Do you have a child with no common sense?

[Yardbird]

Ahh, she's 6, give her a break.

 

[momrek06]

Ahhh...another one here with a DH who is an Engineer. He is a graduate of Harvard University and he is my E-NERD...(aka engineering nerd). He has NO problem with me calling him an e-nerd....he actually is proud of it and smiles all the time when I say it.

But NO COMMON SENSE AT ALL...omg...many times I have found his keys in the DOOR of the car.... like he opened it to get something out and then came in the house but forgot the keys.... and can NEVER remember where he had them last....THEN THE SEARCH ...his brain is always working and I have to tell him to "shut it off" and relax BUT THESE OVER-ACHIEVERS CAN'T!!!
He never remembers to shut the burner off on the stove...."oh I forgot"...how can that happen. ...he cannot figure out how to properly work the house phone or his cell phone... ...I could go on forever....BUT I will tell you I have tons of common sense BUT there is NO WAY I have the BRAIN MATTER my DH has....his brain is overflowing...

 

[mamacatnv]

Ahhh...another one here with a DH who is an Engineer. He is a graduate of Harvard University and he is my E-NERD...(aka engineering nerd). He has NO problem with me calling him an e-nerd....he actually is proud of it and smiles all the time when I say it.

But NO COMMON SENSE AT ALL...omg...many times I have found his keys in the DOOR of the car.... like he opened it to get something out and then came in the house but forgot the keys.... and can NEVER remember where he had them last....THEN THE SEARCH ...his brain is always working and I have to tell him to "shut it off" and relax BUT THESE OVER-ACHIEVERS CAN'T!!!
He never remembers to shut the burner off on the stove...."oh I forgot"...how can that happen. ...he cannot figure out how to properly work the house phone or his cell phone... ...I could go on forever....BUT I will tell you I have tons of common sense BUT there is NO WAY I have the BRAIN MATTER my DH has....his brain is overflowing...

My DH is from NH, maybe they are separated twins
How many times has your DH lost/misplaced his wallet, work badge or cell phone????
My DH has been known to drive past our house

Every evening my bestfriend/neighbor and I sit on the front porch and catch up on our days. Many nights this doesn't start until after 9 when the little ones are in bed.

My DH is not a night person, he goes to bed early and gets up early. The other night I was on my way to the porch and said to him "don't lock me out" which he has done more than once. I come home a little while later and you guessed it the door is locked.

I go back to my neighbors and get my house key, no luck, duffus not only locked the door he flipped the flip locks! The locks we put on so the kids couln't get out the door when they were younger.

I rang the doorbell, called on the phone until my DS finally woke up and came and let me in. DH had no clue, he was snoring away.

He did this same thing to me and the kids one night, we had to climb over our fence and beat on the bedroom window to get him to wake up and let us in

I am so glad to learn I don't have the only duffus on the planet!

 

[HappyLawyer]

oh yeah, lacking some in this house for sure, i could post but we leave in 5 weeks and it is not enough time.

 

[Daisy Chick]

I don't have a child with no common sense...I've got four of 'em.

 

[momrek06]

My DH is from NH, maybe they are separated twins
How many times has your DH lost/misplaced his wallet, work badge or cell phone????
My DH has been known to drive past our house

Every evening my bestfriend/neighbor and I sit on the front porch and catch up on our days. Many nights this doesn't start until after 9 when the little ones are in bed.

My DH is not a night person, he goes to bed early and gets up early. The other night I was on my way to the porch and said to him "don't lock me out" which he has done more than once. I come home a little while later and you guessed it the door is locked.

I go back to my neighbors and get my house key, no luck, duffus not only locked the door he flipped the flip locks! The locks we put on so the kids couln't get out the door when they were younger.

I rang the doorbell, called on the phone until my DS finally woke up and came and let me in. DH had no clue, he was snoring away.

He did this same thing to me and the kids one night, we had to climb over our fence and beat on the bedroom window to get him to wake up and let us in

I am so glad to learn I don't have the only duffus on the planet!

OMG...this is too funny...YUP, I am going to guess they were definitely separated at birth..... ..... !!!!

YUP and he (as I said) loses EVERYTHING...or as he says..."misplaces" (yeah, right )......"DH, I do not lose my things like you do"!!!!

And that is too about him locking up the house.....OMG..... !!!

They just do not get it at all. You can tell them, call them on the phone, send them an email, send them a fax.....and all I get is...."HUH"!!!! HUH....HUH....come on!

My two DS' are evenly book-smart with common sense...so thankfully I only have ONE (DH) walking around like a DUFFUS!!!!

 

[Makdyn]

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my neice is 11 years old and she's a very smart kid she's done well in school.....up until now. she doesn't hand in homework assignments, she's been caught smoking, stealing, she's gotten into a fist fight and she's gotten kicked out of a classroom because she kept arguing with the teacher(and those last 2 things happened within a week of eachother).

My cousin who is also really smart but no common sense, got into some really big type of trouble with the law just last month. and he can not see what he did was wrong. I am sure he knew it was wrong but to connect the two I don't think he can yet.

To the op who has her DH forgetting the keys in the car door, Does he ever leave the door open. DD has done this some many times. she will get out of the car and just go into the house. When I realize that she forgot to close the door, I will be ask her to look out the window at the car do you see anything different?
she said no.
Me:What about the door that is open?
dd :Yeah I see that
Me: Don't you think that it should be closed
dd: I guess so
Me: then I guess you should go close it
dd: Why?
Me:

 

[amyup]

Yep we have a 6 year old space cadet too. Sometimes its so frustrating, like when we are almost all the way home from school and he then tells me he forgot.... My DH and I talk about if it would be easier to have a kid that is "average or a little below" in school but has common sense because it drives me crazy.

Oh and the peach comment cracks me up! Totally my brother, he's 26 now and still hasn't grown out of the random comments phase.

 

[scraptoons]

Mother was a 5th grade teacher. She would mention super smart students like this.

She said they could ace anything academic, but she couldn't rely on them to run an errand for her. They would get lost on the way to the library!!

So she always picked the not so smart, but dependable kids to help her out with stuff.

 

[Robinrs]

My son has more common sense than BOTH of his parents! Thank GOD for that!

As for his Dad, no book knowledge or common sense. Just great taste in Women!

 

[debden]

My mother has no common sense what-so-ever.I left her to make a stew for a family get together.It was going in the crock pot for 8 hours and instead of chopping everything into bite size peices she left the chicken,potatoes and tomatoes in big huge chunks and wondered why it wasn't done after so long.
Ugh.
And this is only one example of the many things she just does not have the common sense to comprehend.
Debbie

 

[Tazicket]

My Mom used to fuss at me all the time for my lack of common sense! I remember one morning I made oatmeal in the microwave. It had been in there for about 3 minutes. I went to take the bowl out, so I could eat my breakfast...and grabbed the bowl with my bare hands. Needless to say, I didn't get my oatmeal and we had one less bowl. I'm sure there's other things I did that were doofy, but that's what's coming to mind at the moment.

 

[PaulaSue]

LMAO, OP my oldest DD is just like this. We call her moments "blond".

 

[HelenePA]

my friend college graduate, did NOT know the mood didn't shine til she was almost 30... this same woman is trying to make a new drug to cure cancer.

 

[suzannen]

This is my oldest DD also. High marks all through school and college and now works for a major financial firm in NYC with a very high salary, so she has some great accomplishments. But in the past 2 weeks alone, she 1) called to ask me "how long does it take to boil water?" 2) booked the wrong month online for a flight; 3) then showed up for said flight at the airport without any photo id because she left it at her gym. Love her dearly, but don't understand it at all.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

HAY!!!! I am an engineer and I have tons of common sense. BTW most people who don't know I am an engineer will argue with me that I am not an engineer because I am not like them.

I will have to agree! I am an engineer with a lot of common sense. Ok, sometimes I have a blonde moment, but those are few and far between. I do have to admit though, most engineers could compete with Einstein, but given the chance, they couldn't find their way out of an open paper bag.

About the random comments, that is SO DBF. He (also an engineer) has common sense. But he will make completely random comments in the middle of a conversation. Most of the time I ignore them, but sometimes I feel compelled to ask about it. Usually his answer is "I don't know, I just felt like saying it."

 

[taximomfor4]

My kids certainly go through space-cadet moments too! I think the stereo-type that the book-smartest kids are the most common-sense-impaired can be pretty harmful though. I was very very academically gifted in school, yet was by a mile the most dependable kid I knew. My oldest dd is profoundly gifted (IQ), yet is very dependable and has a healthy dose of common sense...and she has been disappointed over and over that teachers would exclude her from many teacher-helper tasks. All they let her do was "teach" struggling students.

I realize I have drifted from the true spirit of this thread, but a poster above mentioned that teacher who only assigns errands to the not-smartest kids. That is, especially for a teacher, a potentially harmful attitude. Kids can develop common sense if they are allowed to try sometimes.

So in the true spirit of this thread, here is my contribution: My son, 6yo and usually the most proactive, full-of-common-sense kid in MY house, will dress for school in shorts on a 40 degree F day. I ask why he chose shorts. His answer: "All the pants left in my drawer are floods."

....................ummm, and shorts are LONGER???

 

[ChrizJen]

I think I'm still like that - do you know I had to read this 3 times to understand what was wrong with the Barbie story!

WHEW!!! Ditto! I thought it was just me! I was afraid to post because I really did have to re-read it like 3 times!

 

[babytrees]

We have a household of common sense impaired kids and dad (and grandparents too).

My husband is brilliant but has ADD so that seems to affect his common sense a bit...but really how hard is it to find your glasses right after you take them off???

Both of my girls are brainiacs....but bless my oldest's little head...she can't seem to remember to turn in her homework. She also has the warmest locker in the school...why?? you ask...because she has left all of her sweaters and coats in the locker.
Youngest just cracks me up....one of their chores is to set the dinner table. Often I will call down to them...come up and set the table for dinner..."Why?" So we don't eat out of the pots!!

Thankfully I have the brains and the common sense or our family would be an odd sight.

 

[mamacatnv]

So in the true spirit of this thread, here is my contribution: My son, 6yo and usually the most proactive, full-of-common-sense kid in MY house, will dress for school in shorts on a 40 degree F day. I ask why he chose shorts. His answer: "All the pants left in my drawer are floods."

....................ummm, and shorts are LONGER???

Not only does he have common sense, it is obvious he also has fashion sense!