Tiramisu Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Dd asked today, "Did they celebrate Thanksgiving when Jesus was alive?" :huh: 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scholastica Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Well, technically Eucharist means thanksgiving, so kinda? Maybe? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Ha! Cute! Timelines do get confusing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Homeschool fail here, too: DS was asked what time period the Little House books were written in. His response: The Great Depression. :confused1: 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curlymom Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Homeschool fail here, too: DS was asked what time period the Little House books were written in. His response: The Great Depression. :confused1: Weren't most of them written in the 1930's? So even though they take place in the late 19th century, your DS was actually correct about the time they were written! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Weren't most of them written in the 1930's? So even though they take place in the late 19th century, your DS was actually correct about the time they were written! I had not thought of the question from that perspective. I took it to mean setting. I will pass this on to DS. :) 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Ds asked yesterday, "Should I make a card for the veterinarian for Veteran's Day?" :blushing: 26 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bttrflyvld Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 We'll at least she's asking questions. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Ds asked yesterday, "Should I make a card for the veterinarian for Veteran's Day?" :blushing: Just so you don't feel alone, I had to explain that, no, that person on the corner with a sign is not someone who cares for pets without homes. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama2boys1girl Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 When I told my kids it was Columbus Day, DS8 said, "Oh man, I'm not wearing green!" What? 23 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Some years back, when I asked where the pilgrims came from, one child said "Czechoslovakia". :leaving: 16 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 This one is more of a cultural education fail - At a costume party last week a man with a movie-worthy Ghostbusters costume asked dd "Who ya' gonna' call?" ... To which she replied with a quizzical look, "my mom???" Must watch more movies. 17 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Dd asked today, "Did they celebrate Thanksgiving when Jesus was alive?" :huh: After graduating high school, I went to South Africa with 5 others. One of the girls, who was still in high school, asked our host family if they celebrated thanksgiving. When they asked what thanksgiving was, she was shocked! We had to explain it to her later (she also was confused why they didn't celebrate July 4th.) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Too funny you guys! Thanks for the laughs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Ds could not find the word/picture for butter in First 1000 Spanish Words book and thus concluded Spanish speakers must not have such a thing. Because..you know..there are only 1000 Spanish nouns in the entire language.... 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 We were looking for fungi a couple of days ago and my 3 yo was a little ways from me and yelled, "Mommy, come here. I found a funny guy." lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 One of my DC made a comment about bunnies hatching from eggs (I'm pretty sure it was made sarcastically). To which I responded, sarcastically, "Yes, bunnies lay eggs." Then I realized my 5yo was listening and thought she probably thinks we're being serious. I really need to watch the sarcasm. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 We have these moments way too much. One of us usually quips, "Who is TEACHING these kids, anyway?" or "Their teacher should be fired." :leaving: 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 About two years ago, after we finished reading aloud The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we also watched the movie. Following this, we had a family discussion about Aslan. Following this, my youngest daughter said, "I've been meaning to ask -- Who is Asthma, anyway?" 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 My husband made a passing reference (to me) about the Zombie Apocalypse. Of course the girls overheard him, so they wanted to know, "What's a zombie?" He explained (I have no idea what he said). A few days later, we drove past a church with a sign that advertised Zumba Dance classes. Same youngest daughter asked, "Daddy, why does that church have dance classes for walking dead people?" 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Lol!!! Thanks for the chuckles!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplejackmama Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 "Mom did they have electricity when you were little?!" 5 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropymama Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Yesterday our Bible reading was from Matthew 8 - the part that says not to swear by your head because you can't make one hair black or white. Afterward I asked the kids to tell me what they heard. The five year old's response? We shouldn't dye our hair. I'm going to hell. 12 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 One of my daughters decided to make a chess set out of little bits of paper, each labeled with the name of the piece it represented. She managed to spell everything correctly except for pawn (yes you guessed what she wrote). I just said "Wow, that's so neat. Next time, remember that AW makes the aw sound on pawn" and left it at that. Now I'm worried that somebody else might enlighten her about what her spelling means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 "Mom did they have electricity when you were little?!" Well now, this makes sense. My kids know that cell phones and tablets didn't exist when I was little; if we didn't have something so basic, why assume we had electricity? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 This may be more of a product of too much time watching his siblings play Minecraft than homeschooling. A few months ago, DS2 (had just turned 5) was petting our cat and asked "Mommy, did we get Dax as a kitten or did we tame her from an ocelot?" 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethben Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I don't know if this is a homeschooling fail or a homeschool hooray. My husband was talking to the kids and asked if any of them knew what "remain" meant. He was going for "remain" as in stick around, stay close. My ds said, "A dead person." What?!?! "You know, the remains of someone who died." This is from my right brained thinker so the things that come out of his mouth are very much not the norm. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Ivy Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 After graduating high school, I went to South Africa with 5 others. One of the girls, who was still in high school, asked our host family if they celebrated thanksgiving. When they asked what thanksgiving was, she was shocked! We had to explain it to her later (she also was confused why they didn't celebrate July 4th.) I did this with my foreign exchange sister the first year she was with us. I asked her what they did for Thanksgiving in the Bahamas. It took me a minute before I understood why she laughed. Total lapse in logic on my part. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 DD, age 6ish, "What was it like when the dinosaurs were alive?" Me, unable to resist, "I don't know, ask Grandma." 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 One of my daughters decided to make a chess set out of little bits of paper, each labeled with the name of the piece it represented. She managed to spell everything correctly except for pawn (yes you guessed what she wrote). I just said "Wow, that's so neat. Next time, remember that AW makes the aw sound on pawn" and left it at that. Now I'm worried that somebody else might enlighten her about what her spelling means. Can someone enlighten me? This went right over my head. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Can someone enlighten me? This went right over my head. I'm fairly sure she used an "or" instead of the "aw". 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 We spent several months studying the Reformation. At the end of the study, when I asked my son who was the head of the Catholic Church, he said, "Henry VIII?" So much fail. 10 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 One of my daughters decided to make a chess set out of little bits of paper, each labeled with the name of the piece it represented. She managed to spell everything correctly except for pawn (yes you guessed what she wrote). I just said "Wow, that's so neat. Next time, remember that AW makes the aw sound on pawn" and left it at that. Now I'm worried that somebody else might enlighten her about what her spelling means. It's okay, I pronounce porn and pawn the same: she's doing fine. I did this with my foreign exchange sister the first year she was with us. I asked her what they did for Thanksgiving in the Bahamas. It took me a minute before I understood why she laughed. Total lapse in logic on my part. lol I, a Brit, have been asked how we celebrate Thanksgiving. I was so surprised that I lost my sark... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 My huge homeschool fail: not teaching the concept of semesters. When my twins applied for freshman fall 2014 admission to college, we received an acceptance letter a few weeks later that said, "Congratulations! You've been selected for admission to the Summer 2014 term!" So I asked my son why he applied for the summer term instead of the fall term. He said the application asked him when he wanted to attend, and he knew he wanted to start in August, and August is in the summer, so he clicked "summer" on his application. Makes sense, right? So a word of advice: if you plan to homeschool K-12 like I did, explain the concept of semesters BEFORE college applications go out. Lol! Totally makes sense. Now that I think about it your son is right and colleges got it wrong. August-December is like 4 months, also Jan-May, and they also have the "extra" Summer term...none of those last 6 months :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Dd asked today, "Did they celebrate Thanksgiving when Jesus was alive?" :huh: She knows about Thanksgiving, and she knows about Jesus...it's OK if she hasn't got the timing quite yet...many kids don't know about either, so you're good!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I'm fairly sure she used an "or" instead of the "aw". Thanks to Renai for asking the question & Jean for answering. I have a kid who often picks the wrong phonogram to stick in the word, but I never would have thought 'or' could be pronounced at all like 'aw'. None of the alternatives that I guessed seemed to be an issue. Pon? Paun? Pan? Puzzled me, but I didn't want to admit I didn't have a clue. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Thanks to Renai for asking the question & Jean for answering. I have a kid who often picks the wrong phonogram to stick in the word, but I never would have thought 'or' could be pronounced at all like 'aw'. None of the alternatives that I guessed seemed to be an issue. Pon? Paun? Pan? Puzzled me, but I didn't want to admit I didn't have a clue. Me too! The most common mistake I see for pawn has been pond. (And when I moved my pond here, he took my Bishop.....) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalAnne Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I was trying to explain Christopher Columbus sailing across the ocean and "discovering" the Americas to my 7 year old, as well as Native Americans living here before British settled on the east coast. To review, I asked him some questions. Me: And who was here before the Europeans settled here? 7 yr old: No one. There was darkness across all the land! THEN... Me: And what did they create when they arrived? (I was trying to get him to say "settlements" or "colonies") 7 yr old: Babies!! Sigh. :-) 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rutamattatt Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 We were reading Luke 2 for Bible several years ago. Somehow the virgin birth turned into the sex talk. I swear, it got away from me before I knew what was happening. 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 We were reading Luke 2 for Bible several years ago. Somehow the virgin birth turned into the sex talk. I swear, it got away from me before I knew what was happening. I think that is the best time for that sort of Talk. When it just happens. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Thanks to Renai for asking the question & Jean for answering. I have a kid who often picks the wrong phonogram to stick in the word, but I never would have thought 'or' could be pronounced at all like 'aw'. None of the alternatives that I guessed seemed to be an issue. Pon? Paun? Pan? Puzzled me, but I didn't want to admit I didn't have a clue. Pronounce "or" with an Australian accent and you'll see why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I was trying to explain Christopher Columbus sailing across the ocean and "discovering" the Americas to my 7 year old, as well as Native Americans living here before British settled on the east coast. To review, I asked him some questions. Me: And who was here before the Europeans settled here? 7 yr old: No one. There was darkness across all the land! THEN... Me: And what did they create when they arrived? (I was trying to get him to say "settlements" or "colonies") 7 yr old: Babies!! Sigh. :-) Snort! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 We live in the capital city of our country, and yet it doesn't seem to stick into the dc's minds when asked, "What's the capital of Canada?" They answer anything from Ontario, Quebec, Montreal. :banghead: Ask them what the capital of the US is and they all shout, "Washington, D.C.!!!" I really don't understand these children of mine. :leaving: 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalAnne Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 We live in the capital city of our country, and yet it doesn't seem to stick into the dc's minds when asked, "What's the capital of Canada?" They answer anything from Ontario, Quebec, Montreal. :banghead: Ask them what the capital of the US is and they all shout, "Washington, D.C.!!!" I really don't understand these children of mine. :leaving: Wait, are people supposed to remember what the capital of Canada is? ;) Just kidding! 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Wait, are people supposed to remember what the capital of Canada is? ;) Just kidding! Apparently it's not that memorable - even if you live there. :lol: 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Thanks to Renai for asking the question & Jean for answering. I have a kid who often picks the wrong phonogram to stick in the word, but I never would have thought 'or' could be pronounced at all like 'aw'. None of the alternatives that I guessed seemed to be an issue. Pon? Paun? Pan? Puzzled me, but I didn't want to admit I didn't have a clue. here in Aus or and aw can have the same sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 I, a Brit, have been asked how we celebrate Thanksgiving. I was so surprised that I lost my sark... We were in England for our honeymoon on July 4th and I made a comment to our B&B owner about wondering what would be going on to celebrate. She looked at me kind of funny and very gently replied "We don't really celebrate that here...." 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto4inSoCal Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Dd a few years ago asked me if any of the freeways went all the way to China... Apparently we missed the part where there is a big ocean between the US and China. I made sure to add in geography the following year. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Wait, are people supposed to remember what the capital of Canada is? It's Moose Factory! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 It's Moose Factory!Sure itt isn't Moose Jaw? Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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