Parents are often prone to believe that they alone have problems. Many youngsters, however, feel that they too have as troublesome and perplexing ones as any that their elders encounter. No problem is more common to youth than that of education, and sometimes the most annoying subject in the curriculum is mathematics. It is a rare family indeed in which a boy or girl has not at some time exclaimed: "I simply cannot do my examples. I guess I must be stupid. I don't know what I am going to do." And we sometimes hear a fond parent assert, almost proudly, it seems: "My boy is a blockhead in mathematics. But I suppose I ought not to blame him too much, because I did not do so well in the subject myself and neither did my father before me."
It is quite plain that the solving of the problem concerns not only the boy or girl, but the parents as well. In other words, it is a family problem, one that calls for teamwork. Whether it is mathematics, grammar, geography, or the more advanced courses that are to be mastered, the opportunity is always at hand to demonstrate the supremacy and availability of God, the all-knowing Mind, in meeting the human need.
The parent and child together should endeavor to gain a clear realization and understanding of God and man. Since God is One and infinite, there can be no place or situation in which intelligence is not ever present and available. Any suggestion that man is unintelligent or stupid is an utter falsity. God, divine intelligence, must be expressed; otherwise God would be impotent, and infinite Mind cannot be expressed haphazardly, intermittently, falteringly, or unintelligently. Because God is perfect and ever active, His manifestation or reflection, man, must likewise be perfect and ever active.
