Your kids are worried that you are out of your element.

Having to tell their own friends that you are on Tinder is unsettling.

Your kids don’t want to be in situations where their friends poke fun at them that their mom is on Tinder.

Tinder is a dating app that is primarily used by the younger generation.

The truth is, one or more of your kids has hopped on Tinder at some point in time too.

If they are adolescents or under age, one or more of them has been curious enough to log into Tinder pretending to be someone older just to check it out.

If not your kids, someone in their friend group has had an encounter, no matter how minor, on Tinder.

The younger generation are far more tech-savvy than the older generation.

Tinder has a reputation for being a hookup dating app.

The fact that you are on a dating app alone is anxiety-inducing, let alone that you are on dating app with a reputation for hookups.

This exacerbates their dire emotional state even more.

Your kids believe that you are better off finding a partner through traditional means such as through work, friends, the church, etc.

They don’t believe that you are suited for online dating.

That is what the young people do.

There is anxiety within them that a friend or acquaintance is logging into Tinder one day and seeing your dating profile.

This is embarrassing to them.

They don’t want to have to explain why their “old” mom is on a dating platform that is primarily used by younger people.

It’s not that they don’t want you to find a partner and be happy.

They are worried about the means by which you are doing it.

It isn’t out of the question that one or more of your kids has a profile on Tinder at this moment, or has considered creating one.

If Tinder is a platform that they are currently using or see themselves using in the near future, they don’t want to have to deal with the awkwardness of swiping through dating profiles one day and coming across your dating profile.

Eww!

Not mom!

Suddenly, they are logging off the dating platform faster than their fingers are capable of moving.

Yes, much of this is anger that your kids have demonstrated against what you have done in making a Tinder profile, is about themselves.

The feeling of vulnerability that comes with knowing that their friends are poking fun of them about this in the foreseeable future.

The anxiety of seeing your dating profile while they are privately using the dating app.

Knowing that you aren’t tech-savvy and concluding that you are out of your element.

All of this makes them mad.

So, they take it out on you.

Finally, they worry that your naivete with the online hemisphere is sure to lead you into the arms of a psycho.

A dude that has nothing but the worse intentions, but fenagles you into thinking that he is the perfect match for you.

Your kids have watched their fair share of true crime documentaries about online predators.

Given how innocent you are in the world of cyberspace, they are fearful that you have no inkling of how to navigate through it safely.