Is it possible to reach a point where you are smarter than your parents?

Question

When you are a child adults tend to make you feel like you know nothing, but as you grow up.....finish higschool......go to college.......they listen to you more and respect your ideas but I sometimes think that they fear you a bit because of what you know.........

The youth of today is more informed about things that occur in the world thanks to technology and other factors.

What do you think?

Answer 1

"When I was 18, I was embarassed of my father's ignorance. By the time I was 24, I was amazed at what the old man had learned in 6 years!" Mark Twain

Answer 2

Yes, with education our kids are likely to be smarter. There is the possibility also that with inherited genes from the gene pool of the mom and dad that the kid could actually be more 'intelligent" than his or her parents. I think that is to be celebrated. It is the job of the parent to provide an environment and opportunities that allow a child to reach full potential. The child then can quite possibly far surpass the parents.
I know this occurred with my son.

Answer 3

It is a fact of life that children may be more intelligent than there parents. But I've found that even when this is the case, parents often deserve and recieve resect for other things. Smarts arent everything... and a mother who can counsel her son on how to deal with a bad break up, or get a good job interview, may be worth more than a mother who knows how to text a friend.

Parents can be intimidated, but its probably more becuase their children have gone where they cannot follow, rather than becuase they wish they knew what thier kids knew. Or, being humans, they dislike being in the dark.

Answer 4

each generation is an expert on their own generation. When things change then the next generation learns about their own generation.

You can't compare one generation to another.

I mean like your generation might know a lot about computers, but should computers ever go down and we go back 20 years, then "my" generation will know more than yours.

I don't think the older people are fearful of what the younger people know, however as you get older you do get more frail and being frail is scary, but it has nothing to do with knowledge.

Answer 5

My kids are all smarter on certain subjects, which they are studying or upon which they are building their careers. As a result, I am very proud of them. But as to being smart overall, then I'd say no. Experience counts.

Plus, I'm bigger than they are, and as you know, size matters!

Answer 6

We think that we get to that point based on technology - but our parents had to live the hard way - learning/living what works!@

Answer 7

You will not be smarter than your parents until you realize how much wisdom they have. You will quite likely one day be smarter than they are, whatever that is defined as in common parlance, but you are nowhere near there yet.

Answer 8

I beleive that if you really think u know more then your parents then u don't have a clue. You learn by experience and u get that through time..The time comes from living on this earth..Get my driff? You'll get it when u hit 40...If your lucky.

Answer 9

EVERYONE FEELS THIS WAY FROM THE AGE OF 16 TO ABOUT THE AGE OF 27, WHEN THEY FINALLY START TO GROW UP. AT THAT POINT, THEY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND, THE OLDER THEY GET, THE MORE THEY REALIZE THE LESS THEY KNOW.

Answer 10

it is possible to reach this point but you only think you are smarter you actually arent! eventually though senility sets in and they lose brain cells so you will eventually be smarter if only for a short time