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?

My cousin's son and my name. I have an Aunt with the same first name. When my cousin would say Emma is coming and her DS would ask which one she'd say either Aunty Emma or Emma Smith. When he got to about 8 they realised he always addressed me as Emma Smith. Turned out he thought it was all my first name like Anne Marie.

There’s an excellent Numberblocks (CBBC) on telling the time. I think it’s an extended episode (so about 10 mins rather than 5) and is under the Specials rubric of the Numberblocks on iPlayer.

How to open a can of e.g. fizzy drink.

When they were little they always had Fruit shoots, cartons and straws or bottles. Now they're nearly teens they do occasionally choose fizzy drinks and they are absolutely terrible at pulling back a ring pull 😆

Well I don't know which brand it was, but the James White ones don't actually need to be in the fridge (while sealed), even if they are stored there in the shop.

The first time we took our kids on holiday to France we went to a local supermarket and stocked up on croissants and pain au chocolate. My youngest said that you'd think a whole different country would have different foods. It had never occurred to me that they wouldn't automatically know those were French. Lidl had made them very cosmopolitan.

I am autistic and dyspraxic and I always replace my shoelaces with elastic ones. So I only have to tie them once, and then I can slip them on and off.

You can actually sometimes put metal in them anyway. So then you get another level of people who always thought you couldn't put metal in microwaves, and then find out you can.

It needs to be rounded, no sharp edges. Some metal containers say they are safe (as long as they aren't dented). Also we have a combi oven which has a wire rack that is safe to be used on the combi setting (i.e. including the microwave).

My son recently asked me if it was ok to put food wrapped with foil in the air fryer. Because he had tried it in the microwave with bad results.

He's 29.
He's a trained and certified electrician.

And that was my bloody microwave he scorched! 😡

My 17 year old didn’t know how to use a tin opener…..
only found out when the tin didn’t have a ring pull opener…

I don't iron anything (just buy stuff that doesn't need ironing) except on the very rare occasion I need to. I must have got the iron out maybe once a year since i had kids. This year on its annual outing my dd10 looked truly perplexed and asked me what that thing was. She'd never seen one and I had to explain what it was for.

😂😂 My eldest asked me if I'd "accidentally" swallowed her sister. I honestly couldn't stop laughing.

About Time!

It starts at full height and moves round to the right, like the sun in the sky at midday...

Today I learned that DS actually CAN tell the time. I had no idea until I opened his school book and there were various drawings of clocks with the correct times written on them. In my defence, he has PDA and trying to teach him anything results in screaming but I had been beating myself up a bit that he can’t tell the time 🤣

I like to think he’s also going to suddenly absorb the ability to tie shoelaces too…

DS2 did this with his own name in nursery/reception! There was another boy with the same first name, so the teachers called them by their full names e.g. Timmy Smith/Timmy Jones, and the other kids copied that, so he started doing it too.

If anyone asked his name, he would answer TimmySmith (all one word). I think he thought we just used Timmy as an abbreviation!

On the subject of names, DD (4) doesn’t know her full name.

ie. If we ask her her full name she’ll say ‘Lottie Ann Humphrey’, rather than ‘Charlotte Ann Humphrey’… to the extent that if you show her the first letter of her full name, she looks at you completely blankly.

I reeeeally hope that school don’t put the long version on her peg in September 🤣

My sister phoned me the other day indignant that my dd11 didn’t know she was getting married after they spoke on the phone. Turns out dd doesn’t know what ‘engaged’ means. Kid got full marks on her SATs just recently. Worrying really.

We use nicknames a lot, and I only realised I’d forgotten to teach DD her name AFTER she’d started nursery. Oops.

I made sure to teach DS his the week before he started.

My toddler DS many years ago kept harping on about wanting a bike. It was relentless, every shop assistant/Post Office Staff/nursery staff/relative etc had heard his plea.

As he was born near Xmas I decided to buy him a bike a bit earlier than I had intended as it made sense to get it for the summer months and hopefully stop the constant nagging 😆. Bought a lovely '1st' bike with stabilisers etc (that was the style 30 years ago).

I really felt like the best Mum that day when DS walked into the living room with me proudly pointing to his new bike only to be told 'that's not a bike' and he never looked at the bloody thing. Still no idea to this day what he thought a bike was....

My middle on had an equally hilarious moment of innocent confusion but was must closer to the mark than his older sister 🫠😂

My third baby was born in a mad hurry. It was a planned home birth, but I was in labour for less than an hour - so DS was in the spectator seats for the full performance. He took great delight the next week at school drop off, declaring to the entire playground “MY BABY SISTER CAME OUT OF MY MUMMYS BUM! I SAW IT!”
🫠🫠🫠😂😂😂

DS once walked down to the village shop and bought himself a garlic loaf baguette for lunch. Fair enough - we hardly ever have garlic bread but he likes it.

He didn't realise you're meant to put the thing in a hot oven for a while. Said it was 'rather greasy' but tasted nice so he just continued munching. 😂

He's off to university next year, god help him. I have one year to teach him to cook, or at least to use an air frier.

My 22 year old didn't know what was meant by christian name and had never heard it referred to as that before!

We were stunned to find out that our 15yr old son believed that penguins were the same height as him, as he'd met some at the zoo, when he was about 4! 😂

My DC have 7 cousins and we see them all VERY regularly. We realised recently my youngest (at 6yo) doesn't actually know which is which . She can list the names so we assumed she knew them apart. It came to light when she told us Adam wouldn't iet her go on the trampoline. Cue "Adam" getting mildly told off but then she points out the culprit and it's another cousin entirely!

DD was in probably about seven before she realised baked beans weren't made from potatoes! I have no idea why she thought they were!

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