heheheh I wouldn't say I was vindictive - but probably I was - it was just more like, "Unless you tell me WHY I'm not going to listen. And unless it makes good SENSE I'm not going to listen."
It completely burned my dad, because he was raised very much in the world of "I'm the parent so what I say goes." I thougth that was just a bunch of balogney. Sense is sense and nonsense is nonsense no matter who is saying it. LOL!
How are your kids getting along in school? That was most difficult for me - being bored all day because I already knew how to read. My first three years of public school I only went three days a week on average. That was a compromise I decided upon because I didn't know I could skip grades - and my mom didn't want me to skip any grades as she had hated skipping. Wish she'd at least asked me! Geez!