THAT

IS

AWESOME!!!

Upvote; I hope it wasn't fake.

Words fail me for the sheer greatness of that!!

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I don't usually like Leno stuff, but that was pretty damn funny.

I didn't mean the POLICE!

Aww so cute. Of course two people died when their emergency calls weren't answered but aww, isn't it priceless.

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That was great! But what four year olds have subtraction "homework"?

Poor kid-- he was just getting help in the best fashion he could. Props to the operator for being patient. Hope it was a slow night.

Dag? Notice you didn't really have to see or hear Leno?

LOL!

Surprised to see the operator didn't go postal on the kid. I guess they're probably used to this kind of thing, and don't mind playing along for a bit if there aren't any other calls.

"How old are you?"
"Four"
"FOUR?"

I was kind of surprised too. I dont think we started subtraction until first grade. Damn overachievers!

That sounded fake to me.

I would adopt that kid in an instant.

Very cute. Leno is always at his best when he doesn't have to write or deliver his material.

Sorry. I missed the upvote button. Don't hate me; I like cute children. But the answer was 8. Duh.

no, the answer was 1 you heard the kid! i mean hes doing takeaways at age 4, hes a genius!

Slow night at emergency dispatch. That's my theory. A real dispatcher would probably be like, 'k, gotta go.'

so next time he has a problem and needs the police, what's he gonna do?

lol if his mom gets back one day to find the TV is gone and he's hiding under his bed crying

knowing women, mom will be like "WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE???????"

Back in my day we called the operator casue it was less numbers to push

Awww, how precious and all that other crap that goes along with it.

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Totally fake, although I wish it weren't. Kids don't do subtraction at 4 years old. And if they do, they wouldn't be left alone by their parents to do it. And if they had the kind of parent who taught their kid to do subtraction at age 4, the parent wouldn't have told them to call somebody if they needed help with it.

I could count, add and subtract a bit ( simple things, like 4+5 and 19-1 ) and was grasping reading and writing when I was four. I did it alone most of the time, because I myself wanted to. I would watch TV shows and learned from that.. I also knew to call 911 if something bad happened or someone was hurt or needed help badly.

This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )

The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.


>> ^thepinky:
Totally fake, although I wish it weren't. Kids don't do subtraction at 4 years old. And if they do, they wouldn't be left alone by their parents to do it. And if they had the kind of parent who taught their kid to do subtraction at age 4, the parent wouldn't have told them to call somebody if they needed help with it.

1) If he's only 4, he's not going to have homework of any kind, let alone math homework. See this article on national age for children entering kindergarten. Thirty-nine states will not allow your child into kindergarten unless they turn five less than a month and a half into the school year. The likelihood of math homework when the teacher is still trying to teach some kids how to count is slim to none. The Flagstaff school district suggests you teach your child to count to ten before s/he starts kindergarten. And that's only a suggestion. To most parents, reading and writing come before math, because math is easier to learn. That's why you'll see kids struggling to write their name before they know what 4+5 is. They certainly wouldn't be working with two-digit numbers like 16.

2) Even if everyone in this particular class knew how to count before the school year started, the units in kindergarten (at least the ones in my school) didn't have math specific homework. The closest thing I can think of is when we went through the money unit, and we had to make change with what we had. I think we had worksheets with little cutouts of coins and we had to glue or tape on the page the combination that equaled X amount as homework.

3) The concept of subtraction is taught long, long after addition has been mastered. The concept of adding negative numbers, or "take-aways" is usually a difficult one for kids to grasp. No four-year-old, unless they are in an advanced after-school tutoring program or homeschooled, is going to be doing subtraction homework.

4) A cell phone number would've been relatively useless in this case, as there is obviously someone else in the house. The dispatcher says something about "listen to your mom," and the kid on the phone doesn't correct him. If you've ever babysat a four-year-old, you know they love to correct the slightest mistakes. If it wasn't his mother, I'm sure he would've let everyone know.

And there's no need to be condescending just because you disagree. No one's miserable for calling "fake" on a video. Jeez. Calm down.

>> ^karkarlee:
I could count, add and subtract a bit ( simple things, like 4+5 and 19-1 ) and was grasping reading and writing when I was four. I did it alone most of the time, because I myself wanted to. I would watch TV shows and learned from that.. I also knew to call 911 if something bad happened or someone was hurt or needed help badly.
This could just as likely be real. If it is, it's not the kid's fault that his parents didn't tell him their cellphone number as well. ( I knew my home phone by the time I was five. )
The child's mind doesn't work like an adult one, kk? Children and adults alike are diverse in all ways: height, hair color, race, development, intelligence, maturity, on and on. Stop sticking everything in a box, you're just making yourself miserable.

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