Dmytro Betsenko/Moment/Getty ImagesAs I lay on my bed with one of my teens next to me, laughing over a Reel before we forward it to my mom, I find myself suddenly the butt of a joke. “Why do you poke your phone like that, mom? You’re such a Boomer. That’s so unc.”I paused, hovered over the sharing airplane, and looked at the seemingly normal (to me) way that I am tapping my phone. Was I acting like an old lady? Was I “unc,” the new gender-neutral uncle-derived slang term the teens currently use to describe anyone annoyingly older than them?After a moment of denial, I settled into the belief th...
Are We All Boomers Now?
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