Grandma Dancing To LMFAO: Seniors Getting In On Internet Action

The Huffington Post Canada   First Posted: 01/06/12 02:43 PM ET Updated: 01/08/12 09:53 AM ET

Grandma Lmfao

The days of bonding with your grandparents while drinking tea and eating homemade cookies seem to be long gone. Grandmas and grandpas alike are taking a page out of their grandchildren's books (or should we say iPads?) and embracing technology.

First it was the cute elderly couple, Rita and Frank, who couldn't figure out how to take a picture on their new Macbook. Now the Internet's new up and coming star is YouTube user Adam Forgie's 90-year-old grandma.

She's legally blind, has severe macular degeneration and is hard of hearing. But when it comes to impressing people with her rocking dance moves, none of those things slow her down.

Is this the new frontier of grandparent-grandchildren relations? It might be a step in the right direction, considering dancing to songs like LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" keeps one active no matter your age.

A recent Globe and Mail article touched on the idea of intergenerational learning -- people of all ages learning together and from each other. Twice a week, a B.C. retirement home opens its doors to kindergarteners, allowing them to interact with the elderly.

Grandparents have a lot to offer youth when it comes to learning about life experiences. Now it seems like they're also willing to take a walk their grandchildren's shoes, one dance move at a time.

WATCH: Grandparents getting groovy on YouTube:

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This video of a boy and his backup dancer grandma shaking it to Tyga's "Rack City" has already hit more than 1 million views on YouTube. Don't you wish your grandma was as cool as her?
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The days of bonding with your grandparents while drinking tea and eating homemade cookies seem to be long gone. Grandmas and grandpas alike are taking a page out of their grandchildren's books (or sho...
The days of bonding with your grandparents while drinking tea and eating homemade cookies seem to be long gone. Grandmas and grandpas alike are taking a page out of their grandchildren's books (or sho...
 
 
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01:27 PM on 01/21/2012
In that first video does grandma know he's saying the "B" word.. If that were my grammy she'd want to wash my mouth out with soap!
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01:41 PM on 01/09/2012
Damn, but that was a looooooooong four minutes. That said, you shake that money maker, Granny!
12:21 PM on 01/07/2012
As far as the grandson with his grandma and Rag City ... this is ridicule not cute and not funny. The second generation in this collaboration needs to talk to their boy about respect and character. Grandma needs to review her tenets for being a "senior" person deserving of respect. Grace and dignity may be old fashioned words -- but they still prevail. I visited a nursing home once where the aids and nurses were encouraging female dementia patient doing her version of a suggestive dance. I cried in my car.
Elmwoodmac
No matter where you go, there you are!
12:54 PM on 01/07/2012
My god your a wet blanket. I feel sorry for you.
Elmwoodmac
No matter where you go, there you are!
01:03 PM on 01/07/2012
Sorry, should be "you're" a wet blanket. Can't find the place where you edit your comments.
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01:45 PM on 01/09/2012
You've got to be kidding. Just because some of us have passed the age where we're considered "old" doesn't mean we've suddenly become humorless prudes. I'm not offended by the song, or by the kid or by the granny joining in the fun. I think it's GREAT that the granny and the kid have a relationship where they embrace each other instead of finding a thousand ways the other is different and somehow wrong because of it.

Ugly, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I'd suggest saving your tears for something truly tragic.
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Jake Thomas
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09:31 PM on 01/06/2012
Was that the "LIndy Hop"?
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Toronto7
Spiritually impoverished know nothing of dreams
09:30 PM on 01/06/2012
Sorry but she looks way too much like the Martians in "Mars Attacks" Just saying...
04:56 PM on 01/06/2012
it's macular degeneration .. not muscular.

however .. this grandma rocks!! you go girl!!
04:35 PM on 01/06/2012
Fantastic!
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LivelyLexie
Don't panic.
03:45 PM on 01/06/2012
lol this is so cute. Go, Grandma!
03:17 PM on 01/06/2012
Precious and priceless!!
03:04 PM on 01/06/2012
That's my grandmother!! (The LMFAO dancer)
03:08 PM on 01/06/2012
And you misspelled my YouTube user name: it's "adamforgie" not "adamfrogie" :)
11:37 AM on 01/07/2012
God love her!! My face hurts from smiling! Awesome!
evecaren
Every cloud has a silver lining
09:11 AM on 01/08/2012
Your grandmother looks like she's having so much fun while she's dancing and
it's good exercise. Enjoyed this video immensely.