Interesting post Cranky, my children have achieved more that i did but only because i worked very hard and put them through uni.. I have one doing a PHD in business medicine , one a director of  a medical laborotory having a degree in medical science, one a economist heading up a Govt department on investment and one who has 3 degrees education hospitality and Nutrition.Ithink my children are streets ahead of me with what they have achieved workwise but i think i am still streets ahead of them in experience, general knowledge and wisdom.

Actualy there is Fluer i think my daughter as a registered nurse and holder of a Masters degree plus being a retired CEO of a large city general hospital would know more than you. Shove your fairy dust back where it came from , you may need it!

Cranky do you get the impression someone is not quite NORMAL... surely a NORMAL person would NOT be that nasty and aggresive definately showing signs of a personality disorder.Moving on if you have put the kettle on i'l have a cuppa too please  lol..

Please make me a cuppa too, with all these "disorders" about, working out who's who is thirsty work.

While you're in the galley, a couple of tim tams wouldn't go astray either!!

I have just made a chocolate cake will that do Micha...out of bickies at the moment but i do have some King Island cream to go with the cake if you like

Getting back on your Topic having a cuppa myself :) 

interesting question seeing as we had tertiary education ourselves didn't consider it before but I have 3 children all with double degrees.

Oldest one Uni Lecturer but a fantastic cook makes great coffee and has a fantastic garden and as a secondary job teaches and helps establishing Community Gardens - which I think he may enjoy more than Lecturing.

Second one Media and Photography, lousy cook but travels worldwide as a Photographer and has a great sense of humour.

third one, my daughter, Media again Web programmer, great cook and handicrafts and can change tap washers and sort out my computer. 

Love home made meals from the two cooks but enjoy getting taken out for meals by the non-cook. 

I still get phoned up for advice from them all but sometimes phone them up for advice too, so all in all guess we are all pretty equal. It's my grandchildren who are just so clever with electronics that amaze me but there again sometimes they come to me for confidential advice on how to deal with their parents and sometimes I do step in and make suggestions if things get a bit fraught. Taking a chance there, tho. Love them all to bits.

What a lovely post Vivity, your children sound like really interesting clever people, love the community gardens ,we have a few around in neighboring suburbs often want to go check them out but never seem to find the time.Just imagine travelling the world with a camera as a job wow i would love that...and i would like to borrow your daughter to programme my computer ..lol it sounds like you have a lovely family lots of give and take and you are still being appreciated for advice, sounds lovely.

Consider it done Micha, hope you don't have a weight problem it's a huge slice with a humungous dollop of cream....lol

my children are definetly smarter than me, but thats not to say i dont have brains,   i do,    the thing is that in my younger days,   the options werent there for university,   esp for women,   it was almost taken for granted that women would leave school,   get married ,have childen.    so didnt need a colledge education,   its a lot different today,    my eldest daughter was the female to become a bank manager in victoria,  in the bank she wo rked at,     that would not even have been an option when i was her age,    WHAT really amazes me is how smart my grandchildren are,    maybe its because they have nothing else in there brains to compare what they learn, my 7 year old granson fixed a glitch i had in my mobile phone,   i had no idea what i had done ,  ANTHONY took it and it was fixed within seconds,       tyler,  nearly 10 has books on fossils, [an interest that he has]    that some adults would have trouble u,,derstanding,   he reads them like comics,   im amazed at the young ones, 

Mine are certainly different from me, and that is a good thing.

Makes them interesting,

SD