My niece is married to a man who has been blind since birth. He asks all these questions about things and wants us to describe something to him,or how something works like I hear my neighbor say e has a bad piston. What is a piston, what does it look like and what does it do. What does a silver maple look like. It is really hard to describe in words that you actually have to had seen something to reference this to. But I love the curiosity in him.

My youngest grand daughter is in the 3rd grade and a math expert. I guess if you have grown up and common core is all you have ever known, it comes naturally. Now her 14 year old sister is still good in school but terrible in math. My youngest daughter, her aunt, helped her by answering in the kind of math we all grew up with. She instantly could figure out the answer but that doesn't help when you have to show your answer.