My Mom when I was 17

Great mom status: ✔

Comments like that will have much more worth down the road.

My dad when I was 15: I don't really understand your music but I love how happy it makes you feel and I trust you to make good decisions.

Me to my 15 year old: more or less the same.

I predict your children when grown will also be (or became)your friends.

My mother referred to my weekend clothes as “get-ups” but we shared the same tastes in music. I’ll never forget the day I caught her dancing to Funkadelic. 😄

That's awesome. I do the same with my soon to be 19 year old son. I let him be his own man. And I love the music he listens to as well. We actually went to the Deftones concert together just last year!

Theres a difference. And I see the same thing with my kids.

Your mom wasn’t a punkhead. That was all alien to her. She didn’t know punk music. She didn’t like the clothes. She couldn’t grasp the meaning.

But You can relate. You had the look, the music, the connection. Now you can appreciate your son’s direction. 😊

Im thrilled my kids take after me. My oldest is my mini-me (from what others told me). It makes me proud. But I still look at him sideways when he suggests something ‘weird’ to me. I think its a protective thing we develop as a parent.

There's a real generational shift in communication and attitudes. I hope it holds for a while. I definitely feel like the young/old divide is less toxic these days. Still not always perfect, but in a better place.

You're ruining the fun MOM