The worst thing you can do to your children is to “be cool” as a teen.

You say, what?

“Being cool” means you will be immortalized in pictures sporting the “coolest” fashions of your teenager years. And one day your children and grandchildren will groan in embarrassment at how “cool” you look in those pictures which, of course, will be the opposite of “cool” by the time they look at them.

[Here is where you throw up on the screen pictures of members of your congregation looking ridiculous in what were the “fashions” of their teen-age years. Or just show pictures of people in these fashions. . . Or if you don’t use screens, paint verbal word pictures that demonstrate how the fashions and fads of one generation become the embarrassments of the next . . .Or you could even do a fashion parad…