The trick all home-schooling parents have to look out for: 'Genius' boy, 5, 'scams' his mum into thinking he was doing his schoolwork with a VERY simple video con
- Laura Mazza, 33, from Melbourne, revealed how her five-year-old 'scammed' her
- Luca, 5, pretended that he was working by putting a photo up next to the iPad
- Instead, Laura's son was playing with toys and occasionally changing the snap
- The parenting blogger's post resonated with other parents online
A mother has revealed how she was 'scammed' by her five-year-old after he managed to trick her into thinking he was doing his school work in another room by using a photo of himself placed in front of his iPad.
Laura Mazza, 33, from Melbourne, said she had left her son Luca by himself to get on with his homework while she did her chores, but was later stunned when she realised he hadn't been working at all, but had instead been playing with his toys.
Posting on Facebook, Laura wrote that while she was working in her own home office, she put FaceTime on 'so if Luca had a question when unsupervised, he could ask'.
A mother has revealed how she was 'scammed' by her five-year-old after he managed to trick her into thinking he was doing his school work in another room (Laura Mazza pictured)
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Laura Mazza, 33, from Melbourne, said she had left her son Luca by himself to get on with his homework while she did her chores, but was later stunned when she realised he hadn't been working at all, but had instead been playing with his toys (Luca's photo next to the laptop)
'He was pretty quiet, but I could hear the lesson going on, so I didn't feel very worried,' she said.
'I wanted him to feel trusted... hahaha. Trust a five-year-old, good one Laura.'
After an hour or so, the mum-of-three said she picked up her phone to tell him he could 'have a break', upon which point she realised that her son was 'eerily still'.
'He had the same dork confused look on his face,' Laura said.
She laughed and asked her son whether he was frozen, and received no reply.
'I went upstairs and as I went up, I could hear his little voice, singing and playing. I looked in his room and there he was, playing gleefully with his toys like one of the Von Trapp children,' Laura said.
Instead, Luca had been changing photographs (pictured) at his iPad screen to make it look like he was listening to the lesson in question
Thinking the best of her son, Laura said she assumed Luca had heard the words 'break time' and speedily ran off straightaway to play with his toys.
'But I went over to his desk and saw a rather odd little setup that looked like two iPads mating,' she said.
'He had his sister's iPad propped up and situated perfectly in front of his iPad's camera lenses. On his sister's iPad was a picture of him sitting at the desk looking slightly amused.
'The little sh*t put a fake picture so it would look like he was sitting there! Listening!' she said.
Laura concluded: 'My son is way too clever. I've been scammed by a five-year-old' (Luca pictured)
Later on, the exasperated mum said she confronted her son about what he did, and he explained why he did it.
'He said: "Yeah, but I didn't just do one picture, I wanted to show you ALL my listening faces. You've got to admit, I'm pretty clever".'
Laura concluded; 'You are son, way too clever. Scammed by a five-year-old.'
Laura (pictured) is the mum to three young children: Luca, his sister Sofia and baby brother James
The post resonated with hundreds of other parents online, who said she 'definitely needs to watch that one'.
'I heard of a girl doing this for her class Zoom meeting she went to play with her cat or dog,' another mum wrote.
'And their grandparents wonder why we find parenting so much harder these days!'
Laura is the mum to three young children: Luca, his sister Sofia and baby brother James.
