Dad tried to solve his son's kindergarten homework but 'gave up' after one peculiar question

No matter how much you prepare for parenthood, you can never be completely equipped to solve every problem that kids can throw your way. A confused dad recently took to Reddit after he went through his son's impossible homework. The dad, known on Reddit as u/QuitoBurrito took to the platform to share a picture of the homework sheet that asked students to add one letter to finish each of the words listed. All came with a clue: an illustration showing the completed word in action.

What baffled him was the last illustration that showed a girl with arms struck out, alongside the incomplete word "fa_" The parent spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out what the word would be. Speaking to Newsweek, he said, "My wife was going over it with our son and she texted me asking what the word could be. I was completely stumped. 'Far' was the only thing I could think of. My wife just said 'It better not be fat.'"

The father went around asking everybody in his office and nobody could actually figure out what the answer to that question was. "I posted it to a chat I have with my cousins and they couldn't guess it," he said. Finally, he turned to Reddit to post the photo alongside a caption that read, "We gave up." People in the comment section poured all kinds of answers which ranged from being hilarious to downright witty. "It's a jab, the f is a drunk j with a belt," wrote u/sylvaim. "I asked my 7-year-old son. He said it's FAR," wrote u/Mang_J0se. "Ohhhhh so it was supposed to be jab 😅. And kindergartners are familiar with the term jab? To be frank, I’m not even clear on the nuance of that word," added u/waterbe7.

Speaking with Newsweek, the dad expressed his mild anger towards the teacher who failed to check the mistake in the homework sheet before it was assigned to the kids. "I asked his teacher the next morning when I dropped him off and she said she didn't know and just failed to look over the whole worksheet before printing and handing it out," he said.

This is not the first time that a father has been taken aback after going through their kid's homework. In another story, another dad (who goes by u/Thin_Butterscotch827 on Reddit) shared his son's puzzling literature homework. "My son's 1st grade homework has stumped me entirely. 8/10 solved, I think?" the dad wrote in the post. It was a fill-in-the-blanks spelling worksheet, with options such as fist, fast, puff, pass, hiss, mess, less, gas, mass, and class. "The snake will __ at you," to which the answer would perhaps be hiss. The second one was, "Let's clean up this __," which would be filled with "mess." The next one was, "Dad will __ the slow car." The answer was "pass." Gas would come with, "We need __ for the car." However, the sixth sentence, "What is the __ of a pen," can be quite confusing, especially for a first grader. The dad later realized that there was truly an error in the worksheet and that it was not him or his child who was at fault.