Ratios

I am actually pretty good with math. I just "get it". The daughter "gets it" too. most of the time. Not tonight though. Which makes it that much more frustrating when she keeps interrupting me in the middle of the explanation of a problem. I know she can get this.

I guess this highlights the unspoken "ratio problem" that parents never seem to really talk about: are we as parents really up to the job? We know that the kids are smarter than us, better looking, more athletic, the hope of the future. We are relics of the past, decaying away into worn out nearly useless antiques of a bygone era. The ratio does not look to be balanced in our favor.

We can change this though. Learn to provide instruction without showing anger. Direct the frustration away from the relationship with the child. Learn to say "I don't know". At least then we can hold our heads high when our kids realize that we really didn't know what we were doing and proclaim "at least we were honest!"

I need to go work on my ratios.