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You can't expect them to have the same taste, yet we've talked before about enjoying the classics with your kids.

Not necessarily the classics in the ancient Greek literature sense, but classic rock,

classic films, you know, the all-time greats. Of course, you should do this. Rock out on the way

to school, veg out over great movies. Forget what was cool when you should do this. Rock out on the way to school. Vege out over great movies.

Forget what was cool when you were a kid. Forget what's cool now. Bond over what's timeless and great.

But there's another part of this that you have to understand. Your kids are not going to have the same taste as you.

In the same interview we mentioned before with Lars Ulrich,

he talked about how he used to love going to see Pixar movies with his kids, to see the classics

like Toy Story. He was joking about how after the success of those movies, all the movie studios

decided to do basically C-minus and D-minus-level animated movies. And as a responsible parent, he said

every weekend we would go to see whatever was there. And my eight-and-five-year-old are going,

that's the best thing I've ever seen. That was even better than Monster's Inc. I'm going,

seriously? You have had a whole lifetime to develop your taste.

You know the difference between popular and pandering.

You know the difference between corporate schlock and real rock.

You know this because you've been burned, because you've seen hundreds of movies,

listened to countless albums.

You're further along on the journey.

So you're going to have to put up with some stuff, most of all

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