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?

I haven't taught my 10 year old to tie his shoe laces

I love this 😂🙏

You'd think it would be something that they'd learn at home, actually. Imagine not making sure that kid knew basic general knowledge.

Apparently then we somehow utterly failed to address how the UK justice system worked properly with the eldest

This came to light when 19 year old was called up for Jury duty and was convinced there was an error as she wasn’t qualified to be a juror

Apparently then we somehow utterly failed to address how the UK justice system worked properly with the eldest

This came to light when 19 year old was called up for Jury duty and was convinced there was an error as she wasn’t qualified to be a juror

What?

my mum told me on holiday about “the birds and the bees” and how you used contraception.

i looked at her horrified and said “ but you’ve only done it twice for my brother and I” she explained not 😳

I was about 11 ! Absolutely disgusted at the thought !

Quite reasonable. Falkland is a place in Fife, relatively close to Dundee, where the cakes come from.

I must have been 7 or 8 before realising that the world had always been ‘in colour’ it was just photos and old film that used to be black and white.

That when you go shopping in a supermarket you don't have to take their bag for life. You can take any fuckers bag for life. A massive klaxon won't go off and the checkout assistant won't get you kicked out.

My eldest, when aged about 5, knew all the days of the week, but didn't realise that they went round in a sequence.
He would ask in the morning what day it was, and it took us a while to cop that he thought it was like a lucky dip, and if you were fortunate it would be Saturday.

My eldest - When he was about 14 he wanted to use a small heart shaped frying pan to cook himself an egg. Did you know that eggs can actually catch fire? 😅Cue lots panicking and son yelling at me that I should have told him to use a low heat! I thought it was obvious that you don't use the heat of a thousand suns to heat a small pan... (We still argue about who was wrong to this day) 😂

My middle son (now 18) announced the other day that he never did manage to learn to tie his shoe laces (as he sheepishly asked my eldest to tie them for him on a new pair of shoes...) 😳
I taught him around age 4, then brushed up on it a few times over the years if I noticed him struggle, but mostly he wore velcro school shoes and trainers until secondary school. Turns out he's just been winging it since then, tying a random knot and using them as slip-ons, or tucking the laces in the sides...

With time telling, my youngest has been able to tell the time since about age 5 (now 12) but until about a year ago worded it as "35/40/45 past" etc, no matter how many times I tried correcting him and showing him toddler clocks, worksheets, you tube videos... His Dad then overheard him say it like that ONE time, corrected him (by telling him he sounds stupid) and magically NOW he says it properly 🙄

DS was 5 when I discovered that he didn’t know what a goal was. We are not football fans but even so…..

Oh I love this thread.
Also another one here where my DS admitted that for years he thought my Mum, his GM, was just some random woman who looked after him!
Still struggles now to tell the time with clock hands (almost 17).
When we didn't have a bath or shower for a while I told him to wash using a flannel. He asked me how to do it!!!
Even though my DS has ASD and is entirely self absorbed, I think that kids today have a lot of other things to distract them/amuse them and don't watch 'mother' and learn that way, like I did.

I worked with a 22 year old who couldn’t tell analogue time.

Apparently, how to pull a duvet back onto the bed after you’ve kicked it off, judging by all the shouting and harrumphing coming from my 10 year old this evening.

How to spell their middle names 😂

I have one! As the kid not a parent, my mum never had me/taught me how to butter bread. I was at a friends house (about age 15) making toast and she said to me ‘wtf are you doing?!’ and showed me how to do it without ripping the toast. I knew how to do a lot of homey type things, I could make a roast, but not butter bread 😂

I once got told off by a bus driver for not putting my hand out. I did point out that, as there was a queue of people and that only one service stopped there, it should have been pretty obvious we wanted him to stop 😄

When I was little, I used to be very confused about the 'till death do they part' in the marriage vows, I thought it meant the couple had to separate from that moment on until they died.......my family thought it was hilarious when I said as much, and didn't explain it to me either (I think they expected me to realise of my own accord). So I was an adult before I realised what it actually meant: they stay together until death.
Well in theory anyway.

My 28 year old daughter doesn't know how long 10 minutes is. Or an hour.

When I was six, at a party, I was told it would be my turn first to pin the tail on the donkey. The party mum gave me the tail, and I went up and pinned it in the right place, and couldn’t understand why everyone laughed and said “cheat!”

Nobody had told me that I had to be blindfolded.

Aw I think it's totally normal that the connection between grown up family members is a total mystery to children. They are just people who have always existed, so the idea that they are different ages, or were children at some point, is just impossible for small children to fathom. I've never told any of my family this, but I thought one Aunt-and-Uncle set of mine were twins. I think I just cobbled together various bits of information that I had picked up. One, I knew that your parents' siblings were Aunts and Uncles. Two, I knew that my mum had quite a lot of siblings (actually 5). Three, I knew there were twins, and the Aunt in question was one of them. Four, sometimes there were funny stories about something that happened when they were kids, and let's say "John" featured in these stories - John being the name of this Aunt's husband AND the name of one of her brothers (however, John is not the twin. lol.) Five, I guess kids tv often has people (puppets, anthropomorphic animals, etc) living together, so it was just a bit Ernie and Bert. I do remember thinking that I wouldn't want to marry my brother 😆

They need to up their game with the toys inside an avocado. 🥑
How many wooden balls do you need??

I realised my daughter does not understand this same thing and for me has never been an issue. I understood instinctively from a toddler all these people and how they are related to me and and my immediate family