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Share your funny stories of teaching your DCs something with Hotel Transylvania 2 - £300 voucher to be won!

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MichelleMumsnet · 23/09/2015 09:48

Hotel Transylvania 2 have asked us to find out what stories Mumsnetters have about moments when teaching your DCs maybe haven’t quite worked out as planned…

In Hotel Transylvania 2, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while his mother Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. As Mumsnetters well know, teaching your children to do something isn’t always as simple as it seems….!

You can watch the trailer below.

So, have you got any funny stories of when you were trying to teach your DC something? Maybe you were trying to teach your child to read and they came out with some inappropriate interpretation of a word? Or perhaps you were teaching your child to cook when they decided that the cake batter would work better as a face mask? Whatever it is, we’d love to hear your funny stories about teaching your DCs something.

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 John Lewis voucher! Runners up can also win 1 of 2 exclusive Hotel Transylvania 2 goody bags!

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Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

OP posts:
maureen3733 · 27/09/2015 19:26

i taught my daughter how to wash her her but she tried it herself but instead of shampoo used my very expensive body wash. i was gutted.

pgwynne · 27/09/2015 20:05

When my DS was 6 1/2 we decided to teach him how to ride his bike, but my DD decided that she also wanted to learn to ride her bike. She was 4 1/2 at the time. My DH & I spent a whole summer running in two different directions. It was very entertaining. ????????????????

Marg2k8 · 27/09/2015 20:09

When trying to teach my DS that he had come from 'in my tummy' he thought I had eaten him.

shivbrown · 27/09/2015 20:25

Teaching my son basic house rules don’t shout from upstairs to down stairs, Then I shout from upstairs to down "Jamie have you got any washing" Then when I came down he said "Mum I didn’t answer as you were shouting from another room, You know the rules…." Learnt my lesson ha-ha

feefeegabor · 27/09/2015 20:59

My daughter asked for some help with her biology homework in year 5 - I sat down with her to look through it, not realising it was the reproductive system - which led onto a lot of questions about "sex". At least it got THAT conversation out of the way nice and early!

mave · 27/09/2015 21:05

Teaching my youngest daughter to use her manners and be polite, so when my husband asked to move out of the way of the TV whilst watching the rugby the other day, she says "I'm not moving until you say excuse me, don't be rude daddy, use your manners!"

daisyduck123 · 27/09/2015 21:25

When my son came home from school using some not so nice words for certain parts of his body., I sat him down and explained that they were slang words and that it was fine to talk about his body but he should use the correct words.
Later that night my brother came to visit and as I walked into the kitchen to make a cuppa, he sat down on the sofa. The one that we had at the time had wooden arms and he caught his lower back on the arm as he sat.. I heard him say .. " Oww my coccyx ! " Immediately my son said in a loud stage whisper... " Don't let Mum hear you say that.. you've got to call it your penis!"

beckyinman · 27/09/2015 21:35

We were at a wedding and my little boy sang Happy Birthday in the church and tried to blow out the candles. We had obviously taught him that's the only time you get candles!

oliviajones · 27/09/2015 21:39

Teaching DD to iron, we've had a couple of burnt shirts!

compy99 · 27/09/2015 21:49

telling the neighbours that I went to school with Shakespeare! some confusion with my learning Shakespeare at school! my attempt at teaching an introduction to the classics went awry!

lhlee62 · 27/09/2015 21:57

Teaching my daughter about money, we got her a money box and that was it she was constantly asking for money. She would stop anyone walking through the door and ask for money, she got quite a bit of spare change from friends and family!

Rebbbie · 27/09/2015 23:36

When teaching my daughter to hold a fork, she was holding on to it a little too close to the prongs, so I said to her "hold it a bit higher". She looked at me, puzzled, and raised it up in the air!

Laineyflo · 28/09/2015 05:02

I spent ages reading Roald Dahl books to my Ds (they're my fave) and gave him a few little facts about him along the way. For some unknown reason, he now thinks Roald Dahl is an Astronaut..I don't know what went wrong there!

createbeauty · 28/09/2015 07:59

Teaching my 4-year-old ANYTHING doesn't go to plan! He already has a plan in his little head about what he's going to do and no matter what I say, he has to carry out his impulses before he'll listen to anything, and even then he doesn't seem to take anything in!

phillie1 · 28/09/2015 09:12

My husband teaching eldest daughter all the line from the Original Italian job film, and then her just keep reciting them everywhere, especially the one 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off' very loudly whilst in church on a sunday

lizd31 · 28/09/2015 10:01

The funniest thing ever was when we took my nephew to Blackpool for the day when he was 3. Dad took him into the public toilets & he used the urinals for the first time. Dad went to wash his hands & when he turned back saw Paul bending down washing his hands in the trough. Dad was horrified & had to give his hands a more than thorough wash. When he came out we all cracked up laughing.

glennamy · 28/09/2015 10:04

Teaching my eldest daughter how to drive, like pouring water onto burning oil - just do not do it, EVER!

southernsun · 28/09/2015 10:57

Teaching our son to dive when on holiday a couple of years ago and constantly telling him to be careful not to hit the bottom of the pool only to go and hit it face first myself. Think he got the message though.

carolacr · 28/09/2015 10:58

My youngest stuggled at reading, so i tried to make it fun. I copied all the words in her word tin, For instance "Look" putting some eyes in the O's. I stuck it on the door: "Look" that says "Look". Reply "Look", What does it say? "DOOR", No its "look". "Look". what does it say "Door". Should of stuck it somewhere else

JoJoBaldwin · 28/09/2015 11:51

Trying to teach my daughter anything ultimately becomes a learning experience for me. So far I have learnt that I have no patience and should never, under any circumstances, become a teacher! Forget doing homework after school, it has to be done in the morning when bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, or else we end up with tears before bedtime.

gamerwidow · 28/09/2015 12:02

My daughter refuses to be taught anything . She already know it all at aged 5. I have to try to trick her into homework by pretending her toys are doing it to.

farhanac · 28/09/2015 12:59

Don't walk until the red man appears. So she stopped half way across the road.

Anononooo · 28/09/2015 13:08

Teaching...usually tied up with 7 circles of Hell for me and DC.

strawberrisc · 28/09/2015 13:47

I am so committed to my daughter's education as well as everything else in her life. I've taught her the times tables, how to count, the alphabet...

Unfortunately I have never ever been able to teach her to tell the time. I've tried every method I can think of but she just can't get it!

voyager50 · 28/09/2015 13:54

I explained to 4 year old that I wanted to stand on the road side of the path so he wasn't next to the traffic and because I wanted be splashed when cars drove past in the rain instead of him. He then jumped in the next puddle and soaked me because he thought I wanted to be splashed!