How to Crack your Kids Up, Act Old

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Last week my two older sons and I spent a lot of quality time together. Hubby and youngest son were frolicking in Texas at the US Army All-American Bowl. I enjoyed this time with my two older boys, but I realized I am not as “hip” as I thought I was.

With each generation come their favorite slang sayings. For my generation we had:

    Gag me with a spoon
    Gnarly
    grody to the max
    Holy Cow, that’s, like, totally wicked, dude.
    Where’s the beef?
    and my favorite…. PSYCH!


Trying to keep up with my sons generation and their ever changing vocabulary is a challenge. I have heard:

    Pimp
    Murk
    Git
    Tighten up
    Beast mode


Well one slipped passed me and I got caught “being old.” While attempting to get my two older boys to bed, they were goofing off with each other. I was only half  listening to them as they thought of every excuse to delay bedtime. Middle son was bragging about an accomplishment and oldest son responded, “you wanna a cookie.”

Being the hip Mom that I am, I turned around and said, “There will be no eating cookies right before bed!” My two boys immediately fell into big fits of laugher that took over 5 minutes to overcome. So I guess “you wanna a cookie” does not actually mean you want to eat a cookie. Who knew?

So what are some of the funny sayings you hear your kids saying around the house?

9 thoughts on “How to Crack your Kids Up, Act Old”

  1. Too funny! I love these dialogues with my boys. I just love it when one of those terms slips from my mouth and they just gape and go “WHAT”? Then they gently(!) remind me that we don’t say – cool, or hip, or awesome” anymore! Their big word is “snap”. Which is apparently something really “cool”!

  3. Gay. Why do my kids call everything gay? When I was a kid, gay meant happy. This generation’s expressions are just dorky. (Another word my kids call gay.)

  4. We are empty nesters so I am so in the dark on slang. I would have been totally in the dark on the you wanna cookie thing – that’s too funny!

    I grew up in the same era you did, it sounds like. Like, gag me with a spoon that all the kids are so totally awesome!

    When my sister (who is 12.5 years behind me) was growing up, I heard her say she thought so and so was “all that and a bag of chips.” I said, “All what?” She said, “That!” LOL.

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  5. LOL. I can’t say I’ve heard that one. I asked my 16 yr. old son and he’d never heard that one either. Maybe it’s a Florida term?

    I remember when I was a kid and we always used the word “man” it drove my parents crazy. Now that dates me doesn’t it? LOL.

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  6. This was awesome, Lori! Yes, the Little Darlings can put a few decades on a person, faster than anything else I know. My oldest daughter is currently baffled by my crush on Clint Eastwood – I warned her that thirty years from now her daughter will be saying, “Hugh Jackman, really? But he’s so old.”

  7. Emo: The former word for a goth type person, only this one is more “emotional”. That one is coming often from The Girl.

    I crack my kids up by doing impressions. It’s great to be able to do something that will make them smile still. Too often I’m get “the look” from the Girl. She wants me to be funny only when she wants it.

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  8. Oh that’s too funny. I’m not privy to the latest slang, being another empty nester. My granddaughter cracks me up, though. Whenever I accidentally do something cool, she’s the first to jump up & shout, “ROCK ON, Gigi!!”

    Apparently I’m the bomb around here:-)

    Or is that passe? heehee….

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