AIBU to wonder what on earth kids are being taught in schools these days??

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So context; my DS (13 m) loves diet coke. He is not normally allowed fizzy drinks but I make an exception for meals out, cinema etc. Diet coke is a treasured substance for him and what he doesn't finish he usually tries to bring home. He went to the movies with DH yesterday and unknown to me came home with a huuuge coke.

This morning he is grouchy and wants to use the microwave (he has to ask because he has a track record of causing accidental explosions). I ask why? He shows me the precious coke and it is frozen solid, like the godzilla of popsicles. He wants to use the microwave to melt it. Again, I ask why? His response:

So that the ice cubes wouldn't melt.

I know that states of matter were covered in chemistry this year and he takes food tech and they also covered the water cycle in geography. He gets pretty good grades in all three subjects and he has no special needs apart from CSDD (common sense deficiency disorder- I just made it up but he has it).

AIBU to call his school and demand to know what he is even being taught in these lessons when, as a teenager, he doesn't understand that water freezes when you put it in the freezer???

Let him use the kitchen so he can learn these things or in 5 years he might be living independently and still be clueless.

Hahahhahah. This gave me a very much needed laugh this morning! I remember getting ready for a day out on holiday and everyone being angry at me for holding everyone up because I was sent back up to change out of shorts because "i saw some blue sky". Which would have been arguably ok if we were not in Orkney at the time and I didn't live in Inverness where you could easily have a foot of snow and blue sky at the same time and I didnt have the ability to feel temperature.

It will also lose its fizz if melted. He definitely seems to have CSDD - explain in words of one syllable that he should have put the ice cubes in the freezer and the drink in the fridge, re-uniting them in the morning. (Don't use re-uniting them, it has more than one syllable).

Honestly, some of these responses did the OP really need to put the "lighthearted" disclaimer on her post? Surely it's pretty obvious. Maybe her DS isn't the only one with CSDD...

Well I thought it was funny, OP, especially his "track record of causing accidental explosions"

I agree with some PPs: most people don't actually learn about states of matter through textbooks. Drawings of ice cubes and molecules are all very well and good, but the assumption is most kids will have practical experience of freezers, kettles etc. Keeping him away from the kitchen isn't going to help! (It isn't going to help him in food tech either.)

I know they can seem like morons but 13-year-olds generally have the sense to keep themselves safe around obviously dangerous things like fire and ovens. At least the ones whose parents have exposed them to these things do, I can't speak for the others!

This boy is 13 with not much common sense if the OP is to be believed.

That's nothing to do with his schooling.

Haha my dd does stuff like this. It's hilarious.

That is funny - it's DEFINITELY telling you that you need to start letting him in the kitchen though - he's about 5 years behind at this point 😆

I discourage him from entering the kitchen and handling appliances

great approach, keep him low skilled and ignorant then laugh at his errors

I assume this is a joke post.

You want to call the school because your son wanted to defrost the coke he froze in the microwave. I can assure you, that is not part of the curriculum.

You're in shock 🤣

I actually have a ds like this, it's a nightmare.

I taught my ds how to use appliances, make sure you turn off the gas stove etc but by the time he was 16 DH refused to go away and leave him home alone.

My DH was convinced he would leave the gas on.
He did leave the gas on. With us in the house. Twice we know of: once lit, once unlit.

My DH was convinced if we let him have candles in his room at aged 18 he would burn the house down.
So we had a no candle rule (sorry dds, blame your brother).
He accidentally burnt down our shed.

He's at university now and every time he moves accommodation we are so happy they don't have gas cookers.

Hah. We teach States of matter in Y7, but my Y9s do seem to have forgotten EVERYTHING over the summer so I just did a whole lesson with them on it yesterday...... I say Y7sand 8s mostly have etch-a-sketch brains, one shake and its all gone! 😂

Love your CSDD, my eldest obviously has it now I've heard of it! How i never diagnosed it before I do not know

This is my reaction to be honest. People seem to expect schools to teach everything, like parents have no responsibility. Teaching children how to freeze/microwave things and what happens as a result is a parent's job IMO.

All my children have CSDD. I feel for you.

😂😂😂🧊🧊

I find myself more curious about the explosions than the coke. Perhaps he'll be an MI5 Q as an adult....unless he's lured to the dark side👀😳 jk....hope jk

I remember microwaves being such a novelty when they came to mass market in the early 80s. I was nine or so - my sister and I were microwaving any food we could find in the kitchen and learning the hard way what did and didn't work. That microwave (a 'Swan') lasted nearly 30 years - they don't make them like that any more

He sounds thick af, I'm not sure how much school will help with that ...

This is nuts 🤣🤣

Schools teach subjects to a syllabus, they can’t teach everything on top of that. The rest is up to us as parents.

Is this a joke? How on earth does this have anything to do with what’s taught in school?!!! Smarten up on basic parenting re kitchen skills, oh, and take some responsibility for his lack of knowledge re such basics

Ok either way the updates this is definitely a son issue not a school one!