At what age did your child learn their phone number?

lala5507 · February 2014

I just signed dd up for her kindergarten registration day. The women was just reviewing the information I had given her and she said "ok, is this the phone number she will know when they ask her?" I was just kind of taken aback. She doesn't know our phone number. DD knows her address and birthday and we are working on 911. Are they really going to hold it against her if she doesn't know her phone number at kindergarten assessment?

Luckystar2 · February 2014

Dd doesn't know ours. This is the only problem I find with not having a landline. I guess we could teach her just one of our numbers. But my cell phone is the best to reach (can't always reach dh during work), but my area code is out of state. So she'd have to learn the whole # including area code. Dh's we could just teach her without area code.

Anyways that's all to say we really haven't taught her. Nobody has asked honestly. We really haven't worked on our address but I guess we really should. I really don't think she's going to be good at remembering either. So if anybody has tips on that that would be nice!

egpitt22 · February 2014

No one has asked about this for Jake yet, but this prompted me to realize that maybe I should teach him my cell number! We do have a landline, but it's pretty much useless as I don't answer the phone unless it's one of our moms, my BFF, or Brian. No one else has the number, so if it's not one of those people, it's a telemarketer.

amyjoy18 · February 2014

DD doesn't know ours either.

When is your kindergarten assessment? I don't think that they'll hold it against her, but it is probably something they'd want her to know when she enters Kindergarten for safety reasons.

So I guess we better get on the ball as well.

lala5507 · February 2014

amyjoy18 said:

DD doesn't know ours either.

When is your kindergarten assessment? I don't think that they'll hold it against her, but it is probably something they'd want her to know when she enters Kindergarten for safety reasons.

So I guess we better get on the ball as well.

April 3rd

( I am not ready for this!

amyjoy18 · February 2014

lala5507 said:

amyjoy18 said:

DD doesn't know ours either.

When is your kindergarten assessment? I don't think that they'll hold it against her, but it is probably something they'd want her to know when she enters Kindergarten for safety reasons.

So I guess we better get on the ball as well.
April 3rd
( I am not ready for this!

Wow! We had to register in January, but have gotten zero communication since then. And I know there is more coming because the registration form was literally less than 10 questions including name and address.

MrsAmers · February 2014

H learned it somewhere during Kindergarten. She keeps a notebook in her backpack, so I wrote both of our cell phone numbers in there because I thought that asking her to learn both of our cell numbers as well and keeping them straight was a bit much.

We have our home voicemail set up to notify us on our cell phones if a message is left, so if someone from school called and left a message we would know soon after.

lala5507 · February 2014

Ok, I feel better now. I thought I forgot to teach her something that everybody else already knew. I will start working on it but I'm not going to panic if she doesn't know it by April. Dd is extremely shy around adults she doesn't know. I will just be happy if she opens her mouth and speaks to these people let alone recites our phone number.

Luckystar2 · February 2014

Dd's k assessment was after the first week or so of K. I don't remember the teacher saying anything about phone #. Dd definitely wouldn't have known it and we didnt get yelled at about it! So wasn't a big deal if they did ask.

For safety reasons its probably a good idea. But I think it's a lot different than back when we were kids. If she got lost and told somebody her name you can easily google our names and get our address and where we work, etc. we have a very unique last name so that at least works in our favor.

I think we should work on teaching it but I definitely think its something she will struggle with. But per pp putting it in her backpack would be a good idea.

4EvR&4AlWz · February 2014

B learned my phone number and our address (house number, street and city/state, no zip code) this past summer so 3.5. I wanted her to know it for Idkewild, zoo, etc. She just learned DHs number at 4 this fall.

BethieB · February 2014

DD is currently learning this in kindergarten, along with her birthdate, full address and how to tie shoes. I think expecting them to know it prior (without you drilling it into their head all the time) would be expecting too much!

lishie · February 2014

Knowing phone number was on Jackson's mid year assessment, as well as address and birthday. He knew both of those, but we've never taught him our phone number. Doing that had never crossed my mind, but I can see the reasoning behind it. I recently added this to our to-do list.

AmandaJLewis · February 2014

EJ doesn't know ours. I never knew which to teach her. Cause between the land line and our cell numbers... that is a lot of numbers. And if she was lost from us, and we are not home our land line won't be of much help. She has not been assessed in school about knowing it though. she does know our address. And she does know how to use the home phone and all about 911.

MandyMilller · February 2014

Our did ask that during assessment. Lanna learned it in preschool. She's good with numbers though. She knows our home number, and cell numbers for me, her dad and both of her grandparents.

lala5507 · February 2014

MandyMilller said:

Our did ask that during assessment. Lanna learned it in preschool. She's good with numbers though. She knows our home number, and cell numbers for me, her dad and both of her grandparents.

wow, my husband can't even recite our home number. :P

MandyMilller · February 2014

I couldn't either till I had to teach it to Lanna! Even now, the only way I remember it is to silently sing it to the tune of jingle bells!

MrsYam · February 2014

My 5 year old doesn't know our cell phone #'s. We don't have a landline. She does know her new address though. I suppose I should probably teach her that sometime. She starts K in the fall.

valkaz · February 2014

DD knows our address and my cell phone number. It was something she learned in preschool before she started kindergarten. (They practiced during school.)

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