It could be the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber, a movie, kids show, clothes, whatever. Your child opened itself up and showed you something that they were genuinely excited about and you mocked it. And when I say *you* I mean that *I* did this. Me. The writer of this blog (I will probably do this a lot, but not admit that it’s me doing it).
My son does this ridiculously adorable thing that he calls the “thumb bump” where he essentially makes a thumbs-up and then wants you to do the same and he presses his thumb against yours. If you see teenagers starting to do this, it started with my son – I’m not kidding – his babysitter is starting to spread it around. NOW, what happened was that a teenager took that thumb-bump and turned it into an intricate hand-shake for him that was: high five, then fist-bump, then thumb-bump. I think fist-bumps are kind of stupid. I’m sure that you could very well argue the virtues of it – it’s probably more sanitary, etc… Either way, as my kid is showing me this, I start to mock the fist-bump section, telling him he shouldn’t do fist-bumps. Now, he doesn’t react, he keeps going (thankfully), but my wife got up in my shit about it (and for good reason – it was an extremely shitty thing to do). So that’s the lesson for today – if your kid does something that they think is cool that you think is lame, shut the fuck up about it and let them enjoy their moment in the sun (you can always mock them via your social media of choice later).
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