As a parent, your intelligence leaves you, until by the time that your kids are 18 years old... you are completely stupid! BUT... There is good news... By the time that your kids have reached age 30... You have become completely brilliant again! Hang in there... It will get better, in time... 🙂
My daughter, early 20s, called, genuinely shaken. "Mom, I just told a 15 yr old what she was wearing was inappropriate for school! Inappropriate! I swore I'd never use that word...oh, my God, Mom, I'm you!"