Being yourself but also up on things.

Be yourself and age appropriate while you are keeping up with the youth culture. You need to be yourself and they need you to be different from them.

• Dress like your peers not theirs.
  
• Know their lingo but avoid using it unless it is in common usage. They want to have their own language that is not known by adults. You need to know it so you are aware of problems and issues, but pretend not to know their more esoteric language. (recognize that some slang, even if it has a raunchy origin may not be viewed as meaning what it used to mean. Don't worry about it.)
  
• As much as I missed it, I stopped dancing in their presence, since they find “old people” (over 20) dancing as being embarrassing and inappropriate.
  
• It is another topic I'll addressed, but it is ok to accept, even like some of their music, but if it appears that your taste and their line up exactly, they won't like it and it may suggest that you don't have any taste of your own.