Out of Touch

I admit I have never been 100% into pop culture; I didn’t have cable until I was like 13 and I wasn’t allowed to listen to the radio until I was 16. I did for a short time during law school get into the gossip web pages about celebrities; I blame Rachel for that one. With all that said I feel like at least for the last 10 years I have been pretty good at picking up trends and knowing who the big bands are out there. I never understood why parents never seemed to really understand trends and what music was good (popular) and what was not. I was so convinced that Don and I would be “cool” parents, we would listen to the same music as our kids and just generally get it.
I already stand corrected. I figured out who the Jonas Brothers were through Good Morning America (already a bad sign for my coolness). Apparently they are the end all be all for tween girls right now (the backstreet boys of this generation). Well I was trying to tell Don something about the Jonas Brothers and his response “who are the Jonas Brothers I have never heard of them” even after I played him the music he wasn’t sure he had ever heard it. I am not trying to say that I know anymore then him, I don’t know the names of any of them, who they are dating and I am not 100% sure which songs are their much less the words to them.
I guess the reason parents are un-cool is that they give up all the time it takes to stay current raising their kids. We also have a different perspective on the importance of such things, that and we don’t need to fit in with our peers on such an extreme level like kids feel they need to do when they see them everyday in school.
So here’s to the beginning of being an out of touch parent!