Today, I asked my daughter what time it was. She stared at the clock for several seconds before muttering, "I don't know". She's 14 years old and on the honour roll, and yet she can't tell the time on an analogue clock. FML
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Today, my daughter decided it'd be funny to change the time on my clock. My boss didn't think it was funny. FML
Today, my daughter was putting clothes in the drier when she yelled, "Mom!! The drier won't start!" I had to explain to her that the door needed to be shut. Her response, "Oh. I didn't know that mattered." She's 15. FML
Today, my daughter admitted that she sometimes forgets her own name upon waking. She’s 15. FML
Today, my second-grade daughter asked her teacher how much money she makes. FML
Today, I told my daughter that she wasn't allowed to eat in her room, so she sat at the table and glared at me for 10 minutes while she ate. She's 15. FML
Today, my daughter, who was born in late 2000, mentioned how amazing it is that she'll be alive during the year 3000. I asked her exactly how old she thinks she'll be by then. She said, "Thirty, duh." I've screwed up as a parent, so very badly. FML
Today, my daughter asked me how long she had to put her 2-minute noodles in the microwave for. FML
Today, my grandma walked into my room and asked if the thing lying on my nightstand was a computer. I said ''Grandma, that's a clock.'' After staring at me, confused for a few seconds, she then farted, and left my room. FML
Today, I submitted my big assignment to my teacher at 1:55pm. The deadline was 2pm. She rejected it, because her watch read a few minutes after 2pm, and she maintains that the time on her watch is the "real" time. FML
Today, I took my 16 year-old daughter to get a bank account, taking her birth certificate with us as requested. When the teller wrote her name down on a piece of paper, my daughter said, "How do you know my name?" The teller just looked at her and held up her birth certificate. I raised a nitwit. FML
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chipnchips 0
time to switch to digital clocks
krysxkatastrophe 14
I know college kids who can't read a regular clock. It scares me that these people are the future of this world.
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dash8ace 0
Analog* :)
elyoko11 0
Apparently it's not that uncommon. I'm 16, and the person who is top of my class can't read one either. How on earth can you not learn how?
rkp921 0
I can't tell time on an analogue clock too and I'm your daughters age.
GoArmy6624 7
I learned regular clocks in 2nd grade. I guess you don't get the same results from public schools as you do from private or religious affiliated schools. She can still learn, sit her down and have a block of instruction with her.
geeksaresexy 18
Out of interest, how old is 2nd grade? I don't remember when I learned to tell time, I remember being taught it but not how old I was. Did you learn to tell time on a digital clock before analogue or did you learn both in 2nd grade? I was taught analogue first which seems a little strange to me now!
PsychoticAsylum 26
I learned how to read analogue clocks in public school....Why does everyone think they're so bad?
geeksaresexy 18
In the UK a public school IS a private school! We have 'State' or 'Public', state schools funded by the state (obviously) and public are funded by tuition fees. I went to a state school and I got a better education than my partner who went to a public school. Two examples of this, he was taught order of operations incorrectly (they totally skipped exponents) and when I read him out the FML about peeing with a tampon in he asked how that was possible because he didn't know pee came from a different hole..
griffendorgirl 0
haha I'm like that too
kitkat1697 0
what do you expect from us?? we have digital clocks and cell phones. we dont need tgose things anymore. :)
trellz17 19
she probably just didn't want to tell you.
5Jenna5 0
im on the honour roll too, im 16 and i can't tell the time either :S
chosha_fml 27
Did you ever teach her to read an analogue clock? So many are digital now that she may never have needed to think about it before.
katiegurl19512 10
she was probably high