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?

We had this too. Things like 45 past. She seems to have got it now or just looks at digital clocks.

They think they don't need to because the phone stores it for them.

When we, as adults, were planning our small wedding we decided that parents, sibling and aunts/uncles only would be invited but when I started to make a list I realised that most of the people I'd called Aunt/Uncle all my life were in fact cousins as my father was the youngest of a large family and his sister's children were almost his age!

I have to admit I have absolutely no idea about bus etiquette - having not been on one since I was about 15 - many, many years ago. I would have no idea how to get one to stop, how to pay, or how to make it stop where I wanted it to!

I watched a programme about the Royal Marines. Part of their training is how to shower! Partly to get them to do it fast and using minimum water, as supply might be difficult in some situations, but I'm also convinced it's because some lads reach pongy adulthood without realising it's not enough just to get wet, you have to lather up and scrub the armpits, groin and feet before rinsing off.

Laurie Lee wrote in Cider With Rosie about a boy being told to stand over there for the present on his first day at school. When he was collected he was very upset because he stood there but didn't get a present.

I remember staying with my grandparents when I was very small and when we got the bus into town IT WENT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

It was quite a visit. I grew up in a place with no hills, but my grandparents lived at the top of one and you could see the traffic moving on the opposite hillside and my brain refused to compute this.

You would need to put so many 'triggering' warnings on them though these days and MN would be flooded with parents claiming that their darling had been traumatised, missing the point entirely.

I also put foil-wrapped butter in the microwave one time.

I don’t even have the excuse of being a child and not knowing any better 🫠😂😂
I was in fact 25 years old a and chronically sleep deprived mother of a 4yo, a 3yo and a newborn 🫠🫠😂😂😂

I knew someone who never explained post to her son.

His iPhone broke so she told him to send it back to whoever he bought it from so they could repair it, as requested. He put it in a normal envelope and put a first class stamp on it. Was shocked it never got there. He was in his second year of uni.

I'm 68. My middle name is Ann - or is it Anne? I still have to look at my birth certificate to check, because for some reason, the correct spelling just doesn't stick in my brain.

And Year 2 SATs

I very firmly told him he needed to trust me and that sleep or not has nothing to do with reproduction and never to rely on that theory!

I've always thought that 'sleeping with someone' is an odd phrase as there's little of that going on!

That an “overdraft” isn’t money the bank is kindly giving you. One of my daughters didn’t find this out, to her horror, when she was about 23.

DC has a whole heap of things he can't do - half of them because he's the youngest of 4 and was never allowed to or never needed to, and the rest because he's got ASD and dyspraxia and although incredibly intelligent has zero common sense. Also it's so irritating trying to teach him when he's working out ways round not having to learn.

Couldn't tie shoelaces, he read the average person wastes two years in a life time tying shoelaces, decided that was stupid and he's happy with velcro anyway. Now he's an adult size 12 and velcro shoes are few and far between he's just about rethinking.

Can't ride a bike, happy to run. This is great, however looks really stupid when we are all riding and he's running along behind like we couldn't be bothered to buy him a bike.

He wanted a lift back from school after a school coach trip this week. I texted him to let me know when the coach has left the motorway. "How will I know?"

He was about 12 before he worked out how to use the tv remote control but that's mainly because his siblings wouldn't let him.

I love this 😀

My late OH just bought black socks for most of the year, if we were on holiday and he was wearing lighter shoes he would buy a pack of beige ones.

Being a parent of a dyslexic child I because of the very long school days at 8:15 till 8:30 pm it didn’t enforce household chores, big mistake having read around the subject household chores are more important than homework. I really really regret not introducing household routine. It was all I could do to them fed and to bed
but in hindsight the homework wasn’t nearly as important as basic household chores,
also I didn’t allow embark on teaching about budgeting bills mortgages loans interest rates etc but left it till 17 to late imo
schools don’t teach this vital life stuff they should,it’s so important

That if the toilet is blocked flushing it will not make the blockage go away....😳😅🤣

Teaching lace tying was my late OH's piece de resistance, he started at the end of the process. He would tie the lace up to the point where the two loops were pulled tight, when that was mastered he moved a bit further back in the process and so on, it worked really well.

My DS was shocked when he finally found out that I could only get money from the cash machine if I had some in my account and that I had to earn it. He thought everyone just took what they needed! If only!

I was teaching oldest to drive as one does

He was about 4 and a half and we had been allowed to use a diesel shunting locomotive as you do

I told him to put the brakes on which he did

Forgetting of course that when you put train brakes on you just let the air out and the brakes just keep on going on until you select 'Lap'

AH!

Grab the control lever and set to Lap before we fly out through the windows

DH was out when DGC were visiting one day. They were playing happily on the carpet when DH returned. Elder DGC, delighted to see him but somewhat surprised said “hello Grandpa, why are you at Granny’s house?”
He has also started asking us “what’s your not-Granny name?” so it’s clearly clicked that Grandpa and Granny aren’t actual names.
When he was a bit younger if we asked him “who’s Daddy’s mummy?” he would say “mummy”.

Discovered last week (in the context of 14 year old DS): if anyone ever says to you "can you just take this (unspecified item) for me and look after it for a little while?", always, ALWAYS say "no".

He now knows.

My nephew was about 10 when he overheard his mum and I on the phone. She told him she was on the phone to her sister. He had no idea that Auntie TimeToStopLurking was his mum's sister!

He announced, "well you never told me you had a sister". We assumed it was obvious, clearly not. Glad to know there are others out there