LucyStoner Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 So what have you realized your kids didn't know? Recently on some mental math review some questions about probability were based on a standard deck of cards. Like what are the odds of getting a red face card sort of things. "A deck of what?" "Cards" "Note cards? Christmas cards? Whaaaaat!?" "Playing cards." ;) Having not seen cards since he stopped playing go fish on a stylized kids deck as a little kid, my 10 year old was mystified. I explained that there were 4 suits, 2 red and 2 black and the cards were numbered 2-10 and then there was a Jack, Queen, King and Ace and he was even more baffled. We walked to the drug store the next day and bought a deck and he promptly took to teaching himself card tricks. I also started playing go fish with little brother using the regular cards and not the stylized kids cards with cartoons on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aug17girl Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My kids didn't know what to rent meant. I guess with the demise of the video store they had never seen us rent something until I dropped my husband off at the car rental place. They are only 6 and 4 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary in VA Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Both my dds have graduated now, but my oldest, now 23, liked to pull my chain about this when she was in high school. We'd be having a conversation about something, e.g, history and Martin Luther would come up. She's innocently say something about him living in England. I'd start off with a," NO! You know that he was from Germany. I taught you that, remember? Remember he posted the 95 Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg? Doesn't that sound German?" And then I'd look at her and see a tiny smile and a glint in her eye. :laugh: She'd do that every once in a while and still does on occasion. Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plateau Mama Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 We just realized my almost 12 to doesn't know all the months of the year. He starts with his birthday (April) and can go to December but had no clue January came next. He knew we were in Feb. ( with some prompting) but could not tell you the month before is Jan or the next Month is March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My DD had trouble with an ACT practice question because she didn't know there were 26 letters in the alphabet without counting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSOchristie Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Another months/days, though I think we finally have days down. This is embarrassing in front of other parents, particularly non-homeschoolers, I keep meaning to teach them to him...and then I forget. I tried to do calendar with him in Kindergarten last year, and he hated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Ds went to college (homeschooled K-12) and didn't put his name on his paper. It was a small class and the teacher knew it was his. So.... dd started putting her name on everything she did during homeschool, its cute to look back at her papers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My kids don't know what a toaster is. We've never had one. Every time a picture of one comes up in the Explode the Code books I get a blank stare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My son (around 6 yo) didn't know what a coffee table was. We had one, but we always called it, "The Brown Table." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifesadream83 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Sad but for the longest time my daughter thought that Barnes and Nobles was the library because I always buy our books. The first year we homeschooled (2nd grade) her mind was blown first when we went to the library and then a week or two later when I told her we had to return books! LOL... now we go to Barnes and Noble for everything again because the late fees were getting out of control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 A while ago one of my daughters was texting another homeschooling friend. She asked me, "who is Sade?" I said, "do you mean the singer?" She said, "no, in all of the rap songs and stuff they talk about a girl named 'Sade,' who is she?" I said, "OH, you mean SHORTY. That's what they call girls. Shorty/Shawty." She furiously texted her other homeschool girl friends who had been mulling over this question, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I realized my 7 year old doesn't know how to shake hands. The chorus instructor held out her hand to DD1 and, after staring at it for a minute, she reached out and held it with her left hand. My kids don't know what a toaster is. We've never had one. Every time a picture of one comes up in the Explode the Code books I get a blank stare. We had a similar problem with the mop. :ohmy: I do mop, I swear! It just doesn't look like the kind they drew in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonduck Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My kids have no clue what an iron is. I discovered last month that my daughter thought Martin Luther and Martin Luther King, Jr. were the same person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 A while ago one of my daughters was texting another homeschooling friend. She asked me, "who is Sade?" I said, "do you mean the singer?" She said, "no, in all of the rap songs and stuff they talk about a girl named 'Sade,' who is she?" I said, "OH, you mean SHORTY. That's what they call girls. Shorty/Shawty." She furiously texted her other homeschool girl friends who had been mulling over this question, lol. Haha--I didn't know that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 We were talking about colors the other day (actually, it was the "what color is a tennis ball" issue) and dd said - "Oh no! You are going colorblind just like Beethoven!". :blink: :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMV Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I'll admit that as a third year medical student I really had no idea how many cigarettes were in a pack. (Kind of useful since smoking history is often quantified in pack-years.) Additionally while six packs are a bit self explanatory I really wasn't sure how many beers were in a case (or how much whiskey was in a fourth either for that matter). I'm still a nonsmoking alcohol naive individual but I at least know what is out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I realized my 7 year old doesn't know how to shake hands. The chorus instructor held out her hand to DD1 and, after staring at it for a minute, she reached out and held it with her left hand. We had a problem with taking attendance at swim class. They heard their names called and said, "What?" I motioned at them to raise their hands so they did... and left them up until their instructor came by and helped them put them down about a minute later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Ds10 is a voracious reader, and he reads very quickly. So quickly that he got annoyed with read alouds and refused to participate anymore when he was 6 because I read too slowly. Fast forward 4 years, and the other night at dinner he was telling us about a video game he had started and commented that in the game dragons are the "hair-bringers" of doom. :huh: :lol: When we finally stopped laughing we explained the correct pronunciation of harbingers, and talked about words dh and I pronounced incorrectly because we had only read them and not heard them aloud so he would know it is a common thing for kids who read a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary in VA Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 When we finally stopped laughing we explained the correct pronunciation of harbingers, and talked about words dh and I pronounced incorrectly because we had only read them and not heard them aloud so he would know it is a common thing for kids who read a lot. :lol: :lol: I was a crazy reader when I was a kid and I can still remember two words I mispronounced in my head every time I read them. Pneumonia- something like Pu-moan-ia. And in one book there was a main character named Geoffrey. I had never seen that spelling before and thought it was Gee-off-rey. I still silently chuckle when I read that name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I'll admit that as a third year medical student I really had no idea how many cigarettes were in a pack. (Kind of useful since smoking history is often quantified in pack-years.) Additionally while six packs are a bit self explanatory I really wasn't sure how many beers were in a case (or how much whiskey was in a fourth either for that matter). I'm still a nonsmoking alcohol naive individual but I at least know what is out there. So, how many cigarettes are there in a pack? Do tell! I still don't know! Sheltered, I guess. :laugh: And I worked in a gas station for a while in college! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMV Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 So, how many cigarettes are there in a pack? Do tell! I still don't know! Sheltered, I guess. :laugh: And I worked in a gas station for a while in college! Apparently twenty! So yeah, someone with a 10-pack year tobacco history would have smoked around 74,000 cigarettes...yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 My dd had to take a statistics class in college and when they came to the probability unit it was all about gambling. "On a roulette wheel what is the probability of getting a red?" "An odd number?" "00?" "If you are playing poker..." "When playing blackjack...." Not only did dd not know any of the answers; I didn't know any of the answers. How many spaces are on a roulette wheel? Are 1/2 of them red & 1/2 black? Can you bet on a color & not a number? Thank goodness for the internet where we looked up how all those games work. Amber in SJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 For some reason, DD1 also gave a completely blank look when asked her last name. After I reminded her she she said "oh, the really REALLY in trouble name". *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Ds10 is a voracious reader, and he reads very quickly. So quickly that he got annoyed with read alouds and refused to participate anymore when he was 6 because I read too slowly. Fast forward 4 years, and the other night at dinner he was telling us about a video game he had started and commented that in the game dragons are the "hair-bringers" of doom. :huh: :lol: When we finally stopped laughing we explained the correct pronunciation of harbingers, and talked about words dh and I pronounced incorrectly because we had only read them and not heard them aloud so he would know it is a common thing for kids who read a lot. Terry Pratchett would LOVE " Hair-bringers of Doom!" :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Yesterday, ds thought the Capitol was the White House. WE LIVE IN DC!!! :smash: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 hahha--these are good! This doesn't really fit, but the "hair-bringers" reminds me that for years and years, I thought the name of the author of the Little House books was Laura IGnalls Wilder. My eye just always read it wrong, I guess. I also thought the name Daphne was pronounced "Daffeen." I was so disappointed to find it really pronounced Daf knee, which seemed much less pretty to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 :lol: :lol: I was a crazy reader when I was a kid and I can still remember two words I mispronounced in my head every time I read them. Pneumonia- something like Pu-moan-ia. And in one book there was a main character named Geoffrey. I had never seen that spelling before and thought it was Gee-off-rey. I still silently chuckle when I read that name. I still think that when I read it.... :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My3girls Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 We had a problem with taking attendance at swim class. They heard their names called and said, "What?" I motioned at them to raise their hands so they did... and left them up until their instructor came by and helped them put them down about a minute later. I was just telling my dd9 about this the other day when explaining why she has to read aloud to me still. My word that I remember mis-pronouncing was facade. I pronounced it fa-kade with a long a in the second syllable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I was just telling my dd9 about this the other day when explaining why she has to read aloud to me still. My word that I remember mis-pronouncing was facade. I pronounced it fa-kade with a long a in the second syllable. Me too! My other word was naive. I always said it as "nAve". I remember when it finally clicked, I laughed out loud. :) This happened last night with dd15. She didn't want to loan her tea mug to her sister because sister wanted to put coffee in it. She used to have a plastic one that definitely took on coffee flavor, however now she has a stainless steel mug. I told her this saying that it shouldn't stain the mug. It took a few seconds and then all of a sudden she said, "Ohhhh! Is THAT why stainless steel is called stainless?!!!" We all had a good laugh about it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My kids still call magicians Ma-gi-cans. They know the right way now, but the "magicans" have a special status in their pretend play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My 10yo just asked me to buy OJ. Specifically "Tropic-ah-na". "You mean, Tropic-ann-a?" "You say anna, I say ahna!" Lots of pronunciation funnies around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Oh, I thought of another one. When we were watching a video about the Civil Rights movement my older son asked me why they had cars. I was like "why wouldn't some people have cars in 1960?" It turns out that he assumed that the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement were either the same thing or happened right next to each other. That was a good laugh. The downfall of teaching mostly ancient and middle ages history up until that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy the Valiant Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My (voracious reader) 8yo just KNEW the "y boat" in the Boat Alphabet book was going to be a "yatch-et" . . . hahahaha! He was right . . . sorta-kinda. He does enjoy working on those "anna-LO-gees" I bought for them this year, though. (I did explain that "analogies" does not rhyme with "pierogies." He very seriously told me that since some people we know do speak with a fairly heavy accent, that he felt that that word was also up for some interpretation. I countered that with the observation that native American speakers are more limited in their - shall we say - "applied pronunciations" - but he was not falling for that one. I guess he'll figure it out eventually.) Home schooling cracks me up, most days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 While watching the Olympics my son, who is almost 11, told his sister that the eagle on the US athlete's uniform was "the Animal of Freedom for the United States". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Texican Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My daughter had a toy battery run out. I told her she had to wait until I went to the store to buy more triple A's. When she saw the battery she called it a crazy battery. She obviously thought changing the battery meant I was going to plug it into the wall. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Additionally while six packs are a bit self explanatory I really wasn't sure how many beers were in a case (or how much whiskey was in a fourth either for that matter). I think that would be a fifth of whiskey! It's 750ml. I remember my teenaged daughter asking once why veterinarians were so often out of work. She'd just seen a man on a corner with an "out of work vet" sign. Here's a thread on a similar topic. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My daughter had a toy battery run out. I told her she had to wait until I went to the store to buy more triple A's. When she saw the battery she called it a crazy battery. She obviously thought changing the battery meant I was going to plug it into the wall. :) A couple years ago DS1 came to tell me that we needed more F/N batteries when I was at the store. :huh: It turns out he had left a toy on (again) and when he mentioned it to DH, DH responded "we need MORE F'in batteries?" :lol: Well, at least DH censored himself, lol. I've joked about F/N batteries ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 for years I though Geoffrey was pronounced Goff-ree. Oh and until recently I pronounced Joy Hakim as Hah keem and Apologia --app o low geeah Never said I was qualified to teach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My ds18 still has some pronunciation "issues" - one that comes up frequently now in our college search is "housing" which he pronounces "house-ing". My 7yodd pronounces "piano" as "planno" - exactly the way her eldest brother pronounced it at her age. Sigh. I don't know where they get that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 A couple years ago DS1 came to tell me that we needed more F/N batteries when I was at the store. :huh: It turns out he had left a toy on (again) and when he mentioned it to DH, DH responded "we need MORE F'in batteries?" :lol: Well, at least DH censored himself, lol. I've joked about F/N batteries ever since. Totally an aside but that reminds me of the conversation that happened at the afterschool care last night. I was sitting next to 2 girls playing 'Life' on the computer. The one got her career and it was an athlete, only girl #2 called it an "auth-lete" (sounds like author), so I looked at here and said "Auth??" and she says "no, I mean Ath, she's and Ath" yup, rhymes with a$$. Well child number 3 was walking by and heard her and then ran for the other teacher to tell her that girl #2 was swearing calling girl #1 a bad word. All because of an "auth-lete" lol We were still chuckling about it today. As for kids not knowing stuff, I recently realized that ds10 did not know the days of the week or the months of the year, he now does as does dd6, but couldn't tell you what comes before or after a particular month without singing the whole song first that I used to teach it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanabug Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My dd8 still doesn't know how to spell our last name. It is rather long, but still...Neither one of the girls know their address or phone number. I've tried over and over, but for some reason it just doesn't stick with them. And now we're about to move and I'll have to start all over! Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Dd4 is really very advanced at the moment in many areas including reading, math, science, etc...I send her to a non-academic preschool for six hours per week, mostly to play and do lots of messy things with other kids. I had a giggle with my hubby because the preschool sent home a 'report card'. The only skill she had missed was in not properly locating her SHOULDERS! We thought this was hysterical as the kid can name all the major bones in the body, and we play a game singing "head, shoulders, knees and toes" in four different languages. Hysterical that is, until daddy asked her to point to her shoulders, lol! She vaguely gestured somewhere in the vicinity of her upper arms:) Guess we should slow down the game instead of trying to see how increasingly fast we can sing it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I love these pronunciation funnies, which, like many things in life, can be linked back to my current favorite TV show, How I Met Your Mother. Cham-uh-LEE-on anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Oh, gosh, what *is* the real pronunciation of Hakim and Apologia? hay kim ah pol low geeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My 5 yo spotted a cigarette box on the ground the other day and yelled, "Look! I found a box of camel food!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busymama7 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My 5 yo spotted a cigarette box on the ground the other day and yelled, "Look! I found a box of camel food!" Hahaha!!! That reminds me of the time my oldest (then about 6-7) saw a beer display at the grocery store. He got so excited and pointed and said look there's the football juice!! It should be noted that we are lds and no beer had ever been drunk in his presence. This was totally the fault of advertising during games ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Ds16 just started a course at TAFE (I think something like USA Community Collage?). After the second ay I asked him if the tutor asked lots of questions, he replied Yep. I asked him is he able to answer any of the questions, YEP. (good, I thought). Then Ds said that he answered all the questions and the tutor asked him to let the others have a chance to answer some questions. I asked ds does he raise his had before giving the answers. he gave me a funny look and said no, are you meant to do that? (Oh dear, Oh dear I never taught him classroom manners of raising hand before answering a question). At least he isn't as shy as I though he was going to be. He is the youngest student. the next youngest student is 26 most of the class are in their 30s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabinfl Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 When my twins were in preschool, I had a chat with the teacher one day because she was concerned that they didn't know how old they were. Up to that point (they were almost 3), i'd never thought to tell them! Oops! My youngest twisted her ankle one day and told me she hurt her "foot wrist" -- good logical thinking anyway, right? :D Since we started history with the ancients and are moving forward from there, they have a LOT of gaps where PS 1st graders have learned some American history by now. I try to fill in the culturally important bits & pieces around national holidays and such, but there are still some "interesting" conversations with kids & adults from traditional schools. At least they're getting to practice the Pledge of Allegiance in scouts (oh, and there was my son's British preschool teacher, and the period when he would insist that our national anthem was the Star Spangled Ban-NAH whenever I'd say "Ban-NER"). :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My 3yo doesn't have gaps. He has inappropriate knowledge. I don't drink wine, I rarely drink beer. Me likes my coconut rum. So I started making a drink last night. And my 3yo likes to observe in the kitchen and make sure things are done right. "Ooh! Now you put in the red juice! Now you put in the pineapple! Now you mix it aaaaaallllll up! Mommy, why do you need more of the black bottle? You like more of the black bottle? Is that better now?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 My 3yo doesn't have gaps. He has inappropriate knowledge. I don't drink wine, I rarely drink beer. Me likes my coconut rum. So I started making a drink last night. And my 3yo likes to observe in the kitchen and make sure things are done right. "Ooh! Now you put in the red juice! Now you put in the pineapple! Now you mix it aaaaaallllll up! Mommy, why do you need more of the black bottle? You like more of the black bottle? Is that better now?" LOL! I've overheard mine saying, "I do school and exercise so I can grow big and strong to drink beer like Daddy!" On the subject of inappropriate knowledge and mispronounced words, I don't allow my kids to play violent video games. Really! But we have a Halo-themed strategy board game where you build different maps, roll for weapons and moves, try to "capture" the other team or flag, etc. They play this game almost every day, and it's the basis of their pretend play. For example, Master Chief just saved all the endangered species from the African deserts yesterday with the Kratt brothers! Anyway, DS4 kept trying to get a "plasmin" rifle in the game. DS5 would correct him, saying, "It's plasma! Plas-MUH!" DS4: "There's no such thing as a MUH, it's plas-MIN!" We're not quite to the schwa in phonics yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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