Role Reversal

It seems that role reversal is happening sooner than is to be expected in my home. Nope, nobody is putting me in diapers yet! It's just that my "young adult" daughter has taken on a motherly attitude towards me that is sweet, but at the same time, disconcerting. Over the past year, she has told me, on numerous occasions, "Oh mom, you are so funny" in the same tone one would use to describe a quirky senior citizen. Now, she likes to tell me that her friends think I'm "cute" (what, am I four years old?) and that my wardrobe is "stylish" (kindly omitting "for a 40 yr. old," I'm sure).

The latest incident involved my daughter catching me indulging in my favorite guilty pleasure......reality TV. She walked in on me watching "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," a show that she has never partaken in. Her first reaction was, "Mom, what are you watching?" At first glance, this show is all about the big booty of Kim K. and the arguments she has with her sisters. On second glance, you will find this show to be one big dysfunctional family circus. Therefore, watching this show makes my own extended family look quite normal and I revel in that fact. But back to my daughter's impression of my TV viewing habits..........

Trying to pass the buck, as I always do, I responded, "well, Dad watches this show too!" Daughter found this to be humorous, noting aloud that Dad has always been "into brunettes." (To be honest, Dad really is more fixated with his Olympic hero, Bruce Jenner, and how he could have married into this mess). Well, the next thing you know, Mama Kardashian is telling her own daughter not to cry over the tabloids getting ahold of nude sex photos she'd taken when she was 17 because, "Everyone has sex with their high school boyfriend........everyone takes photos of it."
Well, this shocked the heck out of my sensible daughter and now she has something else to poke fun at me with........that mom watches trashy TV shows when no one else is around.