priceless? better than priceless

Kids these days. They like to listen to their iPods or cell phones with music in them and shut them selves to the world. I once won an iPad mini in a contest. The moment they announced a contest in one of the jaunts, I knew that iPad was mine. I went home and Jasmine did not want the mini and Jispa preferred a portable iPod. So we went to our neighborhood shop and exchanged the same for an iPod.

Jispa hardly ever gets her iPod to play with. We don’t let her play too much on it and we don’t let her listen too much music on it. We are really bad ass parents. Seriously I think we are irritating but I think with only one kid we want all the time we get with the kid to be great and hence we are scared of losing her to the device. But still I think she gets some time with it. Especially vacations. Plus we have another issue. We don’t have too much music. At least not the music that a teenager would want to listen to, to load onto the iPod. So after a point of time, there was not much use for the iPod as such.

Jispa kept wondering how to get her music. I told her to get it loaded in by her cousin brother. That’s where you get all your vice in life from – cousins. Also Jispa said she wanted new headphones. I for one, couldn’t understand why would she want headphones. She has the great ones that come with the iPod from Apple. These are phenomenal in ear ones with superior design and engineering. She gave some answer which I refused to even listen – but yes I understood – the kid wants new headphones – the ones that all kids end up wearing. I think it’s fashionable to have these big ones on your head. You see them at all the swim meets. That’s the new cool. Of course Jispa believes that she wants them as the in-ear ones hurt her ears and that fashion has nothing to do with it. Who was I to judge.

So I promised her that once she gets her songs, I will buy her a head set. After she got her songs loaded, I started scouting around for decent headsets. I had weird problems to content with. These headsets can get really expensive. I don’t mind getting her one but then managing them and ensuring you don’t forget them anywhere and then taking care of them etc would have been a huge issue.  So expensive ones area  problem, especially if you have anal parents. I prefer giving her something that I don’t mind her losing so that I don’t lose my mind. Second – the big bulky ones with cover her ear completely and will block out all noise. That’s another problem. Remember what I said – we don’t want to lose her completely. So if we give her something that will block out all noise, it would create another set of issues from a parents point of view. Now for Jispa’s point of view – I can’t give her something that’s not cool. No shitty brands would help. Kids look at each other and are hugely influenced by the brands. I am quite sure that a 13 year old can make out the differences between different headsets if not for the brands. Also the headsets with the right brands look cool on the head! So now we have the variables – over the head earphones, nice brand, cool design, relatively cheap, not completely covering the ear. And voila – here you are the amazing JBL headphones costing two thousand bucks available at flipkart for 700 bucks. Light weight, decent brand and not too big. They look cool as well.

When I gave Jispa the surprise…. When she saw the ear phones – she smiled. Wow getting your teenage to smile after you get her stuff – that was priceless. Feeling happy and not broke after your teenage daughter smiles – better than priceless!