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?

When I was about 8 my teacher said she came from Swansea and I was surprised that she came all that way every day to work in Bolton!

I grew up in a Christian household where we went to church every week and read the Bible etc. I wasn't a sheltered home-educated/religiously-educated child though. We were an otherwise pretty average family.

My parents used to joke that the duck-billed platypus was "made from all the bits God had left over". Except they never explicitly said it was a joke.

I was 17 before I had a sudden realisation that the Bible doesn't mention platypuses anywhere and that they came to be in the same fashion as any other animal.

I had also only ever heard the word "potent" in the context of a "potent smell". I was at least in my 20s when I realised that someone being "omnipotent" didn't mean they were "all-smelling".

Roll a J or cut a line,👀

I watched this! It’s a bit cringy but I remember thinking how I wished every man had been told how to wash his bits properly!

It took my 3yo almost a year to understand that his sister was a person/human. We'd always referred to her as a baby and hadn't realised that he thought "baby" was a different species. His mind was absolutely blown one day when we watched a film with a montarge of a character growing from baby to child. He was totally overwhelmed by this realisation and spent half an hour crying and hugging her.

This has got to be the cutest thing I’ve read ! It’s made my day ❤️

How to spell his full name. He’s always been known by a shortened version and on bump up day to junior school at 7 years old they said he needed to write his full name and he had no idea..😬

that is wonderful

We took our children aged 9 and 7 to see Ed Sheeran. When we pulled up at the stadium they asked us where we were and why lots of other people were there. They thought we were going to his house !!!!!

You need to be careful with time in Germany and maybe other European destinations, if you agree to meet at 'half 7' you may have problems, we understand half 7 to mean half past 7, the Germans mean half before 7, better stick to 19.30!

This is pretty embarrassing but my DD (18) started uni last year.
I've worked ft since she was about 13 and she's been able to cook (basic) meals for herself since about age 11.
But we visited her at uni and she said she had bought something for DH. Iirc it was a tumeric shot that she had bought from the refrigerated section of Holland and Barratt...but then kept in a cupboard

I was sure I had prepped her with basic cleaning, laundry and cookery skills....but obvs missed the part about storing food!

Telling the time on an analogue clock is taught in year 1, 2, 3 and 4. It's then revisited in year 5 and 6 via problem solving.

I'm shocked that your child managed to miss every single one of these lessons because of covid.... that's really unlikely. If they've genuinely missed that much school, you must have realised they had knowledge gaps!

How did you or their teachers not realise? Surely it's a life skill that parents teach at home as well!

Where to stick a stamp on a letter. We lived in a country without much of a postal service and sending letters by post wasn't really a thing.

It didn't occur to me to explain it to my kids when we returned to the UK.

One of my loveliest memories from when my daughters were small was the sight of my mother and Aunt, her sister, in their 60s, playing hopscotch on the drive having chalked out a grid.

Growing up rural I can completely relate to these bus ones!

In a village you don't flag the bus down, the driver sees you at the bus stop and ALWAYS pulls in! There's no question over which bus you're waiting for because there's only one an hour if you're lucky and they all go to one place only 😂

Had a nasty suprise in Manchester as an 18 year old visiting a friend who had gone to university. Not only did I have to actually check the bus was the right one I needed, but I also had to wave!

How to tell time, sort of assumed the school would do this.

I also distinctly remember I never knew my own birthday, and whenever I was asked all I knew was it was just after Christmas! I remember being quite shocked to discover it was actually more than a fortnight later, as I had assumed it was only a day or two. Never had a good grasp of time passing!!

My teacher in primary one told us all as a class to write our birthdays on whatever we were working on and I remember asking her what date will my birthday be this year I don't know but I know it was 8th August that year 😳 it still regularly crawls out of my long term memory to make me cringe even if I was only 5 😂

Only child here - I can remember having it explained to me what siblings are. TWO children with the SAME parents???? Mind blown.

Had a friend who went to France aged about 8 and was shocked and distressed to learn that the French speak French ALL THE TIME. Thought it was just rolled out on special occasions like national dress or something.

There’s a 17 year gap between me and my older siblings, so I’m closer to my nieces and nephews both emotionally and chronologically. There’s always been a bit of confusion about the family tree for newcomers. It blew my niece’s daughter’s mind when she discovered that I was her grandma’s sister and her mum’s aunt!

I discovered today (last day at nursery) that my 3 year olds teacher lives in the house I grew up in. Said 3 yr can’t work out which is worse, that the teacher doesn’t live at school or that mummy used to live there.

Ask me how I found this out at the age of 14 😂

I didn’t teach my daughter how to spell her middle name! Think we worked this out when she was about seven 😂

My DM actually ironed socks and place them very neatly in flat pairs in the drawer. I decided life was too short for that when I got my own place and just chucked them randomly into the drawer, but then the disorganisation also annoyed me. I'm pretty sure I only did the "pair up, roll over at the ankle" method after examining DH's sock drawer. He is not the tidiest man but likes to be able to find matching socks.

I was teaching year 5 last year (so 9 and 10 year olds).

I asked then to write their date of birth down. Three children said they didn't know. They each knew their birthday was on X date last year but didn't know what date they were born on or what date their birthday would be on that year.

It seems so obvious but it's clearly not.