Do your children know your number?

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For that matter, do you know your parents' number?

It used to be one of the most basic things for kids to learn.

I find this horrifying.

Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War
By Emma Bubola

As Russian forces laid siege to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol last spring, children fled bombed-out group homes and boarding schools. Separated from their families, they followed neighbors or strangers heading west, seeking the relative safety of central Ukraine. Instead, at checkpoints around the city, pro-Russia forces intercepted them, according to interviews with the children, witnesses and family members. Authorities put them on buses headed deeper into Russian-held territory....

“I didn’t want to go,” said Anya, 14, who escaped a home for tuberculosis patients in Mariupol and is now with a foster family near Moscow. “But nobody asked me.”

In the rush to flee, she said, she left behind a sketchbook containing her mother’s phone number. All she could remember were the first three digits.

news.yahoo.com/using-adoptions-russia-turns-ukrainian-141414618.html

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Mine doesn't yet, but she's 3. I write it on her arm if I'm taking her somewhere she might get lost.

I don't know my parents' numbers, but I do know my husband's.

DS is 3, so no not yet, but if we're out and there's a small chance I could lose him he has a band with my name and number he wears.
My parents? Landlines yes, mobile no. DH, nope. I would be screwed if I lost my phone. Thinking about it, that's so bad...

This is so sad. I used to memorise phone numbers when I was young. I know mine and DH's now and have to check them. Mobile numbers are harder to remember, as it was basically just 6 digits (after area code) for landline, but now it's 11(?) to remember.

My 8 hear old has known mine off by heart for a few years now. I'm a prepper, this is one of my preps. Probably about time to start teaching my youngest.

Saying that, I've absolutely no idea what my husbands number is, but could recite all my friends from primary school landline numbers 🤔

@YellowHpok me too! And I know all the landlines I've ever had, and I'm in my 50s.

I know my mums.

DS1 knows mine, he has a head for numbers and just memorised it when he was about 11.
DS2, I'm not sure tbh. He has it saved in his mobile obviously, but that's only helpful if its with him.

I know my parents landline, my mums and DHs mobile. Plus obviously mine and my landlines! And yes my childhood bestfriends

It just seems sensible, I have needed to know DH a few times.

I know all of my school friends old numbers.

I know no one's number now, except works.

Mobile numbers are too hard to remember. Just about remember own.

I wondered what the fuck this thread was about.

Maybe you should get the title edited to include 'phone'.

I thought it meant number of people you'd had sex with (and assumed it was about adult offspring).

Yes all my kids have known my number by heart since age 6 and our address and post code.
I know my DH by heart and he knows mine. But that’s it!

Yes my dc did, from quite young.
Oddly we were talking about remembering numbers quite recently, as I don't know anyone's mobile number apart from my own and my own work phone number.
It is MUCH more difficult to remember mobile numbers, as you have to remember all 11 digits without clues (after 07).
I can tell you my home number from growing up, and the numbers of quite a few of my friends.
I think I am going to make a determined effort to learn either dh's or one of my (adult) dcs' numbers and commit it to memory.

Yes I taught mine from around 2 years old in a sing song way like a nursery rhyme or car insurance tv advert, made it easy to learn as well as their address and mine and their dads full names

I know my mum's and my husband's mobile numbers, I know my work landline phone number too. My son is only a year old so too young to know any numbers.

This!

Plus, even though I know I know my own number, I never trust that I remember my own number. So, I always double check myself. It’s always right. But you never know.

My kids all know my number, and have from age 5 or 6. I know dh’s as he has has it for years. However I cannot for the life of me learn any of my children’s phone numbers. I think it must be the menopause. It does worry me.

No but I’ve tried to teach them. I do have some their friends numbers though just in case.

It reminds me to try again! I’ve got a memory for numbers but it takes regular revisions. I break mobile numbers into a rhythm along the lines of xxxxx xxx xxx

I had a friend who used to brag that she could recite the number of every single home she'd had, growing up - and here were quite a few.

I made our home number my phone and tablrt lock screen password. The kids learnt it pretty fast without realising.

I was thinking about this recently. When I was a child/teenager I probably knew about 20 phone numbers of friends and family off by heart. Now I know very few. At least my parents still have the same landline number!