To resent bloody school and their insistence on educating my child?

[HoneyDragon]

I mean some of its annoyingly unecessary, right?

The little sods just wandered into the kitchen, nonchalantly picked up the tablet and typed in fifth harmony and now I'm stuck listening to Worth It

She's sounding out One Direction now and won't give up the IPad

I'm fairly certain when I went to primary school I was eating sand and struggling to put my tights on after PE interspersed with arguing over the gold crayon and plasticine.

Am I being unreasonable to despair of today's educational standards? Surely I can't be he only one with examples of children being unnecessarily educated?

You lot make me laugh, cheered up my day, thanks everyone for your humour😂😂😂😂😂😂x

"Muuum, if there were 3 men naked men in a changing room would you say you could see all the penises or the peni?"

I'd reply that I'd not be looking and had gone into the male changing room by mistake. :D

Now the child can read, nowhere is safe. Muttering "little twists, little twists, little twists" all the way round Sainsburys is bad enough(and what crap those recipe ideas are anyway), but when walking past graffiti DD pipes up "what's blap blap mummy?"

Dont have DC yet myself, but remember my much younger DB learning how to use a computer and spell out words on it without the rest of realising he could do it (we'd all grown up without PCs). DF would sometimes spell out words he didn't want DB to hear, and I remember one time little DB slipping off out the room when this happened. Shortly afterwards I found him staring thoughtfully at the comptuer screen, on which he'd typed out:

bolx

Bolx

Clearly taught with phonetics

Yeah...not impressed when my 5 yo DS came out of 'toilet tent' in Go Outdoors tent display area, pulling up his shorts after relieving himself in there

Noooooooooooo!!!!!

Does this help?

In Latin, pēnis is a third declension noun ending in -is. Its nominative plural is pēnēs. In English, penis is a noun ending with an s, so its plural is formed by adding -es: Penises. It may also retain the Latin form in the plural: Penes.

In our house it's penums. When in doubt, go wrong.

Despite having two hanging around in this house, the occasion has never arisen where we've needed to pluralise them, let along have a wrong version

DD could programme the DVD player aged 5 I can only just manage it now & I'm the tech savvy one 10 years bloody later too!

potbelly You should have just bluffed it out in a shameless, performance parenting type way. Praised him in a loud voice for being so clever and able to read it before quietly dying when you left the shop.

My son sat down and carefully written out instructions for us to build a new house this afternoon. He wants to start work tomorrow.
He'd never have done this before going to school and getting ideas. Thankfully I can tell him we're all out of "brix" and "semint" but no doubt they will have the audacity to teach him spelling soon.

When Ds2 was 4, I was cooking tea and he was investigating the computer.

"MUM! I've changed your password! " he says proudly.

I broke the under 5 foot 4 mummy hurdles getting in there...

" And what have you changed it to sweetie? " I said

He thinks...

"I dunno - I'm 4 and I can't spell yet..."

Knackered46 - go on, tell us what happened next

They've even taught DD to count money and everything so she's always pestering for X number of pennies to get to the next pound. I mean it's incredulous that a 7 yr old knows the value of a note by its colour