When carpooling kids, I’ve learned to not insert myself into their conversations.
First, we don’t even speak the same language. And second, anything an adult says to a 12-year-old (that’s not a direct order) is just noise.
So, instead of trying to make conversation, I try to learn their lingo.
Today, I offer a glossary of Generation Z terms with their Baby Boomer equivalents. (Disclosure: I’m a boomer with two Gen Z kids at home, so my ear is tuned to this stuff.)
Parents, and especially grandparents, please clip and keep (or, in the modern vernacular, “cut and paste”):