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?

Ummm.... surely nobody teaches their child how to sit cross legged - it's a bizarre thing you learn when you arrive at school and use for a very few years. Just wondering whether it might be just a bizarre English (as opposed to Scottish) thing?

It is a different place. Edinburg is in Texas (somewhere in the bottom right corner by the Mexican border). And Musselburgh was a burgh when Edinburgh was none. Not to mention that Musselburgh'll be a burgh when Edinburgh's gone.

My three year old sits cross legged. Nobody taught her - she just saw us sitting like that and wanted to be the same. I have no idea how the kids sit for circle time at nursery (not in the UK).

I got a map of Europe jigsaw for my children from a charity shop so they'd learn where the countries are. Unfortunately it was from the 80s so they learnt czeckoslovakia and east Germany.

Didn't you know that's how Rugby was invented?

Some of these are hilarious!
my DS, 21, got a cheque last year from his granddad.
he had no idea what it was.
when I told him he needed to pay it in at the bank he said
’at the bank? What? Where is the bank?’
he thought it just existed on his phone 😂

Well these days, you usually can pay in a cheque on your phone so he’s not wrong…

@Twoshoesnewshoes Here’s something to baffle children who read Mr Men books, which really dates the book, I don’t know if it’s been updated:

”Mr Clumsy went into the bank to get some money, but while writing a cheque he managed to spill ink all over the bank manager.”

And in the picture, the bank manager covered in ink is wearing posh trousers nobody would wear today.

Haha!
spill ink too - it would make no sense to my DS!

I did not know this!!!!!

Stripy ones with a black jacket?

When I first worked in the City some people still dressed like that. In old Monty Python episodes, they used that costume to denote "businessman,"

Barristers and hoteliers still wear them.

Speaking of cheques my husbands Nan and parents sometimes need to write him a cheque and he "banks" it on his phone in front of them then makes a big show of tearing the cheque in half - queue gaps all round where he explains (for the 100th time) that he has banked it on the app on his phone.

They don't get out much and aren't tech savvy at all so its great entertainment for all involved - bless them.

I've just thought though Im sure DD has watched this and has equally no clue what a cheque is ...

That’s right, striped trousers. Mind you, the mr men books show teachers with mortar boards, farmers in tweed, park keepers in smart uniforms: perhaps our kids will ask “did people really dress like that?”.

And if it hadn’t been in the news so much lately, they might not know what a “postmaster” is.

Bod goes one better..the characters all their own signature tune 🎶🎶

"Where is the bank?" The bank is in a big city near you (or not near you) so you will need to post it to wherever they have moved your branch to, or put it in a special envelope at the Post Office, or bank it on your phone, provided the elderly person who wrote the cheque has steady enough handwriting for the app to read it. We have had a small mail order business for 25 years and used to get cheques frequently. We're down to about two or three customers that send them, so that it can now be several weeks between cheques. As for banks, there were quite a number in our town of 25000 people when we moved here 9 years ago; now we're down to three (Barclays, Halifax and Santander - two of which will almost certainly have originated as building societies during my lifetime). Though, in addition to these three banks, one building society has opened up since we moved here and another has moved to a new and completely renovated office.

Our neighbouring town, which supposedly has a slightly larger population than ours but a 20th century "new town" and therefore not historically a centre for other villages, has no banks now and has a banking hub. Two other local towns of 20,000 (one of them also a "new town") have lost their last banks or are about to do so.

How to blow her own nose! 🙄

Just remembered my husband describing the detailed instruction he had to give my stepson to post my birthday card. He would not believe that his dad wasn’t winding him up when he told him that stamps could be purchased in Morrison’s kiosk 😆🙄

My DS2 passed his SATs (and GCSEs) but still cant tell the time, he has autism/ADHD/processing disorder and his brain just cant figure it out. He has a rough idea but its the 20 to etc that confuses him

Back in the day when they taught us how to write and send letters, I remember at primary school we had to write letters to our parents to tell them about our forthcoming swimming lessons.

I taught my dd how to cross the main road at a pelican crossing. However I taught her that when the green man comes on she is safe to cross. I never thought about when police, ambulance or fire engines with a red light flashing means she has to stop and let them pass. She just assumes they would wait for her because the traffic lights were in red 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sadly there are also other people who drive or cycle over red lights,

Apparently nobody ever taught my brother not to put a wet spoon back in the sugar bowl! He came to visit me about 10 years ago (in his mud-twenties), partner made him a coffee and gave him the sugar bowl (complete with teaspoon) while also placing a second spoon on the table. Brother uses the sugar bowl spoon to add two sugars to his coffee, stirs using the same spoon then places the wet, coffee-covered spoon back in the sugar bowl. To be fair we never had a sugar bowl growing up.

I realised last night that I hadn't taught DS how to read years. He was reading to me a sentence with the year 1971 in and he read it "one nine seven one"

When I was a child, primary age, my mum had told me that meat came from animals that died of old age. That lasted until I was 13 when my younger sister visited a farm and was telling us all about it at dinner that evening. She said ‘we saw where the pigs go to be slaughtered!’ I piped up with “Well, thats not right as they die of old age before becoming food, don’t they mum?!”
my mum avoided eye contact and said “about that…”