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There's another cliche, though-- the wise, low status person. This person is usually old, though occasionally you get a child who's wise beyond their years.
I can't think of any tropes about surprisingly wise middle-aged people.
Parents (or contemporaries of parents) who turn out to be surprisingly wise are a staple of a certain kind of YA fiction.
I wonder if this is a slight reaction to another kind of YA fiction, in which adults are useless, often from stupidity.