My Parents Were Awesome and Yours Were Too
It’s a rite of passage for teenagers to make fun of their parents, right?
As my parents (mostly my mom) likes to point out, I gave her “hell” through high school. (Although, I still disagree, having been the honor roll, Girl Scout-type who had a slightly adventurous streak.)
Now there’s a chance for parents (and their kids) to look back and joke about how cool their parents used to be, before they were parents, thanks to 26-year-old Eliot Glazer. The Brookyln-based comedian and blogger started the website MyParentsWereAwesome.com in September.
Glazer, who has family in Evanston and Highland Park, Ill., says he’s had approximately 2,200 submissions. About 250 are from Chicago.
Eliot Glazer. Photo credit: Anya Garrett
Glazer, who also works as an editor at Urlesque.com, jokes he wanted to create a “warm and fuzzy place” that wasn’t “steeped in vitriol, snark, and cynicism.”
”Plus,” he says. ”Everyone has parents and most people have pictures and like to share, so it seemed like a perfect fit.”
On the website, Glazer summarizes the idea simply:
Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome.
Anyone can submit a photo, as long as you name the people in the photo.
Check out the site. It is awesome. Just like my parents.
(See below.)
Lori & Chuck
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Love this. Snark-free zone. Yay!
My parents, who have been divorced since 1966, are talking again after many decades and it makes me really happy. I am lucky to have creative, stubborn, funny, adventurous parents as role models, both still alive and healthy. Whenever they tell me I’m a pain in the butt, I tell ‘em the apple doesn’t roll very far.
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What a beautiful way to honor parents; by realizing they were young in spirit before we were even a twinkle in their eyes and (probably
continue to be—
“awesome…just like my parents…” What a great reflection on your parents!