I am the mom from Absolutely Fabulous

I went to pick my oldest up this afternoon and got to roll a borrowed E30 with two fenders in primer and bit of a loud exhaust. It was warm so... windows down, jamming on a little MegaDeath Symphony of Destruction. I am wearing a black t-shirt that says Byte Me on it that I got at some software conference in the late 90s. I am having a great day. I am reflecting on how awesome I am and possibly hooning a little as I came down the exit ramp...

My 11yr old is a clean cut honor roll student in a nice, collared shirt standing with friends who all listen to Disney crap music and have hair like Justin Bieber. He looked mortified by my arriving. He got in looking like I killed his puppy and asked me to turn it down.

I wasn't prepared for this. Is there a support group?

A support group for kids that listen to Disney music and cut their hair like Justin Bieber? That is what you're looking for right?

Peace sells, but who's buying?

MG Bryan wrote: A support group for kids that listen to Disney music and cut their hair like Justin Bieber? That is what you're looking for right?

I think it's called glee club.

It's your kid's way of rebelling.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

LOL. This thread title is spot-on. Hilarious.

At least you're a relatively cool dad. More geek-chic, but certainly passable. Much cooler than the dudes in dad jeans and white sneakers, for sure.

Your kid will be just fine.

Drop the clutch, smoke the tires, and cackle like a mad man

he needs a buzzcut or flat top haircut and a pack of cigs

Parenting, youre doing it right...

Dont change a thing. Youre dad probably liked zeplin and Clapton, and didnt understand all this "metal eeka" and "roses and guns" you were into in the early 80s. Your boy wont understand why your grandkids like for their hair to glow and observe their music by having it sent directly to their brains from their integrated digital communication cyborg bio-hand...he'll ask what was wrong with the 2tb iDrone he had when he was in college...the point is, its always the same, just the calendar changes. So long as he is happy, and a successful, non-fellon, everything will be ok.

Listen carefully- you could BE Justin Bieber, and your kids will be mortified by you. Its true, its right, and all of human nature requires it.

Thats why i'm easily outraged by what my kids do. They don't have to go too far to "shock" me.

I'm probably wrong, but I was waaay more bad than my kids have ever been. /Puts on blinders/

Ha! I go out of my way to mortify my kids. You don't need help, you need to do it more often. A reality check never hurt anyone.

Wow! My girls are 6½ and 9 and when I pick them I MUST be driving the race car (Street Touring FX16). When they get in the car I hear some of the other kids say 'There's the race car'. Those kids then got into their Dad's RX8. lol

My kid is listening to Pink Floyd, I set her to running down Doors tracks etc, she wants me to hurry up with making the buddy pegs etc so I can pick her up on the tracker. I guess she's gonna turn out all right.

I can't wait. will have numbers on the side of whatever car I take my kid to school in. IT WILL HAPPEN.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

You should be mortifying them more. It shows you love them.

So, it's summer of 1983. The DC hardcore punk band in which I'm the drummer is playing a Sunday hardcore matinee at CBGB in NYC. We've got lots of time to kill so we're walking around St. Marks Place going to Trash & Vaudeville and Bleeker Bob's records and such. We run across a punk couple - both perfectly attired in full-on British '77 style: Boy of London bondage pants, painted, studded jacket, liberty spikes, huge pink mowhawk, the whole deal. They look spectacular. They're pushing one of those folding strollers in which is their toddler, attired to match them. They're pulling a crowd who are all "Ohhhh! That's sooo cute!". We get to talking to them, and the guy reveals the plan:

"We're gonna make him dress like this, and eventually he'll rebel and run away from home and go to law school and become a yuppie and then he can support us when we get old"

It's normal. No matter what I do my kids (14 and 11) are mortified, but especially when I tell them everytime LMFAO's "Sexy and I know it" song comes on that they're playing my song

Honestly, they're gonna look at you like you're a loser now, but down the road they're gonna realize how cool you really were.

My two year old watches monster trucks with me, and dances to slipknot.

Yup.

In reply to Marty!:

I wonder what one googles when looking for that image...

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

I just googles:

"Picture,Grassroots Motorsports Staff, summer picnic"

Marty! wrote: In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker: I just googles: "Picture,Grassroots Motorsports Staff, summer picnic"

funny....I did google that..... for this result:

He'll eventually realize that girls like guys that don't look like every other guy, and he'll quickly change his ways.

Somehow, we ended up being the "cool" parents of our kids' peers. Not really sure how that happened???