This is a photo of my daughter's chemistry homework.   She told me that this is insanely easy and she doesn't understand how people don't understand it.   Ummm I took chemistry in high school and I know some of the chemical formulas, but I am clueless what this says below.

I know my daughter is very smart; she is in the top of her class.   Even though she is insanely book smart, she sometimes has problems with common sense type things.   This makes her younger brother laugh.   For example we had a lime sitting on the counter and Meg asks where did you get this green orange...really? 

Well let's go back to chemistry.   How do I not remember this at all?  Is it age, did the kids suck all my intelligence during the birthing process.     I sat in class each day and did these problems I am sure of it, but even as she explained it I was clueless.

Now I am sure it thrills my 16 year-old daughter that she feels smarter than her mom.    I let her feel that way, but explain that true knowledge is to know one's extent of their own ignorance.     She just said okay mom, but she will understand that one day.