“8-6-7-5-3-0-9…”
That’s what both our boys told people our home number was for oh, only about SIX MONTHS! They heard their 80′s parents sing the “Jenny” song once and it stuck, stronger than any super glue ever made! Can you stand it?!?! Which is more shocking…that Dave and I are singing a song from 1982 in (then) 2008 OR that our kids had no idea their home phone number!?!
In all seriousness, THANK GOD, they were never lost from us and needed to tell someone their actual home number!
With a prayer and the help of the Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star diddy, they both now know their home digits. Phew!
Jake needs to learn our home address for school (and how about for his all around safety too!). Cal is an eager beaver to learn whatever Jake is, because he’s a big man stuffed into a little boy’s body! I tormented myself HOW can I do this in a fun, non-drill-sergeant way?
And then I remembered a trick my fun, red-headed sis, Charlie, did while my nephews learned their multiplication tables. (Don’t dare tell her how smart she is, because this baby of four HATES it when her three older sisters are right. Maybe, because it’s happens a lot more than not!)
Use dry erase (not permanent!) markers on the boys bathroom mirror! Two times a day we go over their teeth with a brush and their home address in a snap. It’s actually been fun for all of us! (Which is not always the case with homework here at the Fink home!)
Currently, we have two very important nuggets on their mirror, our home address and Proverbs 17:17, “A friend loves at all times”. As we’re navigating through relationally and geographic struggles and both are vitally important for their safety and survival!
You can’t really see the letters well here but HOLY COW what is that filmy streak on their mirror? That’s it, I fired the maid because I can’t accept this substandard cleaning. Know what she said? That she quit almost seven years ago! 
What’s a good nugget you can share about teaching your kiddos the good stuff?
