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Parents:

 

Have you found that over time, you are just not as "sharp" as you used to be? After playing a "child's game" and losing, I am prompted to find out if this is a widespread problem. Watch the show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" (preferably with your child) and get back us on that.

Yes your right:P I can't see as well, hear as well, I am not quick enough... LOL. It's really funny and horrible:)

 I'm no where near being a parent, but I have experience from both sides. My brothers and I constantly out wit our parents, it's great fun. At the same time I work at an after school program with elementary school students who make me feel like I'm twice as old as I really am. It's a vicious cycle. :)

It has been very strange for me too. I have a seven year old sister who is about the right age to be a daughter. Sometimes I feel like a parent and child in the same family. It is especially bad when my girlfriend and I go out with her because she looks exactly like what would happen if we had a kid. When it comes to kid games, kids sometimes get really good at them. I had an aunt who brought her boyfriend from the Mensa club and he was VERY proud of his intelligence. I was about 15 at the time and I mopped the board with him on Stratego. It wasn't because I was necessarily smarter than him, I just had found better strategies from more experience. Still he looked quite deflated. Then again some kids are just REALLY smart. Sometimes I think it's good for us to have kids keeping us humble.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Can you re-phrase it, please, using only one-syllable words?

      I'm no parent, but I know what you all mean. It's really hard for me to get out of a string of classes (especially political science classes) and then confront my 7-year-old little sister's deep, probing questions and logical fallacies. It's not easy operating in two worlds, a university and the innocent, ignorant mind of a child, I have to constantly bite my tongue around my sister in order to avoid sounding like one of those lifeless political science textbooks I have to read. This makes me feel really old, and my inability to give her simple, childlike answers sometimes makes me feel a little incompetent, as if my education is making me a poorer communicator. Why can't I just enjoy my sister's world as a child would?