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

When my mum went into labour with me. The neighbour had agreed to look after my sister. The neighbour asked how my mum was doing when she handed over my sister. My mum joked if it was too late to change her mind about having a baby, saying 'I've had a change of heart'. My sister then told everyone her mum was in hospital because she was having her heart changed. Apparently the teacher was really confused!!

When I was young, I thought we wished people a 'Mary Christmas' because Mary was the mother of Jesus.

It took a while to realise that people were actually saying 'merry'.

There was a kid in my school who was from America. When I first met her, she introduced herself as 'Windy'. I honestly thought for about 6 months that she was named after the weather. Turns out she was actually called Wendy but with her accent, it sounded like 'windy'. I actually used to shout to her (in my northwest English accent) 'hey Windy, are you coming out to play with us?'

I only discovered her name was Wendy when I saw it written down.

I love all these. My 8 year old just asked me "Why are their Iceland bags in this country?" and i had to explain it is a frozen food shop as well as a country.

When I was teaching i had so many funny moments. So so many children thought that we lived inside the Earth! And that there was some roof we had to open to get to space. I had a lovely year 10 ask me one day, as we were watching a clip about mining "miss, when did it stop?" "When did what stop?" "Being black and white". Yep, she thought that in the olden days things were actually in black and white.

I also had two girls explaining that you couldn't walk around the whole world. Yes i agreed, you would have to get in a boat and sail across the sea for some of it. No, not possible they say. Because the Earth is spinning on it's axis, so if you try and walk around it, you won't get anywhere, because it's like a treadmill (I tried to explain that they walk around on the Earth daily, and they don't stay still, but they weren't having any of it 😁)

At the end of reception, the class had a day with their new year 1 teacher. DD really enjoyed it and liked the new teacher a lot. Spent a few days talking about 'when I am in Miss X's class', what Miss X said, what Miss X did etc.
Then we were talking about buying a present for the reception teacher. It was only then that DD realised she wouldn't have her adored reception class teacher any more and was inconsolable. Not quite sure what she thought was going to happen, shows they don't always connect facts.

When my Grandma gave birth to my uncle, many moons ago, she was asked by the midwife what she was going to call the new baby. My dad piped up "Fire extinguisher" 😂

My mum always referred to unwanted pregnancies as accidents. This left me very scared when aged about 12 a boy brushed past me with his flies undone I thought this was my accident and who would believe I was innocent

I thought this too. My mum told me about periods when I was a small child but I thought that the blood just gushed out of you constantly forever more at all times.

My mom is from Yorkshire but we lived in the Midlands. If it was a bit dark and looked like rain, she'd say '"it's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's." I genuinely used to think Bill's mother lived in a house down the road. That was probably until i was at least 10!

The children were all standing after playing a game in reception class. The teacher told 'all the little boys' to sit down. My DS stayed standing and when he was asked why he replied 'because I'm a big boy not a little boy'.

A few years ago now but

DP: I'm just going to go jump in the shower, won't be long.
DS(4): Oh! I didn't think we were allowed to do that.

Polite student, about 9 years old, while writing news asked very nicely, how do you spell fuck? Was quick witted enough to ask for her sentence. Reply? We went to Nor-fuck on holiday. Managed to keep a straight face 😂

GD 7 said yesterday - What's ambition? is it a type of coffee?

We looked bemused until we realised Dolly's 9 -5 was playing on the radio

Tumble outta bed
And I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition

I'm not sure how long it took us to stop laughing

Love that @Lifelessordinary1 😂

I used to look behind the TV as a child
in the 70s as I thought that’s how you got on it. I remember thinking that I didn’t fancy squeezing through the wires! 🙄

When I was younger I thought articulated lorries artics for short , were lorries that only did deliveries in the North/South pole !

These are great.

I remember asking my goddaughter where elephants come from when she was about 7 and she said ‘Marks and Spencer’ I queried this but she was adamant but clarified it would need to be a ‘big M and as’ and then explained - My mummy says you can get everything you want in M and S. 😂😆

Actually, while you could never get elephants from M&S, there was a time when, rather worryingly, you could from Harrods. Though not, I'm sure, at a price that many could afford.

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/harrods-to-close-its-world-famous-pet-shop-and-replace-it-with-women-s-fashion-floor-9050931.html

My aunt was on local TV in the 1970s, this was A BIG DEAL in the days of 3 channels.

So we (mum, dad, me, brother) went to her house to babysit her children and to watch.

But my cousin had a complete meltdown when he saw his mum on the TV, he couldn't understand why his mum was on TV, I think he thought she was actually inside.

@ddl1 have you seen 'Christian the lion'? A couple of Australians bought a lion cub from Harrods.

I don't even want to admit how old I was when I realised they weren't the words to that song

When I was little I was horrified and refused to eat sausages when I found out what they were made from. My mother’s work around was to buy venison sausages and assure me that they weren’t made from pigs. It took me a while until I questioned what exactly venison was and was then horrified again.

My DD was very disturbed today by a road sign today "Cats Eyes Removed". She was very relieved to find out it was just part of road resurfacing, not cruelty to cats.

My Infants Headteacher used to say she had eyes in the back of her head so could tell when we were naughty. I took it literally had went home and told my parents Miss had 4 eyes, 2 in her face and 2 in the back of her head.

Not a child's misunderstanding but....I live near Alexandra Palace (not the Eiffel Tower!) and there's been a series of concerts over the summer. My husband asked me who was playing the other week. I replied Primal Scream. He misheard me and thought I said Palmers Green, and has been calling them Palmers Green ever since.

I remember when I started Reception being very glad when the end of my first term came, as I was very tired. The Headmaster said in assembly how well we had done to get through it, my parents said similar.

so you can imagine my horror when I eventually twigged it wasn’t the end of term at all, it was the end of the first week.

it had just seemed sooooo long at that young age, which made me then totally misunderstand all the talk about getting through the first week as being done with the first term completely!