Things your grandchildren have to explain to you

Who Dan TDM is.

I laughed at your OP Gerispringer my grandson (8) has attempted to teach me minecraft but it remains a complete mystery to me . The girls (12 & 10) are forever showing me YouTube clips that go straight over my head . And yes they know all their names like they’re top celebrities !

This has been the conversation in our house this week.
Me to GD "is that age suitable" ?
GD to me "yes grandma it's Dan TDM", the look on my face must have said it all, she rolled her eyes and carried on.

How to use WhatsApp! And that's just for starters..........

How to use a drive through at McDonalds.

As our DGS is only nineteen months old, I asked a twelve year old neighbour who or what Dan TDM is.
She looked at me pityingly, sighed and explained that he's a 'professional gamer'(?) who appears on YouTube, has a previous incarnation as 'Diamond Minecart' and a net worth of somewhere in the region of £12.3 million quid!
Twelve million, three hundred thousand pounds!!!
£12,300,000!!!!!

I never mastered Angry Birds which a 4-year-old grandson tried to explain to me, to the amusement of all the other passengers in our train compartment. He is now 10 and far beyond me in his expertise in computer technology.

Having a 13 year old DGS I know all about Minecraft ( including Dan and Stampycat) and am shown youtube clips of all sorts of things on a regular basis.
I haven’t heard of many new groups or singers though and when asked by him which was my fave rapper said ‘Eminem’ which happily he was pleased with because he said yes, he was the best rapper of all time.

lemongrove I'm with you on the current music scene.
juggernaut thanks for the explanation of Dan TDM

Thanks from me too juggernaut

I'm told by GC TED talks are good, they have to put them on for me. I don't use the Wi as I can't cope and even my DAB radio seems beyond me most days. Spotify sounds great but I don't have it.

Instagram and WhatsApp are closed books to me but that's fine. I enjoy the immediacy of FaceBook but have many doubts about it.

My son has introduced me to Charlie Brooker's tv series Black Mirror. At my request he chooses the ones that won't upset me too much!

But I have been called 'hip hop grandma' so must be getting something right!

Almost 3 yr old DGS tells me the names of all his dinosaurs!

How to make slime.

Oh yes, slime!! Can't understand the craze. My kitchen was full of slime makers at Christmas!

I now know the names of all the Night Garden characters thanks to 15 month old DGD. The books are pored over regularly! DGSs insist on showing me their ‘great goals’ on FIFA (grandma you must see this! Really it’s a game !)
Do enjoy going to cinema with both DGSs - I like sci-fi type films so I am cool because of that (and none of the adults like them apart from me)
I hadn’t heard of Dan TDM either Juggernaut- shall drop that into next conversation with them and prepare for them to be impressed ?

The difference between a Viking Weekend, and a Viking Weekender !

I entered a competition, hoping to win tickets to a two day learned symposium on Norse history.

What I won was tickets to something the Grandchildren explained was a form of Heavy Metal music... worse than Death Metal... called Viking Metal.

The reasons they gave me for not going included, no loos, no waiter service for my gin and tonics, the hideous way I dance and my wardrobe not measuring up to the Death Goth dress code.

My GC are still a little young to teach me anything, although they are just getting into Minecraft. I am, however, a very regular YouTube user. It’s amazing. If I want to know how to do anything I look on YouTube. I ‘subscribe’ to several channels as some really interesting people and subjects on there. I also enjoy Ted Talks. Come to think of it, I rarely watch TV!
My daughter put a photo on Facebook at Xmas of me on my phone putting in things to record on our TV on my VirginTV app.

I was recently shown how to 'Dab' (pointing both arms out diagonally upwards to one side) by my DGS then immediately told off by my DGD because it's 'not cool' anymore....... I never even had the chance to find out in what situation I may have Dabbed - maybe at the next U3A meeting to show that I didn't have arthritis?

I'm now learning a dance called the 'floss' which is like drying your 'nether regions' with a towel after a bath

ps I know all about DanTDM on you tube. My DH calls him 'that blue haired shouty man' and turns of his hearing aids.

What a great thread. My dgs is only 11 months so I look forward to learning new things from him sometime

My young granddaughter does the self service for me at the supermarket. I keep getting nasty messages about the 'bagging area' when I try to do it.

She is also a bit of an entrepreneur, making slime and selling it! I watched something about slime on BBC news yesterday and still don't understand why it is so popular.

Right now I could do with a grandchild to explain the intricacies of Facebook to me. I am usually able to find my way around computers and the internet but Facebook, instagram (or is it instegram?) etc. defeat me.

Oh and help with my apple I-phone, for even with the user's manual to hand there are things there that defeat me too.

And a nice adult GS with the strength to lug two old batteries out of our boat, fetch new ones and lug them down into the engine-room. I can't do it, and DH mustn't on account of his broken, but mercifully, now mending collar bone.

DanTdm is a Tuber Bore ....his voice drones on and on like my old Geography teacher who put many people to sleep in our school! But Goldengirl ....WhatsApp is the best ever messaging service AND you can send voice messages. Just hold down the mic icon and talk...when you finished talking just take finger of mic and touch ‘send’. My family loves it And you can have family conversation. Brilliant. On the subject of grandkids teaching us stuff....my daughter was asking me if I wanted to accompany her and kids to see a film and I said I’d love to go to the ‘pictures’ with them..... I don’t think they’ve stopped laughing yet! My 10 year old said “were you born in the last century nanny’? ....well “yes’’ actually!

Sue01 you had me in fits with the Viking weekend confusions? it’s exactly the sort of thing I would have done too! A Viking history weekend sounds loverly? the heavy metal gig not so much ??‍♀️???
My DGS (7) showed me a couple of years ago how to play Minecraft, although I am still rubbish!
I used to love playing The SIMS on DD2’s console when she still lived at home but had to stop as I found I spent one weekend in my dressing gown hunched over the console ?
I am fine with WhatsApp and messenger and use these daily to chat with the 3 DC who all live in different towns to me. I have a twitter account and Instagram but don’t use these very often as life’s too short? I do know about various YouTube stars via DGS 1 he shows me two he likes called Pat and Jen who play Minecraft and others? I am ok on music but I can’t stand most urban music such as rap so I lean towards the Ed Sheran type of music! The 3 DGD are not in to YouTube so it’s all been Disney films when I see them and much less technology which is lovely.