{"id":14037,"date":"2016-02-02T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momservations.com\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:21:21","slug":"you-think-youre-so-smart-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/you-think-youre-so-smart-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"You Think You\u2019re So Smart\u2014Think Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Momservation:\u00a0<\/strong>If you think you\u2019re so smart, call me when that Geometry teaches you how to keep a check book balanced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you hate it?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you hate it when your high schoolers think they are smarter than you? The snicker you get when you ask if they need any help with their homework. The scoff thrown at you when you tell them you used to be pretty good at math. The eye-roll and I-told-you-so head shake when you glance at what their working on and back away saying, \u201cOkay, well, looks like you got this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First it was computer literacy, then social media and app aptitude, now it\u2019s chemistry, AP history and French 3\u2014those smug teenagers think they keep collecting things that make them the superior intelligent being in the home relegating the adults to being the house idiot in conjunction with lame, embarrassing, and SO not getting it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-14038\" src=\"https:\/\/momservations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/happy_math_student-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"happy_math_student\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you something Mr. and Miss Honors English and Chemistry Club: Just because I may not be able to apply a Rational Zeros Theorem, or remember squat about the French Revolution, or could not tell you on a good day that C<sub>2<\/sub>H<sub>3<\/sub>NaO<sub>2<\/sub><sub>\u00a0 <\/sub>is the chemical symbol for sodium acetate (I just cheated and looked at your chemistry quiz notes for that) it doesn\u2019t mean my knowledge is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I\u2019ll see your French verb conjugations (useless in California) and match it with my semi-fluent Spanish (a better bet since Latinos are now the majority of your home state), and raise you trying to get downtown to Golden 1 Center, the future home of the Sacramento Kings, without your phone GPS.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, Mr. and Miss Smarty Pants Dance, you lose because you\u2019re lost because you still aren\u2019t familiar with streets and roads in your own town and you\u2019ve never learned how to read a map. (Will this generation be able to get anywhere without a calm, female voice instructing them: \u201cWhen it is safe to do so, make a legal U-Turn.\u201d?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14042\" src=\"https:\/\/momservations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Been-there-done-that-tshirt.jpg\" alt=\"Been there done that tshirt\" width=\"324\" height=\"324\" \/>Can you pick up the phone and in two minutes have the former Chief of Staff to the First Lady of California do you a favor? I can.<\/p>\n<p>Can you produce, promote, and execute a professional football tailgate event, quarterly events and half-time show? I can and did.<\/p>\n<p>Can you write a proposal to convince a Fortune 500 company to choose your business or write a 70,000 word manuscript? No? Cause, funny, I did.<\/p>\n<p>I may not have the book smarts I once did, but I have the life smarts. I have experience. I have connections. I have trial and error, live and learn, been there, done that, got the T-shirt know-how. Instead of keeping my world small and limited by being consumed by what is going on in my smart phone, overly obsessed with latest posts, tweets, pics and viral videos, I\u2019m literate in real world, real relationships, and real, important knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>And oh yeah, I don\u2019t see your college degree or post-graduate credential next to mine.<\/p>\n<p>So, go ahead and take your Rational Roots Theorem and your memorized periodic table and keep on moving up the road there playa. You may think I\u2019m fallin\u2019 behind ya, but I\u2019m way, way ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And for people who are so smart, you\u2019d think you\u2019d have figured out by now how to keep a room clean.<\/p>\n<p>#JustBeenServed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little reality check for smug teenagers who think they&#8217;re smarter than their parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1271,2,1917,1918,1919,86,3,5,28,1520,1512,1920,1921,1361],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-best-mom-blogs","tag-family","tag-handling-teenage-attitude","tag-helping-teens-with-homework","tag-helping-with-homework","tag-kelli-wheeler","tag-kids","tag-momservations","tag-parenting-humor","tag-parenting-teens","tag-raising-teens","tag-smart-kids","tag-teenage-reality-check","tag-teens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You Think You\u2019re So Smart\u2014Think Again - Kelli M. 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