie's mum.
She was about 6 at the time.

Telling the time is taught in all years during Primary school, so Covid can't be blamed for it.