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Hey Pandas, How Do You Explain Youth Culture To Your Parents And What Is The Best Response? (Closed)
Parents are and other generations. How do you explain things to them, which are normal for teens and young adults but completely strange to your parents?
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My grandmother: Why do these girls in TV wear these long fake nails and color their hair blue or green? Is it for attention?
Me: Why do you put on makeup and dye your hair a different color? Is it for attention?
Grandma: No, I do it for me, so I feel nice.
Me: There you go.
Grandma: Oh...that makes sense.
My 69-year-old dad every time I'm sitting on PC:
- Playing your video games again?
- Dad, I'm watching esports where somebody else is playing, I don't play.
- Yeah whatever, don't play for too long.
Mom: pause the game.
Me: its an online game. i cant pause it.
Mom: idc tell people no to kill you then
I mean... she thinks people are a lot nicer than they are. (Especially on Xbox live)
Me: Ma’, how do you kill a zombie?
My 63 year-old mother: Uh.. Uh.. YOU SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD!!!
I have taught her well!
Tropico.
"In this game, I am are dictator like Fidel Castro, my task is to oppress my people and that for as long as possible.
My mom looked at me for a long time, then hesitantly said OK and left my room shaking her head.
I don't usually explain anything to my mom about younger people, but when I try to she just doesn't get it or laughs it off as being dumb.
It depends really, sometimes when i would try to explain some things to my mom she either gets:
1. Annoyed
2. Laughs it off
3. Thinks it's dumb
It´s not really explaining, but once I wrote a bunch of slang on a paper for my mommy (38) to practice. I wrote sus, but she said soos lol. I laughed at her, then she told me that ´´sus is not a word´´ I beg to differ!!!!
Actually "Sus" is the scientific name for a pig so it is in fact a real word
Mom: What’s this “meme”
Me: it’s a funny or ugly photo and text under it
Mom: oh so it’s like your school photo with your name underneath?
Me: …. Cliché mother
My son is 20. He still can't tell the time, or understand it's relevance to daily routines.