Echols: ‘It’s weird when your kids know things you don’t’
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
One ordinary night this week, we had chicken pot pie for dinner and my husband lit the candle that sits in the center of our lazy Susan. The touch of the flame to the wick caused my teenage daughter to tell us about what she’s been learning in chemistry class lately.
Words like ‘entropy’ sounded vaguely familiar from my own time spent in a high school lab, but vague familiarity is all I can claim when it comes to chemistry. The word ‘enthalpy’ said out loud sounded funny to me (give it a try). I told everyone as much, and that was my one grand contribution to the conversation.
It’s weird when your kids know things you don’t.
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