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To: E'Lane who wrote (42184)	4/10/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: CWolf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

And happy saturday to you, E!, and you too Brooke, and the rest of you out there in dgiv land... E!, did you know that one of your 'truths about parenting' has a basis in scientific fact? Yep it does! Let me elaborate... - It rarely occurs to teenagers that the day will come when they'll know as little as their parents. This is actually preceded by that wonderful period in a teenager's life where they know everything there is to know about anything. To prove this, all you have to do is try to explain something to them and they will quickly correct you, chastise you, look at you like you just fell off the turnip truck, or at the very least roll their eyes so far up that they can now see out the top of their head. The latter gives them an interesting view of the world and probably explains why so many of them wear their sunglasses on top of their head. The cause of this knowledge balance syndrome is a slow developing psychic tranferrence of not only all the knowledge of the parents but that of the entire world into the brain of a developing child. It can start as early as age 8 or 9, but is usually in full swing by age 12 and is completed by the time the child is around 14. Once the transferrence is complete, the parent is now left with no intelligence or sense whatsoever while the teenager has complete command of all the facts there are to know. Opinions, of course, are also transferred, but often get jumbled in the process since they are not as ordered as facts are. The parents are allowed to keep their opinions... as long as they keep them to themselves or express them only to other parents or co-workers. It also doesn't matter how many children parents have, the same phenomenon occurs with each. The more children, the longer the parent stays in the 'how can you be so dumb' stage. The fortunate aspect of this condition, is that it is naturally reversible. Just as the knowledge flowed out to the children, so also is it that sometime around age 20 give or take, the reversing cycle begins. The knowledge transfer begins to flow the other way. Also fortunate in this aspect is that only the original knowledge transferred from the parent is transferred back to be reintegrated with any random particles of knowledge the parent has managed to squirrel away during the 'empty' period. This means that the no longer teenager does retain some accumulated knowledge that will no doubt help them when they are finally ejected out of the house into the real world. I can speak from the experience of raising four daughters, the oldest now 30 and the youngest 17, that there is no cure for, remedy, or avoidance of this process. Parents who have their children early in life and close together, recover quicker, but pay a price in rapid aging, baldness, nervous tics, and develop strange habits. Parents who have their children later in life and space them out aren't spared, they just go through it over a longer period of time, but due tend to retain a bit more youth until the last one finally leaves. I hope, anyway!! In short, it is an unavoidable part of being a parent. Brooke, you have a lot to look forward to and like the rest of us who have and are living through it, so too will you. <vbg> Disclaimer: the above explanation was developed from a comprehensive long term study conducted by me with the uncooperation of my four daughters, the older two of whom would partially agree with some of it, the younger two of whom would most adamently disagree mostly because their retransfer hasn't begun yet <g>. Have a great day all! Chuck