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There have been generation gaps every time the newest generation develops the ability to think for themselves. It is not a modern phenomenon, it has nothing to do with the “lighting pace of life” today. I put that in quotes because again, every generation has thought that. I remember this wonderful cartoon with two little boys riding their bicycles - the kind with the huge front wheel - and one says to the other, “Does living in the era of breath-taking speed ever scare you?”
No adolescent believes their parents were every adolescents themselves. Their parents have never felt what they are feeling, could have no way of relating to them, etc. As a substitute teacher in high school, it cracked me up the things the kids thought they could put over on me. I actually said once, “You guys, do you think I wasn’t in high school? Do you think I haven’t tried these things?” But apparently, that’s exactly what they thought. We used to joke about it in the teachers’ lounge.
I remember when I was about 8 and my mom suggested I get my dad to check my math homework because he was very good at math. But Dad didn’t get it. “No, that’s not how we do it.” He said, “Okay, how would your teacher do it?” Once I walked him through one of the problems, he got it instantly, and then checked the rest of my work, finding any mistakes the same way my teacher would have.
What I remember is how shocked I was. Since he didn’t learn math the same way I did, I figured he was hopelessly out of touch and of no help to me. It never occurred to me he could catch up that easily, that the concepts of basic math hadn’t changed, it was just the approach.
And then, because technology does speed along and those who used to be on the cutting edge just don’t care anymore about being up-to-the-minute, the kids think we are hopeless. We can’t possibly understand what they’re dealing with.
And to a degree, they are right. We do not understand why they are so attached to their phones for communication. To us, you want to talk, pick up the phone – the actual telephone part – and call. Or better yet, walk over. Parents and grandparents really don’t understand why taking their phone away from a week is so distressing to them. We don’t get that this is their connection to the world because it wasn’t ours. Our phones are phones. It is hard for us to really get how completely isolated they are without them now.
So, it’s things like that. But mostly, it’s that kids will never believe that we used to be kids.