Doing Homework With the Kids Leads Me to Believe I Am Not Smarter Than a 5th Grader!

Now that you are a parent and back to doing homework again, is there anything that you have realized that you still don’t know?  Here’s My List of Things I still don’t know.

Ok, so my boys are now both in grammar school and their homework is also my homework.  I thought I was done with school, but Oh no my friend…I get to relive it all over again with the kids! Like if redoing grammar school isn’t bad enough, I have learned there is a ton of stuff that I don’t know.  Nothing like telling the kids, “hold on, let me Google that!”

So, these are the things that as a 35 year old mom I should know but don’t:

1-  I have no idea what direction I am heading if the sun is not out or I don’t have a compass! Tell Me Left or Right for the love of God!

2-  What the hell is an integer?

3-  No, I cannot look at a blank map of the US and tell you what state goes where… Dah, that’s why I have a GPS!

4-  I never found it important to remember the 15th president of the United States… I do, however, know that he is no longer with us!

5-  Do I know the pre-amble by heart? Seriously? I’m lucky if I can remember where my head is everyday!

6-  How long would it take to travel from the sun past all planets? Assuming you would travel in the fastest spacecraft today. “WHATEVER TEACHER”

7-  Mommy, in what order are the planets closest to the Sun? ” Ummmm…Let’s Google That”

8-  For Science Fair I need to make a toy car run from a Potato… “Yeah, that’s why they invented gas. Tell your teacher to get with today’s technology”

9-  Mommy, who invented the phone?  ”T-Mobile, At&T, Verizon and Sprint! I know this for sure!”

10- Mommy,  I have to explain and site an example of osmosis. “Ok, so every night when daddy goes to bed, I slip a note under his pillow that says ” Always lift the toilet seat up before peeing and put it back down when done so mommy’s butt doesn’t take a 2am swim.”  Eventually the note sinks into daddy’s head, and that is osmosis!”

So, as a parent doing homework with the kids, what have you realized that you just don’t know?  I would love to know!  Mostly so I know that I am not alone!