My parents just, like, totally don't get me

There are a lot of benefits to having parents that are much older than those of my peers. For example, we we had a lot of financial freedom and were able to embark on really spectacular trips and my parents really saw no need in being strict with me. They had been teachers for 20 years, after all.

There are also a lot of quirks.

For example, my dad still believes seat belt laws are an intrusion of his civil rights and my mom has no retention of how to attach a file to an email.

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The cell phone situation has always been a battle with me and my parents. In 5th grade I made a powerpoint presentation of why I should be allowed 1. for more than an hour of TV a week and 2. to have a cell phone.

They were so impressed with my tech savvy ways that I got the screen time and the little flip phone where I was allowed to send AND RECEIVE 25 text messages a A MONTH.

(For reference of how ridiculous this is, I have sent and received 17 messages in the last four minutes.)

Recently I took myself off of our phone plan because they could not wrap their head around the fact that 2 GB of data was not going to work for me.

Today when we were discussing the different generations, all my parents' annoyance with my phone habits made complete sense. They really did not get me. They are Boomers and I'm a Millennial that is REAL close to being a spime, delta, a doom, or whatever those little nuggets want to be called.

They have no comprehension of what my life is like in terms of my social media presence and how my relationships are constructed because when my dad was my age he didn't even have a landline and my mom was off in Europe backpacking with stationary in her bag.

They stopped even trying to explain what my job was when I worked as a social media consultant for restaurants and again as a PR professional for a deep B2B technology agency.

My mother does try to understand, though. In her own classroom in Newport, WA she was extremely passionate about her document camera and the Apple TV where she could connect the HD version of the 1960's version of Romeo and Juliet and easily cut the boobie scene.

My dad, on the other hand, keeps his technology presence slimmed down to Facebook, texting, the DVR and the laptop IF his email stayed logged in. He nearly had a conniption when I tried to show him how to work our Kindle Stick.

I'm so excited to slowly start to incorporate more tech into their lives and watch the smoke flow from their ears.