When children get the wrong end of the stick - Light hearted

[Hopeandlove]

So my very intelligent 15 year old told me this morning that up until she was 7 she didn’t know she lived on Planet Earth 😂🙄😜
In her school they were taught to recycle to help save Planet Earth etc and she thought it was a different planet our paper was going to be remade and sold in order to raise money in order to preserve it.

She saw planet earth as this wonderful pure planet that was all green and blue with all nature on it and …. Not us.

We lived on the Ground. She asked her teacher eventually where Planet Earth was and her teacher said here and she got very confused.

She thought planet earth was very small and pretty as it could be held in god’s hand 🤦‍♀️And we had to be very careful it was protected from humans as some people weren’t nice! 👌

probably a lot of truth in that

Showed my six year old daughter a buzzard flying in the sky. She was very disappointed, having thought I'd said wizard!

I used to think something like that when my Greek dad had relatives to visit. I thought they were all just making up gobbledygook to annoy my English mum or something, and that when we all left the room, they reverted to English.

I remember as a child hearing my mum saying to stay out of harms ways. I thought it was a real street and was wondering what was so bad about it that you couldn't go there!
I also remember my mum having some friends stay over as a favour and hearing them thank her saying she was a lifesaver. I spent a lot of time wondering why how and why my mums friend would have otherwise died 😂

Oh gosh, another one. From my son this time, maybe aged eight or so.
Clearly misheard something along the way..
"But mum, why DID Hitler not like shoes??"

DD thought we were raising money for "Children in Neath" (Her cousins live in Neath).
She asked me why the children in Neath needed the money.

😂😂

To be fair, this is sort of true. Animals with slower heart rates tend to live longer on average but all get roughly the same beats per lifetime. I don't think it works on the individual level though, more like 'an elephant has a much slower heartbeat than a mouse and lives much longer'.

Also, according to family legend, DDis was disappointed in MMe Tussauds when she was young, because she didn't see the two swords.

When I was little we'd go and see my Great Aunt who lived near Hampton Court quite a lot. She looked after two girls (I think she was like a childminder to them) and they talked about the maze there a lot and getting stuck in it. In my mind, this was like quicksand, so when we finally went to Hampton Court I was really confused by all the hedges

My 9yo likes ice cream and Horrible Histories.

Unfortunately she misheard HH slightly as she told me she had worked out why Neopolitan ice cream was called that... it was named after the French Emperor and looks like the French flag.

She knows he's called Napoleon now (and the ice cream relates to Italy not France)

Was dissmissing my class of 5 yo when one boy asked if he could be an ant tomorrow. I was a little confused and he said 'you know for insect day'. The next day was an INSET day 😆

I told my daughter that a friend had got a toy poodle, when we arrived at my friends house and the dog was their - my dd exclaimed thats its really like a dog and not a toy....

My niece, aged about 6, misheard a conversation about people dying "...in the war". The war memorial in their city is a large one with marble walls with names carved on. She thought the people died "...in the wall" and were now stuck in said marble walls.

Both from my brother when we were young. We had a cat growing up but often went to a local park where we met people walking their dogs. My mum asked someone if we could clap their dog and when my brother was told he could clap it he gave it a round of applause.

Then a few years later he was learning to tie his shoelaces and my mum told him to hold the tongue while tightening his laces. He held onto the tongue in his mouth instead.

Until I was 16 I thought in the song 'Something inside so strong ' he was singing...'You hide behind walls of Cherry Coke'!...of course he's saying Jericho 😂...sing it out loud people 'you hide behind walls of Jericho'....yes see? Sounds like Cherry Coke 🤣

This one is a very old joke.

Both from my brother when we were young. We had a cat growing up but often went to a local park where we met people walking their dogs. My mum asked someone if we could clap their dog and when my brother was told he could clap it he gave it a round of applause.

Eh? What meaning does 'clap' have where you come from? Does it mean 'stroke' or 'pet'?

My Dd used to get very excited and shout "Look! The Eiffel Tower!" when she saw an electricity mast. Poor sheltered child. 😀

Yeah I had to look this up too. Apparently it does mean stroke/pet. I probably would have applauded too!

Yes clap means to pet/stroke. We're Scottish and it's common here, I didn't realise it wasn't known elsewhere.

This is absolutely adorable

My grandparents used to talk about going down Memory Lane and I thought it was a real place.

When ordering a McDonalds my eldest DD then about 6 asked if she could have the gerk out of her burger rather than the gerkin. She is now in her 30's and is not amused that we still find this story funny.

Yes, but it was delivered very well and made me laugh.

I think I would have clapped too!