10 Issues Solely Gen X Mothers Would Say – The Mother Beat

Born between 1965 and 1984(ish)? In that case, welcome fellow Era Xer! In actual fact, I used to be born smack dab in the midst of what I take into account to be essentially the most completely tubular — and inexplicably neglected — era. To assist have a good time all issues Gen X, as we should always do extra typically, listed below are 10 issues that solely we Gen X mothers would in all probability say (in addition to “gag me with a spoon”):

#1 — “Again in my day, we didn’t have playlists — we had mixtapes. AND THEY WERE AWESOME. A lot extra private.”

#2 — “No, you don’t want one other sport in your iPad. The one video games I had for my Atari had been Frogger and Centipede, and I survived in some way.”

#three — “I can’t imagine we misplaced Prince and George Michael in the identical yr. *SOB* There goes MY childhood.”

#four — “We didn’t have caller ID once I was a child, so we needed to *69 folks.”

#5 — “In the event you assume Harry Kinds seems to be good with a popped collar, it’s best to have seen Rob Lowe!”

#6 — “I bear in mind when MTV was truly a music video channel.”

#7 — “You assume your wi-fi connection is sluggish? Ha! We used to have a dial-up that made a horrible screeching noise whereas it took, like, ten years to attach!”

#eight — “You name that haircut the ‘Kristen Stewart? Pssshhh. It’s the ‘Sinead O’Connor!’”

#9 — “You’ll thank me sooner or later for slathering you in sunscreen. You see these wrinkles? Two phrases: TANNING OIL.”

#10 — “New Children on the Block had been our One Route.”