How Many Do You Remember

[Canary42]

A  bit of lighthearted fun. How many of these  personal developments do you actually remember learning ?

Learning to :-

1. Walk

2. Talk

3. Count

4. The alphabet

5. Read

6. Tie shoelaces

7. Tell the time

8. Wipe your bum

All these everyday activities everyone learns as part of growing up, but how many do you actually remember details of their happening.  Did you struggle to master them? I have very vague memories of my Gran teaching me as regards number 5, and competitive "how high can you go" sessions with my brother for number 3, but the others are a complete blank.

 But then details of later ones are easily remembered, like learning to drive.

And what other candidates are there for this list ?

[Barsel]

David @ 18.37 You have your own Groom of the Stool? 

Hope you pay him well.

Yes, of course, you can admire me from afar.

Don't let Naoni know or else she will make our lives hell.😡

 

[Tilly2]

I can't remember my beakthough moments of any of those things. I just know that I could do them all before I went to school. I had very supportive grandparents, aunties and parents and, being an only child, was given lots of attention.

[Hazlinny]

Early years memories seem a bit vague - I remember feeding hens and ducks outside the house area. Do remember standing at the wall first day at infant school howling as my Mum walked away - how bad she must have felt.  By then I guess I must have learned to do all of the above!  Do remember being taught how to ride my first little bicycle.

[Hazlinny]

18.56 Barsel/  Are you referring to the same David who had a dislike of going downstairs to the kitchen in the morning?  Can't remember why?

[bhg481]

ITA - the Initial Teaching Alphabet, was one of the great failures in education experiments. The idea was that a phonetic system would get children reading more easily and then they could switch to conventional spelling. Some of my nieces failed miserably with ITA; fortunately they had dropped it by the time our daughter got to school.

[Barsel]

Haz, yes you do remember why and so do I.😂

[nicebloke1]

@19.00 that home/family learning is whats missing now, thats why you have so many drop outs today. It could be a case of just cant be bothered or mum and Dad both work, hence little time.

[Barsel]

I remember learning to roller skate.

I would stand behind my 3-wheeler bike and push the bike forward holding onto the handlebars. 

[Barsel]

nicebloke, I can assure you not all families are like that.

Still trying to work out why you are called nicebloke.

Is it tongue-in-cheek?

[ToraToraTora]

Yeah I did ITA which is why my spelling isn't great even now.

[Tilly2]

One we've missed...writing.

 

[Barsel]

Tilly, I do find it strange why some of us can write very neatly and others write so badly, that only a doctor could decipher it. 

[nicebloke1]

Barsel I didnt say ALL families were like that, now did I. But there are many who couldnt care a dam how their children turn out.

[Barsel]

Nicebloke, you said,  //that home/family learning is whats missing now//

I replied / I can assure you not all families are like that/

Perhaps if you had worded it differently as in, 'In some homes' it woukd have sounded better.

 

[Arksided]

5. Read - Mum, Johnny and Jenifer Yellowhats...

6. Tie shoelaces - Mum, Dad and Grandma. I'd learn it but next time end up in knots.

7. Tell the time - Mum, A big white clock she took of the wall.
Well the clock seemed big at the Time... 😉

[nicebloke1]

19.51 your a nit picker Barsel, also sarcastic with your second remark regarding my AB name.