'I know'

Hello Sandhya! Very interesting discussion !!!. I have also heard these pet words 'I know everything' from many .......kids and grown up both. When we try to explain something to our daughter, she would say - "Don't tell me, I know it very well". I know that she cannot know as much as we know, therefore, first I scratch my head hearing this answer than with due patience tell her again - "Look! we are more experienced than you and there is no substitute for experience, so please listen to us carefully" Your discussion reminds me of one of my colleagues in office, who would invariably say 'I know'. When I would start telling him about any information either officially or otherwise, before I could complete my statement, he would invariably say - "I know it" making me feel like a foolish person. I would get angry hearing this. However, he was senior to me, therefore, I used to keep quite. One day I discussed this problem with one of my other colleagues, who was very wise, mature and sane. He told me - 'Look! Deepak - you need not take it seriously, it is his takiyakalam [which if loosly translated in English would mean - 'a common expression that a particular person habitually uses after saying something else']. My other colleague would further add that about him that he (who used to say 'I know') did not know many things but he would claim that he knew everything..

I have heard kids say this over and over before. I used to when I was little. I think its just their way of trying to stop adults from being over-patronising. They want to be percieved to have the kind of knowledge that adults have, and even though they are kids, they dont want to be treated as such. Because an adult knows something and they dont, they dont want to seem silly, so they will say "I knowwwwww" because they hope it will convince the adult that they are not stupid. Thats what I think anyway.

I think that curiosity is a thing you either have or you don't. It seems that sense of wonder has been killed in kids . Between Having to do this or go do that, kids are more busier than ever. There is no time to Just sit and wonder about things , to be curious.Instead they play video games , text risque photos and gossip on facebook.

I think it is just a saying that they don't think about. Like when they meet someone and ask "How are you?" but nobody waits for an answer because basically they do not care. They say it without thinking.

Hi SV, I think the kids are smart and think that they know everything. If I say something to my son, he will ask, how do you know? Many times I am getting irritating with this question? He too have the habit of saying, I know.. Sometimes with his lessons, I know all… but I won’t leave him, because I know what he knows (lol). If he is watching TV then he won’t listen even what I am asking but give a ready made answer.. then I have to switch off the tv to make him to listen properly.

Yes is true, in children is lack of interest, and in adults, is lack of humility, =) Blessings!... Dainy

I always look at knowledge that there is so much no-one knows it all...its just that different people know about different parts of it, I guess it all depends on what interests one the most...

my grand daughter tells us I know how to do it. and it will be something she learned in school and has to do withthe homework hat she brings home! I have seen it more in grown ups that think they know everything! and they dont. the ones that act that way are just bragarts and when ya prove to them they dont nkow they get upset lolol I do love to prove them wrong! GUess I am not around that many kids know so I havent seen this in them

Thanks to the internet, people and kids who want to learn, know a lot more today than those of 10 years ago. Even if you were using Wikipedia alone, you would find most answers to your questions. So maybe they know more than you think. 16 year old are pretty smart these days.