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It's mojo in the morning So all those years Of being told That you know You gotta do things right You found out all along that your mom was doing it wrong

Well this is just a very Full circle moment for Me and my sisters My mom I don't know what kind of parents you guys had When you were growing up But my mom albeit she's very fun now And very laid back But when we were growing up and going to school she was really strict when it came to academics so i'm the oldest of three girls okay and we were expected to get all ace and nothing less not an a minus always okay mom was tough was this was this how scott mick was for you absolutely the same okay so fast forward a few decades and she had to help my sister with something for work and write a letter about her you guys my sister called me the other night. I thought something was wrong. I thought she was crying. I thought she was sobbing. She was laughing so hard because my mom had given her this letter. It sounded like my five-year-old Smith wrote it. Lucy could truly write a better, more eloquent letter. You know those books that were like, this is Jane. Jane likes dogs. Jane has a ball. Jane goes to school. That was what her letter reminded me of And my sister and I just roasted her Because all of those years of pushing us And come to find out

Mom was like a C, maybe D student And we were like, really? I just never noticed it before Like there was never a situation like this And it was so funny

I've got to tell you that I kind of relate to the fact that I will tell my kids all the time about how they have to stay in school they got to do all this stuff and then when they bring home homework that they need help with yeah i couldn't figure it out i had no clue like i this is no joke i had to stop helping my kids with their homework before the fifth grade like i couldn't even do like remember when they used to do are you smarter than a fifth grader yeah i hated that show because i wasn't smarter than a fifth grader no like have you ever had an issue with trying to help your kids with their homework or trying to figure that out?

Lucy's in third grade, and the way that they do math is very, very, very different from how I learned. So she's doing fractions right now. And the way that they have to show their work, which is part of their grade, not just getting the right answer, I, like, in my head, I'm like, well, we used to do it this way. So I want to show her to do it that way. But they do it a totally different way that I really don't understand. So now her teacher is smart, and she has taken to sending YouTube videos to the parents to show us this is how they are learning how to do it. So if they ask for help, do it this way.

I'm going to tell you this right now, that if ChatGPT was around when Joe, Jacob, and Luke were in school, ChatGPT would have been at our kitchen table.

Nope, absolutely not. You know, it was even better than did exist. WolframAlpha, everybody remember that bad boy? It showed you how to do the math problem step by step. Wait, what? What was it? $399, a month. WolframAlpha. You could type in any problem, and it would show you step-by-step how to write out the work and do your homework for you. It was a lifesaver.

Well, Google definitely helped you with anything, right? Because you could find the answer key pretty much anywhere. I mean, it's even better nowadays. Like, you pretty much had no idea what was going on. My biggest thing, I remember Chelsea coming up to me one time and saying, did you actually teach him how to do it? And I said, yeah. And then she goes and asks. It was Joe. And she goes and asks him. She goes, did Dad teach you how to do that? And he goes, no, dad just got me the answers because I Googled the answers. I said, here, just put the answers down. Nobody's going to know. Nobody's going to ask that thing. It's funny, though, when you find out later, like when you find out later about your parent. Now, my dad was a very, very smart guy and my mom was also very smart, too, because my mom was a school teacher. My dad was a doctor.

But my siblings were the ones. I always thought that my older siblings were like really brilliant people.

Yeah.

Until I actually realized. They were like me. They were hustlers. They were able to con their teachers into giving them good grades and stuff like that.

Yeah, which my mom was a nurse for a long time. She's retired now. And she's like, I was really good at science, just not writing. I'm like, yeah.

Yeah. Sometimes it's just work ethic you need, right? That's what you end up trying to get is just to give them the old work ethic thing. Was Mike in your house with Allie? She doesn't let you come near any other homework or any of that stuff, right?

First off, I am a mathematician. No, absolutely not. Not even a little bit. I do help with math. I am pretty good at math. But outside of that, when it comes to, like, anything else, writing, science, history.

Cecily now is in what grade?

Third grade.

So at what point are you done? At what point do you retire from helping with homework?

Fourth grade. It's hard and real.

And then Allie, then it becomes, because for me, the tasks for me were then doing all the dishes, the tasks were cleaning up, taking the garbage out, doing all that stuff that Chelsea would normally be like, oh, yeah, you help the kids and I'll do all the rest of this stuff.

The big thing is that Cecily is learning how to write neatly. So I was going to show her how to write it neatly, and Allie walked into the room and looked at the paper. She goes, Cecily, let's work on your handwriting. We need to work on what writing need. I was like, no, that's mine. I wrote that.

What's going on? How you doing, Shannon?

I'm doing pretty well. What's up? So growing up, I graduated in 03, and I remember using Clip Notes. It made everything easier, especially like a book report. Like even The Outsiders was one of the ones that I used it for.

Oh, yeah, everybody had to read it. Wasn't there something called Spark Notes, too? or am I making that up in my head? What was the difference? Just different publishers.

Okay. Were they?

I also think they're generational too, right? Because my generation was also Cliff Notes too.

I was at Spark Notes, kids.

Yeah. What's up, Danielle?

Oh, good morning, guys. How are you? Good morning.

What's going on?

Okay, I just want to say it's my grandchildren, my grandsons, my first and fourth graders. When they have sleepovers, they come with their homework because they're very disciplined, their parents are very organized. They pull out those packets, they get to work, they hit a snag. Oh, Grandma, can you help me with this? Oh, Grandma looks at this math chart, five numbers here, like, nope, put that back in your bag and you guys can finish that when you get home.

Especially when Grandma has a drink at night, right?

Well, no, this Grandma doesn't drink. This grandma's just on a natural high. Oh, okay. What other than natural, okay?

I love it. That's great. Thank you for the call, Danielle.

Thank you.

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