Now that my kids have homework, I am getting really smart.

I know all sorts of things that I had totally forgotten or never learned in the first place.

It’s amazing the bits of information I have in my head now.

Just a few examples include: all of my times tables up through 12, the phases of the moon, what an anemometer is, the finger trick to easily figure out the nines tables, that Christopher Columbus was trying to get to Asia when he stumbled upon America and why the Yellow River is yellow.

There’s plenty more, and I’m sure plenty more to come. I never realized that when I had kids, I was signing on to homework all over again.

Hopefully, by the time high school rolls around, they won’t need me to be quite so involved. I’m really not interested in relearning calculus, chemistry and how to do a foot note.