Bang!Zoom! Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 :glare: Now that summer is here, can I please have a break from this question? Any of you guys out there have a kid fixated on "what time is it?" Wouldn't matter if she was wearing a 30 watches herself, she'd still ask me.... I've pretty much taken to responding, "What do I look like? Google?" :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmama Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yep - dd asks ever 5 minutes. And you can't say 4:30 if it's 4:29 either - she will correct you. I'm sick of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorrelZG Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Mine doesn't ask. He tells me. Thankfully it's died down but at one point I was tempted to cover up all the clocks. That's what I get for deciding he needed to learn to tell the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yep - dd asks ever 5 minutes. And you can't say 4:30 if it's 4:29 either - she will correct you. I get a lot of this. It doesn't help that the oven, microwave and computer clocks are off slightly by 30 seconds or something, so I'll use the time from the "wrong" clock. Then when the clock changes, he asks what time it is. again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 "Time for you to learn how to tell time." "Time for you to go clean your room, since you are obviously restless." "Does anybody really know what time it is?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatashainDFW Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 DS does this and at this point I tell him to find a clock. He can tell time so why does he ask me??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunriseiz Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 "Time for you to learn how to tell time." "Time for you to go clean your room, since you are obviously restless." "Does anybody really know what time it is?" :lol: Awesome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Hmmm, time means nothing to us. Typical homeschoolers. Also, all our clocks and watches are completely off, sometimes by one hour. We usually tell time by the way the sun hits the house. And we're usually off by an hour or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yep - dd asks ever 5 minutes. And you can't say 4:30 if it's 4:29 either - she will correct you. I'm sick of it! What helped here with some of that was switching to analog clocks and unplugging the digital ones. We also had many (sigh) discussions about approximations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iucounu Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Adventure Time! (I thought I was coming into a fan thread for a minute there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Timely discussion. :001_smile: Mine doesn't ask. He tells me. This. you can't say 4:30 if it's 4:29 either - she will correct you. Yes. He tells me to the minute. What helped here with some of that was switching to analog clocks and unplugging the digital ones. We also had many (sigh) discussions about approximations. He can tell time. He is 9yo. He is usually fine if I round to the nearest 5 min, but he doesn't do it himself. Sometimes he will correct me. An hour ago I said it was 5:15 and he corrected me by saying that it was 5:13. :rolleyes: I have no idea why saying the exact time is so important to him. It certainly isn't something I started. Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lizbusby Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Not strictly related but this has been a hit at our house. Here's a way to adapt analog clocks for smaller kids: buy a cheap clock, open the clock, and remove the minute and second hand. The hour hand alone can be sufficient to tell time for littles. You can even mark different times on the clock face, like lunch, naptime, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staceyshoe Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I get a lot of this. It doesn't help that the oven, microwave and computer clocks are off slightly by 30 seconds or something, so I'll use the time from the "wrong" clock. Then when the clock changes, he asks what time it is. again. :lol::lol::lol: Glad I'm not alone. Ds has a need for precision with time. If I say something about it being 6:30, he will correct me if it's 6:29. If I quote the time from one clock, he makes sure he tells me the accurate time according to the clock that is synchronized with a satellite (or some such nonsense that I don't quite follow). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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