Recently, I saw an article about the new words that have been added to the Dictionary. Among the terms was “dad dancing,” which is defined by Wicktionary as “The making of embarrassing flamboyant dance moves to pop music by middle-aged men.”

H-m-m, I thought. Middle aged men—that means Baby Boomers, right?

What a revelation! Up till now, I thought that we Baby Boomers had the market cornered on being hip, cool and trend setters. I was shocked to find that we have become the thing we feared most, out dated fuddy-duddies. Yes, Baby Boomers, we are officially uncool. Never mind that we started the Free Speech movement, the Save the Earth Movement and moved politics to the left. Never mind that we were the demographic everyone wanted to cater too.

Now when we dance, we embarrass our children—and they can’t wait until we all leave the wedding reception (so we can be in bed by 10 p.m.) to play their music—you know, the music that hurts our aging ears.

Because I live in an active adult community (read aging Baby Boomers), I still go to dances where the music is from 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and yes, we all “dad dance.” And we have a really good time doing it! And no one is embarrassed. In fact, we think we’re still cool, even with our sagging chin lines, pot bellies and sensible shoes.

When I read that definition of dad dancing, my first reaction was, when did my generation become uncool? And then I realized, cool is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

So dad dance all you want, Baby Boomers. Youth is fleeting and soon those who coined the term dad dancing will become uncool, too.