At what age did your child learn to tell time and count money?? I never really taught my kids they just learned on their own.. BUT my youngest has yet to learn either and is begging to be taught.. It IS on the agenda for this year.. I'm just curious... NONE of the kids at the Boys and Girls club where I work can tell time on a regular clock.. I do NOT get that..
Used to be that kids knew they were "a big kid" when they could tie shoes, use the phone, tell time, and ride a bike without training wheels. Now there's velcro shoes, digital clocks, and phones so sophisticated we have to get THEM to teach US! And "nobody" rides a bike anymore! My DGS learned in first grade. He's great with money! He can count it, but he needs "guidance" when it comes to spending it! He still has a little trouble on the "up" side of the hour, but we gave him a watch for his 7th birthday because he had learned to tell time. I can remember learning time in second grade, age 6/7. I was 9 before I could tie shoes, though. So I taught my daughter to tie hers when she was 3. Then she went to nursery school and taught a little boy to tie his. Then she made him tie hers! (Her mama didn't raise no fool!) :lol:
My 8yo is just now starting to understand an analog clock. He's still not 100%, though. Money... man... money, he's a pro. But that's just because he's really into it. lol.
These kids have been raised on digital everything. At PS, if there's a clock in the room, it's meaningless; time is told by bells. At home, (often) time is told by tv shows. When X comes on, it's 8 o'clock, when Y comes on, it's time to go to bed, etc. Or else someone who CAN tell time informs everybody when it's time to do stuff. My dil can't read an analog clock. She can look at a digital clock and know that it's 8:45, but she has no clue what "quarter to 9" is. She's almost 30. Sad, huh?
Dd8 and ds7 learned money this past year. We did it everyday with our calendar-just counted coins equal to which day of school we were on. They got really good at counting different combinations. We haven't done much on time. We worked mostly on hour and half hour this year because those are also the fractions that we worked on. Next year, dd8 will work on 1/4, so we will also work on quarter hour and then on from there. Lindina, I have two kids at my house that LOVE to ride their bikes and two who have no interest at all in learning to ride. I've tried to teach them a few times, but they don't want to.
My kids learned money in preschool. I pay cash for things, and every time we went to the store (if no one was behind me in line!), I would either give Phillip my change and help him count out the exact amount, or (if I didn't have any) tell him, "We need to make sure the cashier gave us the right amount. You count it to see if she's right...."
I know it wasn't supposed to be, but this topic is a little humorous to me. As a new homeschool mom, I worry, worry, worry about my kids keeping up with the standard. The public schools, especially high schools are so anxious to make advanced students. Our local community college has high school students ON their campus now. Personally, I don't understand that, but good for them if they can do it. I think that is more the image we are forced to digest as a society -- bigger, smarter, faster, and sooner. But then the reality is the majority of the kids are absolutely left behind in the basics of life. Regardless of whether these skills will be necessary in the future, I would think that knowing how time works is more essential than just being able to read numbers on a clock. I guess I'm old fashioned. I don't suppose age matters as long as when they understand it, they really understand it. So, basically I laughed a little to myself at the thought that I worry so much that my kids will be behind because I don't push them so hard academically, yet when they get to be my age it's very possible they might be the only ones around with any knowledge of the elementary skills that will benefit them most of all.
2girls1crazymom, I had a friend who went to school with me in the 70's who took a class at Ohio State his Junior and Senior year, because the class (Russian) wasn't offered at the high school. My daughter took several college classes last year, and it was an AWESOME experience for her! Plus it got a year of college out of the way free. But it isn't something for ALL kids...I can't see my 16yo doing that, not this year OR next. We really do need to stop worrying about if our kids will be up to snuff. YES, THEY WILL, unless you just sit around all day long, watching soaps/talk shows and eating bon-bons, while your kids run wild !
:shock: They did that in the 70's?! I had no idea! I don't remember anyone in my high school doing it in the mid 90's. Or maybe I just didn't know the smart kids. :lol: Yeah, I didn't mean to bash people who do it. I do think it's great if they are able and want to. I just can't imagine having done it. Me -- on a college campus -- at 16 ------- bad, bad things would have happened!
My oldest was a pre-k student when I taught him about time and money (he did everything early). My younger kids were kindergarteners when I taught them. I truely believe that a good foundation at an early age is essential.
We did time and money during 1st grade math this past year but my oldest has been telling time for a couple of years now. He can tell time on both kinds of clocks. But he can't tie a shoe yet. He can ride a bike but he couldn't work a fancy phone. I guess I'm a simple down home kinda teacher. He'll learn to tie a shoe eventually. Maybe. :lol:
We learned telling time to 5 mins in the first grade and second learns to tell to the min the first semester. We also learned to count change in first and learning bills in second. So I would say generally age 6 to 8 is when we are learning.
My 5 year old has no concept of either, but he's very into letters and learning to read so we're focusing on that. He's constantly sounding out words he hears trying to figure out what letters are in them, it's his new hobby! LOL My 8 year old knew how to count money really well by the end of Kindergarten. He had a firm grasp of an analog clock at the end of 1st grade.
