Going through the same school a year below my older brother, it was quite eye opening realizing my father helped my brother with all the science class engineering assignments while I was left to my own devices.
He makes me feel so smart for actually looking for connections between two or more clues rather than working out every possible category a single clue could ever fit in and trying to force the surrounding clues to be part of it
I remember doing that July 1st connections, what a terrible purple category. An answer so stupid that I literally thought of it and went "nah there's no way it's that dumb" then proceeded to fail