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Seven baffling slang terms your kids are using right now
One day, my son Owen was telling me about about a video he’d watched featuring an alien that he called a “scuffed Shrek.”
For whatever reason at the time, Shrek memes were big among the junior high set. I think they may still be. I don’t know.
Anyway, it led me down a path of discovering random slang terms that kids are using on the schoolyard today and what exactly they’re supposed to mean.
Owen’s been looking for ways to earn an allowance since he had to stop flyer delivery due to his competitive sports schedule, so I decided to give him a taste of the freelance life.
His first piece, Top 5 novel series, ranked by my 12-year-old, is a great holiday gift guide for people with voracious young readers in their life!
For his second assignment, I asked him to come up with the top 5–10 random slang terms kids are using today, so parents might understand what their children are actually saying.
So without furhter ado, here are the Top 7 current terms, by Owen.
Seven baffling expressions your kids are using right now
Have your kids ever said something you’re completely baffled by? Did you think, “what the heck does that mean?”
