Does your child know their address?

[8disneyfans]

We homeschool and DD(7) knows our phone number but since she gives it out to every new bestfriend she meets I am afraid to teach her our address Who knows who will show up at our house!!!

Seriously though, we are getting ready to move so I will teach it to her when we get to the new house.

 

[Binnie]

DD3 has known our address (sans zip) for a year or more. Whenever we try to talk phone numbers, she tells me that her phone number is 12345678910. It's pretty funny.

 

[SmallWorld71]

My son's Jr. Kindergarten teacher had an effective method for teaching the kids all of their vital information. When they first entered the room, the kids had to find their assigned seat at the tables by looking for their first names. Their names marked their spots for the first couple of months. After that, she changed the seating chart and put their last names on their places. Again, their last names were their place markers for a while. Then she moved on to their phone numbers. They helped each child find their place and left the phone number taped to the tables for a while. The kids would look at their numbers each time they sat at their tables. They moved on to using their addresses and parent's names later in the year. By the end of the year, every child could spell their first and last names, knew their address and phone numbers and parent's names. I thought it was a great way to teach them.

What a great idea!

While I know there are exceptions to every rule, (kids who've just moved, special needs etc...) the vast majority of kids should know this info. by the end of K. Most pre-K and K teachers work on this in school but really, IMHO this is the parents' responsibility.

 

[currend]

Speaking as a Kindergarten teacher, it is part of our curriculum. But I started even earlier with my own 2 children.

 

[RF536]

Another thought since this has also turned to included phone numbers, don't forget to show your kids how to work the different phones in your house and your cell phones. I know that almost every phone in our house is different, and only one is the wired kind that you just pick up and talk without having to push a button. Then both mine and DH's cell phones are both different. You really want your kids to be comfortable with the phones, so that in an emergency situation they don't have to think about how to use it, that is why we let our kids call the grandparents and aunts and uncles when they have news to tell so that they get used to dialing the different phones.

 

[NJtoATL]

I am not surprised at all. I teach Kindergarten in low income area. What I find is that children don't know their own names or their parents name. They are so use to being referred to by their nicknames that they are unaware that they have a legal name.

Also, I find children move a lot in my district. Who wants to learn 3 or 4 addresses in a single school year.

 

[mjantz]

One thing I would add to make sure your kids know is the names of people in their lives like grandparents and aunts & uncles. My mom works at a school in a rural area & needed to call a kids grandparent so she asked the kid his grandmothers name (she was going to look it up in the phone book). The kid said 'Nana'. My mom called after school & quizzed the kids on their grandparents names!

 

[tinkerlisa]

At my son's school it was actually part of the requirement to pass Kindergarten!
I am actually shocked that second graders do not know their address. We worked with my son for a while to get him to learn it(before kindergarten). I think its good that schools focus on this subject but it really is the parents that need to address this with their children.

 

[njphv]

My DS6 learned in Pre-school, but had to know it this marking period as part of the ciric. in Kindergarten.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Yes, they had to learn it in preschool.