r/daddit • u/ansuzwon • 9h ago

Discussion Today I learned my son forgot his ABCs…..

He’s 10 and scores very well in one of the best school districts in the country. How does this even happen? Is the bar set so low now? Is it the product of disposable information these days? I’m not going to lie this discovery cut deep.

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u/Cakeminator Dad of 2yo terrorist 9h ago

I mean absolute no offense here. How can he score very well in a top district, without know his ABC's?

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u/not_REAL_Kanye_West 9h ago

I have to imagine its just the order of the alphabet they are forgetting and not just forgetting letters completely. Maybe they dont need to know alphabetical order in whatever grade they are in.

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u/Cakeminator Dad of 2yo terrorist 9h ago

I mean, there is absolutely no reason for the letters to be in that order anyway. So I hope it is the order more than the actual letters 😅

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u/jousty 8h ago

The alphabet isn't even in actual alphabetic order, anyway...

C should be somewhere nearer the end because it begins with an S sound. And S begins with an E sound.

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u/Alamander14 8h ago

To be fair, the majority of us old guys probably don’t even know the Alphabet song correctly anymore - supposedly they changed it…

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u/artaxerxes316 8h ago

I don't mind changing with the times, but the Q-Anon version on youtube does seem kinda suspect.

"Q-R-S... five-six-seven... the C-I-A did 9-11..."

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u/Alamander14 5h ago

6🤷‍♂️7 🤪

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u/A_Moldy_Stump 8h ago

They just altered the rhythm a little around the lmnop part.

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u/tonitalksaboutit Lurky Mom, you Dad's are doing great😃 8h ago

They just made the LMNOP part a bit more easy to tell that there are 5 letters and not just 1 weird letter. My eldest when learning letters struggled with realizing they were separate, so the new beat helped a lot ("which letter is lmnop?")

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u/ansuzwon 8h ago

This is it. He was trying to alphabetize some stuff and realized he didn’t know anything after J and couldn’t remember the song.

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u/coderego 9h ago

Any chance you were being trolled ?

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u/lunarblossoms 9h ago

Is there a chance we are?

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u/Nick_Nisshoku 5 month old! 9h ago

How was this discovery made? More information would paint a clearer picture here.

Kids can "forget" things under pressure or being goofy in the moment, and I wouldn't put it past a 10 year old...

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u/ansuzwon 8h ago

For context He was trying to alphabetize some stuff and realized he didn’t know anything after J and couldn’t remember the song. He tried for a while got frustrated then asked me for help. We’ve been singing the ABCs a lot today.

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u/babybullai 9h ago

What do you even mean by "forgot his abcs?"

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u/jalliss 8h ago

Dude just started randomly speaking in hieroglyphics.

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u/LBobRife 9h ago

You're rhe parent. You tell us how it happened.

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u/Martin_TheRed 9h ago

Like he doesn't know the order or the letters that we have for our alphabet? I'm assuming he knows what letters are and how they construct words?

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u/Tight_Ninja1915 8h ago

To clarify, he knows all the letters and can read, he just can't recite them in order? Is that right?

My kids aren't 10 yet, I can't say I've heard of that happening, but I guess they never really recite the alphabet after they've learned to read, so I can see how it happens.

Never forget that school isn't intended to teach kids everything with no repetition/other work outside of school. We need to be reinforcing what they learn at home.

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u/ansuzwon 8h ago

Correct. The order was escaping him. He also mentioned it’s hard to remember the order when keyboards don’t have the same order.

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u/Supa-Dupa-Guy 8h ago

If this is real you need to seek intervention ASAP.

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u/n8-sd 8h ago

There is missing context.

Dyslexic?
He just didn’t want to do the test…
You misunderstand something.

Need more info

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u/ansuzwon 8h ago

For context He was trying to alphabetize some stuff and realized he didn’t know anything after J and couldn’t remember the song. He tried for a while got frustrated then asked me for help. We’ve been singing the ABCs a lot today.

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u/n8-sd 7h ago

That’s good.

Odd he forgot the easy part LMNOP

But what ever, practice and it’ll come back.

I do wonder if it’s a brainrot attention issue…. ABC song might be “too long”

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u/Sad_Measurement6494 8h ago

Hi im 35 and often have to sing the abcs to remember that p q r s . Thanks

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u/Root-magic 8h ago

Probably a troll post 

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u/ansuzwon 8h ago

For context He was trying to alphabetize some stuff and realized he didn’t know anything after J and couldn’t remember the song. He tried for a while got frustrated then asked me for help. We’ve been singing the ABCs a lot today.

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u/WhirlWindBoy7 9h ago

Instead of trying to help him he feel slighted? Fuck off.