I confess, yea, there is a misunderstanding (sometimes) between generations. A new mindset list like the Beloit College List is therefore very handy as it explains

Most students entering college for the first time this fall [...] were born in 1992.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. [...]
7. Caramel macchiato and venti half-caf vanilla latte have always been street corner lingo. [...]
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. [...]
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. [...]
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church. [...]
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. [...]

Maybe I should reserve some time to rewrite that in German with my children, yea, yea.