<p>Do you have a parental superpower that leaves your kids in awe? Mine is finding things they have lost. I just helped D track down her lost driver’s license from 1,000 miles away. It had been missing for a couple of weeks, and I just called her and told her where to find it. It was there. 
What is your superpower? Do your kids give it an appropriate level of respect?</p>
<p>I can sometimes foresee the decisions of my child’s peers from thousands of miles away! Most recently, with very limited (second-hand) information and without ever having actually met them, I was able to predict which freshman girls would quit D’s college team and in what chronological order. D was more than a little freaked out!</p>
<p>I also have that super ability to find lost items. I inherited it from my mom. She used to ask me if she would have to go to college with me or move in with me when I was grown up so she could find my stuff. Now I find my own kids’ stuff all the time and I bite my tongue before I say the rest, but it does enter my mind.</p>
<p>Finding things and figuring out how things work. My sister-in-law is in absolute awe of me, but I think that my “superpowers” are mostly a result of a trivia-filled brain and a half-decent visual memory.</p>
<p>Happykid though has the infallible social-radar that lets her know long in advance who is going to fall in love with whom, and who is going to be able to work well with whom, and whose relationships (both professional and romantic) are just going to blow up. My youngest sister is like this too. I am in absolute awe of them!</p>
<p>I’m known for: Extreme patience, Creating awesome Halloween costumes (the magic only works on Oct 30-31 each year). Unnatural strength and stamina to do physical work during an emergency. Doing the impossible in no time with no resources. Untying knots.</p>
<p>Saying nothing at the right moment. Mindreading. Logistics. Common Sense. Calm in the face of disaster, illness, injury, blood, vomit, etc. Knowledge of trivia. Being there. Killer SAT prep.
Finding everyone’s lost items. (Unfortunately, I’m always misplacing my own stuff–but I eventually find that, too.)</p>
<p>I have a superpower: when I’m consulted (either on the phone or in person) computers magically work correctly. I work in tech support at a university. My co-workers say it’s my aura.</p>
<p>My superpower is the ability to find rock bottom great deals on high quality clothes/shoes that kids like. I find deals at clearance sales,online and very often at Goodwill. </p>
<p>S2 was blown away last week when I mailed him (at college) two RL Polo shirts and a Patagonia fleece jacket that I purchased for a grand total of $10 at Goodwill.</p>
<p>My sense of smell. :)</p>
<p>I can read ESL directions that originated in Asian or Scandinavian countries and direct people to put together the item, getting it right the first time.</p>
<p>I know the right moment to call. People always say ‘I was just thinking about you’. I can communicate in languages I don’t know – ordered a meal for 12 people my first day in Spain with a waitress that didn’t speak English and it all came out right. If I see an actor in a movie or on tv, I can tell you what else he/she has been in within the last couple of years…and if they were ever on Star Trek. Probably can’t tell you their name, though. </p>
<p>My husband calls me Tetris Queen because if you have a room full of odd-shaped objects that need to be packed in a box or a truck, I can judge the most efficient use of space in a glance. I notice things about people and have finally learned not to mention everything I noticed!</p>
<p>Novelisto- I have that tetris packing skill, too, good name!</p>
<p>I have the ability to change the roll of toilet paper in any bathroom in our home. I’m sure that it is a superpower that few possess, because it seems that I’m the only one who is able to do it.</p>
<p>(Minor superpower–replacing the paper towel roll in the kitchen)</p>
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<p>BB - Are you a human breathalyzer? or do you use that superpower in other ways? :)</p>
<p>Alas, ellemenope, we must be twins separated at birth, for I, too, possess that superpower. But I’m also so gifted in that I’m the only one that knows that the dishwasher door actually opens ALL the way.</p>
<p>I am the family filing cabinet and rolodex. Yes, I can lay my hands on that receipt for last month’s car repair or the updated copies of our wills in an instant. Need to know the phone number of that guy who fixed our chimney ten years ago? Hang on, I’ll have it for you in a sec. </p>
<p>I too am married to Tetris (seriously, that’s what the kids call him). No one can pack a car like he can. Its a very handy skill to have when moving kids in and out of dorms, apartments, etc. Everything is packed in tightly and you can still see outside the back window. Yup, that’s why I married him.</p>
<p>Wow, I thought I had dibs on the world’s greatest Tetris husband. Just curious …are your Tetris guys engineers? Mine is.</p>
<p>Things that weren’t in the refrigerator magically appear there when I open the door. </p>
<p>My oldest son had the teachers convinced he had superpowers fixing their computers when he was in elementary school. He confessed to me that 90% of the time they weren’t plugged in.</p>
<p>I just asked my son if I had a parental superpower. His reply: “Kicking a**”.</p>
<p>I asked him what that meant. He said, “getting things done.”</p>
<p>I have this uncanny ability of knowing when the telephone will ring. My husband will occasionally ask where I’m going and I’ll say to get the phone (that hasn’t yet rung) and he just laughs … but then, guess what? <em>RING</em></p>
<p>My DD claims I’m the best packer ever. I agree I’m pretty good at it.</p>
<p>PackMom – Not an engineer. I’m practically innumerate (that’s like illiterate but with numbers…) But I was always really good at those tests where you start with a drawing of an object spread out flat and try to figure what it would look like assembled – spatial reasoning? </p>
<p>Kick a** – That’s a great superpower. I think my D has it. One of her teachers keeps describing her as ‘a force of nature’…is that good?</p>
<p>I am very good at getting good people together to do things that we’re told can’t be done with practically no money or resources. It does admittedly get tiring at times.</p>
<p>I am also very good at knowing a little bit about a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>S has a superpower of buying textbooks and reselling them for more.</p>
<p>D’s superpower is really understanding people, no matter how casually she has met them & staying away from those who are bad for her (very useful lifetime skill). I just love her friends–they & their families are such wonderful people! She has had this skill all her life and manifested it in preschool–I am in awe!</p>
<p>H’s superpower is fixing most computers, tho he shares this superpower with S, so they keep all our many computers working. If they say it can’t be fixed, they’re always right.</p>