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Kenzi Enright's dad, Riley, has been getting together with the same group of guys every Friday night for years.
Neither of them ever expected that the meetups, officially known as "Board Meetings," would eventually make them both Internet-famous.
One night in late 2022, Kenzi's dad invited her out with the boys and caught her off guard when he handed her a printed agenda full of discussion topics for the evening.
50 years later, she's still got it.
We’ve had quite a few stories of older women shattering the glass ceiling of beauty standards, showing us that a few wrinkles and gray hairs do not make a woman inherently less attractive or glamorous.
In fact, the opposite is often true. For with these markers of age comes wisdom, sovereignty, and the kind of confidence that can only be granted through experience. All of these are sexy things.
All this to say, anytime there is a story of an older woman challenging societal norms simply by being their fabulous selves, we think it’s a story worth sharing. And this one certainly fits the bill, with its own special flavor of grandma-grandson wholesomeness.
“The curriculum is insane for elementary school kiddos. They have absolutely lost their childhood.”
It’s nothing new for parents to lament their kid’s ever growing list of school requirements. From piles of homework to getting graded for school supplies, the pressures seem to be ot only racking up over time, but spreading to younger and younger grades.
And it’s not just parents who have noticed the shift. Recently, longtime kindergarten teacher Ms. Kelli, of the TikTok account @the_wondermint, reflected on how different it is for students at even an introductory level.
At some point he turns into a southern grandpa,
Gen Z has their own slang that seems to have a life of it's own. Americans hear the popular phrases so often that it can be easy to forget that not every teen and young adult knows all the lingo. But Robert Irwin, the late Steve Irwin's son, was interviewed for Pedestrian TV where they asked him to guess American Gen Z slang.
It turned into this chaotically silly exchange as Irwin repeated the popular words and phrases in his thick Australian accent. Something about an Aussie saying "that's cap" just sounds like it's not supposed to go together. The 20-year-old himself couldn't contain his laughter throughout the whole interview realizing that he didn't know as much as he thought he should as part of the Gen Z generation.