The generational gap - things your kids laugh at you about

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my Dc ds17, dd13 think it’s hilarious because I make them take actual cash with them when they go out, even with me on trips away from home. It basically stays in thier bag. They can not get over why they’d need it when they have Apple Pay. I’ve always had a safety £5 when I went out with my mates at thier age, but I’ve obviously explained that sometimes card payments are not reliable and one time you might just need cash. It came to me earlier when DS told me his bus pass case was broken and he needed a new one because he keeps his safety money in that.

anyone else getting heat because of the generational gap 😂

I make mine carry cash too, what if their phone gets stolen?

I really notice that my teens want subtitles on all the time. I hate it, ruins the film for me as all I do is read the words before they are spoken. They both have excellent hearing so I don't understand why they need it.

That I don't understand memes. They will be laughing hysterically about some meme, show me and I'm like 'huh'? It just doesn't make sense to me, therefore I can't find it funny!

I've got one that like subtitles and one that actively doesn't, says they are distracting, as does DH. I love subtitles myself and would have them on as default.

Iced coffee was the thing for me, apparently NO ONE drinks hot coffee in summer. It has taken a while but I've been converted now.

Getting all serious for a minute - work ethic is a big cause of disagreement in our house! We have it, they don’t. It’s a completely alien concept to them. They just don’t get it. Apparently, it’s “not that deep”, and we are worrying about their lack of it too much. Who cares if you do the absolute, and I mean absolute, bare minimum. Who cares if you don’t (regularly) turn up for work? What are we talking about when we say “career progression”? Or talk about future goals?
It is driving us mad and is very worrying. They are late teens, early twenties, and hope they grow out of it as reality bites. Arghh!

That I print things out (boarding passes, concert tickets etc). Because having everyones boarding passes on one phone when you're all trying to separately go through electronic barriers makes complete sense. Especially when you realise at the airport its out of battery.

This is really hard.

My own experience is dd (admittedly only 13) only works if there's something concrete in it for her. At the moment she is desperate to leave home to get away from me (half joking) so her incentive to work hard at school is otherwise she'll be stuck living with me forever. I pretend I'd love that and we'll do lots of fun things together for the rest of my life - then she goes and does her homework properly.

My teen DD loves sending voice notes. I hate them, they make me feel ancient- I can’t hear them so I put my ear to the phone which then stops the message.

They laugh at the size of my font, and the way I hold my phone to take a selfie.

And GOD FORBID I accidentally leave my phone torch on.

Maybe they have it right? Have they seen stressed parents working their asses off at the expense of mental health and a social life? Having different priorities to you is ok. AI will take away most jobs as we know them very soon and they will have to bring in universal credit or something, so they are probably correct in their thinking

Yes. They claim they can read mine from a different country :)

Ours have a good work ethic in that they've actively sought out jobs from about age 16 and stuck with them, turning up punctually and regularly and both volunteer too. It was only in DS's last year at uni that he started thinking properly about it, DD still doesn't know what she wants to do. DH and I have both had successful careers but more by accident than design, as we've taken each step as we've found it, never had long term goals really, perhaps we should talk to them more about it.

Train tickets, that's another one, neither of mine could make head nor tail of ticket machines and used apps from the start, then laughed at me for still using the machine. I'm a firm convert to the apps now, they were right.

@BaffledAndBemusedToothe work ethic hit in their 20’s. before that I was especially concerned with ds’s attitude. He’s currently on a grad scheme with frequent exams and he works incredibly hard - too hard really, so much do that he needs me to tell him it’s ok to take a night off so he doesn’t feel guilty - I find myself now in the weird position of encouraging a better work-life balance. This comes as a very big shock to me!

I'm the opposite, my daughter laughs at me because I have subtitles on. It actually started when I had her, because it was so noisy all the time that I constantly missed what was being said. I can't watch TV with them them now 😅

Sorry, quoted wrong post

Where/how do they carry it?

I have an emergency £20 in my phone, but it strikes me that the most likely reason I'll need it is I've lost my phone....

Hahaha! My son says, “you’ve left your nana lamp on.”

There is no way I am drinking cold coffee, yuk

my father always said to me, there’s nothing worse than warm beer and cold coffee

Personally I need subtitles because actors all seem to mumble and mutter. Or the backing music is too loud. Even with my good hearing I miss half of what they’re bloody saying.

Coffee that has GONE cold is bad but iced coffee is a different animal. And way nicer than hot.

So send the tickets to everyone’s phones via AirDrop? That way there are backups on other peoples and each person has their pass? Duh

We airdrop tickets and passes to each other, also share them in Apple files. Store them in Apple wallet wherever possible in case of no reception. DH and I can access the apple wallets on our watches if our phones go flat. But I do take paper copies of travel insurance, photos of passports when travelling abroad.

Years ago!!! My kids were howling with laughter as I said let’s have a Kentucky fried chicken for tea! Apparently nobody said that anymore it’s KFC!

I was so perplexed by their laughter, it was about 15 years ago and I realised that unknown to me I’d become uncool!!

Just remembered another one. I went into New Look to get a gift voucher for my niece’s birthday. Couldn’t see any on the counter so I asked, “do you do gift vouchers?’ The very young woman behind the counter gave me a puzzled look, hesitated and said “ohhhh, you mean giftcards” which made me feel like a dinosaur.

The way I type on my phone, is too slow and also that if im sending a message I cant have a conversation with them - the irony is they are also not paying attention to me, when they are on their phones so .... 🤷‍♀️

Im pretty sure they have subtitles on because theyre also looking at their phone while watching a film. We ban it for quiz shows though because if its not properly synchronised, it gives a spoiler to the answer! 🤣

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise my DC (and probably all of gen z and maybe millenials) never listen to music on the radio, except if we're in the car. I listen to the radio all day long, and remember doing so when revising for my gcses. In fact certain songs immediately take me back to gcse revision

Exactly. I print everything out too. They have apple pay and apps and everything on the phone. So what happens if the phone dies or is stolen or gets lost? They have zero back up.

DH is in his 40s and laughs at his parents for falling of Kentucky