Let's just agree to disagree. A lot.

As much as I dislike the saying, I've learned to use it more often than not since becoming a stepmother to two teenagers.  

It amazes me how much teens know these days.  They must have vastly increased the education curriculum these last 20 years because I don't remember knowing absolutely EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING when I was 11 or 15 years old.  I'm just so impressed, er, baffled by the opinions of my 11 year old stepdaughter on all matters I just had to share.  Think I'm exaggerating? Let me give you an example..

I was driving my stepdaughter to a playhouse rehearsal last week when Duran Duran came on the radio.  I'll give her credit, the girl can sing.  It's when she insisted they were an all-girl band I had to object.  Now, I'm a 70s child and a bit 80s obsessed so I knew this was in fact an "all-boy" band, for lack of a better term.  I admit I didn't know every band member's names, though Simon Le Bon with his mullet was a major crush so I proceeded to let this young girl, born in 2001 btw, know this.
Instead of accepting the information presented to her, she outright says "no it's a girl band."  To which I tell her how I saw them in concert years ago and there were no girls on stage, and so unless the band underwent serious surgery since... the melodic voices she was happily singing along with were of the opposite gender.  To which she just shrugged saying "don't think so".

As much as I feel compelled to show her the albums, yes albums!, and prove my right-ness, I know it won't matter to her.  So I just shake my head and laugh it off.

Let's agree to disagree.

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