It’s amazing, isn’t it? How smart we parents are, absolutely able to solve any problem in the world, knowing everything, for about 12 years. Then suddenly we become so stupid. We remain stupid for about seven years, and then suddenly it is realized that we DO know some things after all! And we might become geniuses again ten years from then, for a short while. We end up dumb again though it seems, but at that point they tend to at least love the old dummies. :)
Mark Twain wrote, “When I was seventeen, my father was the most ignorant dolt I had ever known up till then. But when I turned twenty-one, I was amazed at how much the old boy had learned in just four years!”