We don’t know about you, but nothing makes us feel dumber than trying to help our kids with their homework. Somehow, we have made it all the way to adulthood and are responsible for raising these kids, having jobs, and paying bills and taxes, but they hit us with a simple worksheet, and it’s like we know nothing. Thankfully, it’s not just us.
A mom named Roxanne Campeau, who posts on TikTok as @mstylesofficia3, shared a video of a homework sheet her third grader brought home that she helped him with. Sadly for him, mom’s math wasn’t mathing, and he got them all incorrect. Her hilarious video brought lots of parents together who struggle just as hard with their kids’ homework.
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The mom just wanted to help.
Campeau, a mom of two from Canada, takes pride in working with her kids on their assignments, she told Newsweek. “I love helping my sons with their homework. I take it very seriously and it gives me a gratifying feeling as a mom to know that I can help them,” she explained.
But she was a bit worried when he came home with this particular assignment. “It was math homework so already I was doomed because math is the one subject I struggled with in my youth,” she said.
Campeau thought she knew what to do.
The worksheet asked her to “write how many hundreds, tens, and units there are in each number.” She and Jax worked together to come up with the answers, and she thought they had them all correct. But when he brought home the worksheet, the pair had, in fact, come up with all incorrect answers.
She wrote in a text on the video they came up with “zero good answers.”
Once the teacher explained it, she felt even worse.
She told Newsweek that when she saw the paper, it made her feel terrible. “Now that I see the homework corrected, I feel completely stupid and ashamed because I actually thought that it was a pretty easy exercise,” she shared.
Thankfully, Jax didn’t seem to care. She posted the video on TikTok because, “I thought it was funny even though I take it very seriously,” Campeau admitted.
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TikTokers felt her pain.
Plenty of moms and dads out there struggle with homework, and they loved her video. Like this person who wrote, “Back in my days’ tens’ meant the actual tens in the number so at 893 its 9 tens … ive never seen it in the way the teacher wants even tho it makes sense obviously.”
One person used to be a math whiz, but not anymore, commenting, “i was great in math in high school… trigonometry in 10th gr… but when my kids werr younger in elementary school back in the early 2000s I couldnt figure out how to help them as they changed it.”
We are with this guy. “I would’ve gotten that wrong too. Thanks for taking the hit for us. #NowIKnow,” he wrote.
When they tell you kids don’t come with a manual, this is what they mean. Who knew we’d have to start brushing up on addition and subtraction while they’re infants?!?
