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b_b  ·  4453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which your parents are clued in to how different your life is from theirs

I doubt it. The technology is trivial in this story. If its not technology, then its music or clothing, or some other confounding factor. There are stories from the Middle Ages about young people wanting to marry for love, but their love is forbidden by parents for political or social reasons. Children never think their parents understand them, and parents always forget what its like to be a child. My parents had no idea what I did as an adolescent. The internet wasn't a part of my life, but it didn't change the fundamental dynamic of young-against-old. That is a story as old a fiction itself, and your kids will not want you to intrude on their social life, whether it be in physical or metaphysical space. Kids need space. Currently, they have found a new way to communicate that gives them privacy in an age where your parents will be thrown in jail for letting you go to the park by yourself. The how is trivial. The story is timeless.





user-inactivated  ·  4453 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. In the Middle Ages, when you were born, you knew what you were going to spend the rest of your life doing, because it's what your dad/mom did. Lives were a lot less complicated then, so I somewhat reject that comparison as valid.

About half of the people I mention this to align with your viewpoint, by the way. But in my opinion the internet has changed things to an extent that no technology before ever has. Think about it -- what technology has ever existed that was more or less the exclusive domain of the children? Cars? No. Radio? No. TV? No.

Just something to consider.