No more change

[mbrooks20]

My daughter: Mom you need to upgrade your cassette player to a cd player. It makes you look way too old.

Me: But I hate to change there is way too much change and I was going for a sexy foxy mom look anyways. UHHHH

My daughter: Rolls her eyes and says mom you are just too crazy for your own good sometimes.

[Kenu]

Let her know that vinyl is coming back👍. It’s making a circle and you may be right back into it with cassette’s😜😂🤣😁 Ken 🐾🐾

[agate]

Even a mom's nearly middle aged child can say this kind of thing. I don't know the age of your daughter but my son is 47. When I got a smartphone recently, he said, "Welcome to the 21st century, Mom!" as if I'd been living entirely in the past.

Now he's disappointed that I'm not taking photos with this smartphone, or text messaging, or whatever. Hey, I'm available by e-mail and by instant message on my PC almost 24/7 and have been for about 20 years, as he knows perfectly well. He seemed quite disappointed about the photos but he gave me a good digital camera he no longer wanted some years ago, and it takes much better pictures than that phone.

I pointed that out.

I haven't heard any more of these comments but I'm sure that's not the end of them. Kids seem to like despairing over their parents' hopeless backwardness.

[mbrooks20 in reply to agate]

my daughter is 15 and laughs at me when it comes to the abbreviations they use in text messages. I once thought lol meant lots of love. When someone died I posted that in my text only to learn that it meant something totally different. Good thing everyone knows me.

[rjoneslaw]

everything old is now the new

[agate]

And if you have more than one kid, they tend to compare notes with each other about how hopelessly behind the times their parents are.