I love this article from the telegraph, as a recent study by researchers have uncovered something quite serious:

Almost four in ten parents think that they are out of touch with the younger generation because they don’t keep up with music and technology, researchers discovered. One in four even admitted they believe that their children see them as “very uncool”.

Their dress sense, owning a “sensible” car and even being a smoker are among the things that make parents feel old-fashioned.

The rest of the research is actually pretty even ended. 3 in 10 keep up with the times and the rest over-all don’t really care and understand it as “just the way it is.”

The study of 2,000 parents who have children aged between 13 and 25, found that having no idea what song is at number one in the charts is most likely to leave them feeling uncool, followed by failing to work an iPhone without asking for help.

Not being able to sing along to chart songs, their dress sense and owning a sensible car completed the top five.

The study itself is pretty entertaining, because the outcome was a top 30 of reasons why they feel uncool. I never got with my parents at all. They were their own people, their own generation, so it’s an absolutely foreign concept to me of parents feeling uncool around their kids. At the very least let’s go over this list of 30 and really break down the wall of uncool-ness. Continue reading →