to think that by year 7, children should know their own phone number?

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I taught DS and DD our home phone number from an early age - certainly by 6 they knew what it was, in the form of a merry little jingle.

Three times this term DS has had friends over to play, and they then wanted to stay for tea / go to the skatepark etc.

I asked them to phone their Mum/Dad (on our home phone) to check- none of them knew either their home phone number or either of their parents' numbers.

"I've left my mobile at home" was the best response.

AIBU to think that, irrespective of modern gadgetry, knowing your home phone number, aged 11, should be normal practice?

I don't know what my home number is, or my mobile, or DH mobile .

The only number I know by heart is my parents', which has been the same for the past 25 years. Maybe I should start trying to memorise them, but tbh I have my work cut out just remembering my pin number (and I can only do that by remembering the pattern it makes on the pin pad)
For some reason I am not very good with numbers!

Lot's of people don't have land lines anymore, just mobiles, and their numbers may change frequently. I haven't had a land line for a few years, after I realised I only used it to find my mobile. I don't know any of my friends land line numbers any more. I don't have a single land line number in my contact list...

So yes, ftr you are being unreasonable.

My DD knows our phone number to the tune of the line "this old man came rolling home".

I'd love to hear her telling someone!

I think all children need to be drilled to remember one or more contact numbers as soon as they are capable of it. I taught mine my mobile number not home land line, as that is the number I'd answer wherever I was.

So no, it doesn't need to be home land line, but yes, children should know a parental number as early as possible. It also helps end the panic quickly if you lose one during a day out.

my yr7 doesn't know our home no, but in her defence she has lived in 9 houses in 3 different countries. I have had the same mobile no now for the last 2 years so she has just about learnt that. However at her school they have a parent directory (online in the parent portal area) where you can look up any childs home no (as long as their parents have given permission) so the children don't have a need to know numbers

my 7 yo dd doesnt know our phone number, our address or her birthday (not even the month!) but she is dyslexic

YANBU - DD is nearly 7 and knows our home phone number and also address with postcode as well as her best friends home phone number (which I only discovered when I found a lot of calls to her friend on the phone bill

I think its important they know in case they become lost or some other problem arises

YANBU. I agree with you. DD's known our address, home number and my mobile number since she was about 7. I doubt she'd recall the postcode, but the rest I know she knows as she filled it in on a form the other day for school.

All my Brownies (age 7 to 11) learn their number as part of their Brownie skills badge along with such things as looking up emergency numbers in Yellow Pages, sewing on a button and using a bus timetable.