<p>I am smarter than my kids because I say so.</p>
<p>Yup. We make funnies and chuckle all day. </p>
<p>haha Alum. Loved that tidbit.</p>
<p>Glad to hear that somebody’s amazing D ‘negotiates’ the dishes chore. Thought it was a boy thing. Sometimes the Great Dishes Whinge happens right after the I-Wanna-Be-a-Soldier pitch. </p>
<p>Honest.</p>
<p>Cheers - Do I hear a hint of BSE (British Spoken English) in the use of the word whinge? Stateside we usually say whine, but my best friend child of immigrant Scottish and English parents says whinge…</p>
<p>A soldier?</p>
<p>He with the silver spoo—tea set–in his mouth, thinks Boot Camp might be fun. This delusion can be traced to inadequate parenting. Obviously.</p>
<p>Living in a Commonwealth country, whinge is an useful, everyday word. Isn’t it miles better than whine? For example, the dog whines and the poms whinge.</p>
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<p>No. This is what we wish we could do all day.</p>
<p>As one of the stupidiest people on the planet (according to eye rolling Ds), I felt very proud of my IPOD discovery.</p>
<p>I also figured out I was smarter because I am apparently the only that knows how to plunge a toliet. And I am the only one that knows the EXACT setting for the toaster. My endless usefulness astounds even me.</p>
<p>I’m smarter because I can read Doonsbury and get the jokes and she still doesn’t.</p>
<p>because when I had braces I left them on until the doctor took them off.
I did not take them off in the back seat of my parents car on the way back to school today and didn’t let my mother know until she picked me up from a track meet at 7:30.
:eek:</p>
<p>I am smarter then my 17yr old daughter because she has the courtesy to allow me to believe it to be true; however, my six-year-old son is not in possession of such a genteel manner as would allow me the same courtesy and self-image as my daughter and in fact functions as a correction to my delusions of parental grandeur.</p>
<p>My moment of superior parental intelligence also involved the computer. After my daughter decided it would be cool to encrypt her entire hard drive I was the one that figured out where the information was stored and how to get it. These moments of parental superiority are becoming much less frequent.</p>
<p>I am smarter because I still have the power to say, and know WHEN to say: “Do it, cause I am still THE MOM.”</p>
<p>Cheers - Boot Camp would be fun? Hmm. Testosterone psychosis? And yes, whinge is a great word.</p>
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<p>Curmudgeon, you must have been the guy who ran the student laundry service when I was in college!</p>
<p>I am smarter because I can plan ahead. I hear that is a developmental skill that comes into play at about age 40.</p>
<p>I am smarter than my kid because I just am. No brag, just fact. :D</p>
<p><a href=“That’s%20my%20story,%20and%20I’m%20sticking%20with%20it”>i</a>*</p>
<p>it’s amazing how much nicer the parents cafe is then the students… so much bigotry and prejudice in there… seems like the parents have an inferiority complex huh? 
lol i’m jk</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, you are evil and obviously taking home ec from my H.</p>
<p>I am smarter than my kid because he is taking a cooking class this semester, and now I will expect him to cook when he comes home. DH already cooks alot. I get to watch Entertainment Tonight :)</p>
<p>cujoe. You can stay as long as you like. Most of the CC parents are too scared to go down to the kid’s cafe. Sometimes cur puts on his topsiders and goes down to take a look but it’s spooky down there.</p>
<p>Anyway, according to new research, tolerance is an aspect of brain development that doesn’t kick in until the fifth decade of human life (40’s).</p>
<p>wow… so the competition flairs until i’m 40 huh? good to know that in advance…</p>