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I Was Cool Before I Had Kids. My Daughter Doesn't Care

SimonSkafar/E+/Getty ImagesI taught the class on Cool. It’s true, I did. Every week, over a dozen university students filed into my classroom to learn, from me, about being cool. What is cool? Why is cool? Where did cool come from and what does it mean? Was I cool? I had to stop myself before I answered. The second you start thinking you might be cool, you’re cooked and categorically uncool. Already, upon reading the title of this piece, I imagine some of my friends giving me shit about claiming to have ever been cool. But that's part of being cool, taking shit from your friends, right?When an...