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?

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I do remember dd1 being wide-eyed with amazement when I explained that I was Mummy’s Mummy, and Grandpa was Mummy’s Daddy, but she was still very little, not much more than 3.

I have Yorkshire ancestry and spent a long time confusing my children by asking them to “side” the table.
Now that they all know what it means and all live back down south they take great pleasure in confusing everyone else

During Covid I finally had to break out the never used ironing board and iron DH’s shirt before an online call (I hate ironing, always send shirts out). As I did this DS stared at me in absolute shock and said what on earth is that?? He was 11 and had evidently never seen anyone iron anything….

🤣🤣

Might be an urban myth but I remember the story of the woman whose parents were early adopters of a microwave oven. They were worried about the “waves” escaping so told her not to go too near the microwave as she might get pregnant.
Aged mid 30s she was still pretty scared of microwaves!

I lived rural too growing up and any place with more than a couple 100 people I would call a city 🤣

My 17 year old DD can’t tell the time on a normal clock, I think even her phone isn’t 24 hrs but we are now discovering underlying issues but thank fully if she goes out and asks what time she needs to be home for she’s back on time and she can get herself (more or less) to work on time

My 13 year old learnt today how to put the batteries in the tv remote. Everything else we have is plugged in to charge!

I found it this evening that despite having a bank account and debit card for over a year DS aged 14 doesn't know how to use an ATM

My grandchildren are the same with my ex. They've only just started to accept that I'm their mummy's mummy.

• that their 'Nanny' was actually their grandmother and not paid help
• that the children who went to breakfast and after-school clubs didn't live at the school
• that fleas were actually really tiny and it didn't hurt if they bit you (my son lay in bed quaking as he assumed them to be the size of rats).
• that you can't glue two pieces of a mouse back together and it will live
• that not all animals or people transform into something different (he'd been learning about tadpoles/frogs and caterpillars/butterflies at preschool and wanted to know what the cat would turn into.
• that you can't glue a dead fly to piece of folded paper and present it as a birthday card.

Haha I remember having the opposite confusion with the nanny thing - first time I met a paid nanny she was young (20s maybe) and I remember thinking she must have had kids reallllly young. I was obviously fairly old to be able to age her accurately (young primary pupils don’t bat an eyelid when I tell them I’m 107 for example!)

Having neuro spicy kids adds a whole other level of fun to this.
We realised at age 8 (during lockdown) that DS didn't know the days of the week. He just wasn't that interested! He's 13 now and after much effort he does know the days of the week, (just) but we're still working on the month's of the year.
He can however tell you where every country in the world is, probably their capital city, flag and political regime and recently passed a calculator test in maths even though he'd lost his calculator.

DD age 17 struggles with idioms. Last night I had to explain what "being a fly in the wall" meant. She's just finished A-levels, one of which was in English language.

I didn't teach my children to "twerk", yet they can both do it (at 9 and 7, I am thrilled). I wouldn't sweat it 😂

I taught teenagers (and supported as in-class support) basic maths. I hadn’t realised that an analogue clock was as mysterious as a sundial to many of them.

It was a bit embarrassing doing ‘when the little hand points just past the 10 and the big hand to the 6 we can all go and get coffee!’

Some were ‘oh I get it’ others couldn’t see the point at all…

I found out this week that while DD (aged 10) knew out postcode as we’d taught her our address when she was younger, she didn’t know that it was called a postcode. She was filling in a form (me trying to give her some independence) and had to ask what the word meant.

We bought our 6yo DS a watch and we made him wear it all the time to teach him to tell the time.

The day my kids realised their Granny is my Mum, their wee minds were blown!!

Not an urban myth but similar...When I was about 10 my Aunt fell pregnant after a drunken night with her ex (was obvs not 10 when I was told that 😂). She would tell everyone she got pregnant off the toilet seat. That scared the shit out of me, I couldn't be a mum at 10. I told all my mates you could get pregnant on the toilet. I squatted until I was almost 20 🤦‍♀️after a few years I realised she was talking rubbish, but I'd been doing it for so long I just couldn't sit down. My thighs were solid 😂

Only until year 4. And it's tricky, so those who don't practise at home usually forget what they've learned by the time they come back to it the following year. There are always a few who pick it up quickly but most kids struggle with it.
Sorry if someone else has already said this, I checked 5 pages and couldn't see it mentioned!

I ran a cafe and employed a student trainee teacher. She labelled food items with “31/4”. When I did the “30 days has September etc etc” rhyme she was speechless. She’d never heard it before and thought all the months had the same number of days.

It was a while before I understood the connection between a camera being used, and a photo. Back in the day when cameras used film, and it could be weeks between taking a photo, and seeing it.

My son asked, when he was about 5 or 6, whether brothers and sisters can marry each other. When I said no, he looked very worried and asked whether Aunty X and Uncle Y would get into trouble. I had to explain what a brother-in-law was 😂

I've tried to teach DS that so many times but he just has a mental block. If I ask him what date his birthday is he can answer, but it's always with a questioning tone as he's still not 100% sure.

In a pub quiz we had a question about Edward 11th.